Should I follow the HVs advice and give up the lunchtime bf?
My dd is 8 months and eating some kind of meal three times a day, although not vast amounts (e.g. breakfast = a third of a weatabix or tablespoon of readybrek with milk & fruit; lunch = a scrambled egg, tiny bit of toast, a peach; dinner: half a potato, a few cubes of lentils stew mixed with fruit puree, a tablespoon of baby rice mixed with milk & fruit puree). She bf four times a day (early morning, after lunch, late afternoon and after dinner). HV says I should stop bf her at lunchtime to encourage her to increase her solids, but most of the stuff I read says it is the milk that is important up to one year and all the solids are just 'tastes' . Who to believe?
I'm going to have to leave her during the day (for the first time ) with dh for three days next week and have been trying to feed her milk in a doidy cup at lunchtimes in 'training' for this as she has never taken a bottle. But although she can drink from it, she doesn't take very much milk and I generally relent and bf her . Today, though I just gave her the cup and she didn't seem bothered about a bf. Is there a danger that she'll end up getting less milk than she needs??