Weaning sos!!

[Ezmum19]

Sooooo... I'm in need of some help. My little boy turned 6 months last weekend. He is a big healthy boy drinking 4-5 8oz bottles a day! I am really struggling on how to wean him and balancing bottles and solids.

At the moment he wakes around 7:30 and has a bottle at 8. Then a bottle at 11:30 ish , then another at 2:30 ish and then I introduce dinner at 5. We used to give him rusk mixed with boiled water as he became more hungry and eat that fine. We have been giving him veg / veg and fruit combo for dinner for about 2 weeks. He enjoys playing with the food and holding the spoon in his mouth and licking, he will not allow me to feed him AT ALL! He shuts his mouth and turns his head. But we have found he will take food straight from one of those pouches!! lol

I need some help on how to introduce other meals and how to cut down on bottles. If any of you could let me in on your secrets!!

I would let him guide you! I let my little one reduce his feeds himself. I stared giving him breakfast with a bottle after, after a couple weeks he wasn't drinking any of the bottle. At that point I introduced dinner with a bottle after and again he eventually stopped having that bottle. He just drank less and less as time went on and his solids were filling him up more as he started actually eating. Milk should still be his main source of nutrition until he turns 1

@sweetpea2811 makes sense. I just get concerned that he will still drink the bottle and the meal! 😱 I guess I will just keep going and it will fall into place! Thanks

Definitely keep going! My little boy was having five or six 10oz bottles a day and by 10 months he was down to two (afternoon and bedtime) and then by 1 he was down to just a bedtime bottle. He'll figure it out himself, babies are good at regulating their food intake!

@sweetpea2811 oh brilliant. He is already sort of refusing his 5:30 pm bottle after his dinner. he has around 3 oz water with his dinner though.

There aren't many extra calories in a few spoonfuls of veg puree.... He needs the milk still

At 6 months he should be drinking the bottle and then having food as well between 30 mins to an hour later.

Just take his lead. I'm not a fan of BLW, but it sounds like it might be the most appropriate for your son. Mine has no interest in feeding himself at all, it's amazing how different they all are!

Food is not for fun before they're 1, they should be taking a lot of their calories from their meals by 9 months. This is a very dangerous phrase. But he should wean the bottles down naturally - my son was on 5x9oz bottles when we started weaning, which he cut down to 19oz a day by the time he was 1. Just keep on offering him food, I started with lunch, then offered dinner after about a month, then added in breakfast.

@sewinginscotland oh that's really helpful to know. Best response ✌🏼 We're getting there now! We have been introducing lots of different things. He loooooves a petis flou🙈 he seems to be responding better to being fed from a spoon now. We will introduce breakfast next week. Any ideas on how and what he could try for breakfast , apart from baby porridge .... 🙄

Weetabix! DS still loves the stuff. Let it sit a while so it goes all mushy. That's what we started on. I only bought one pack of baby porridge, it's weird stuff. I just blitzed oats in a blender so they were finer. You can also use ready brek. Scrambled egg could be fun to try.

If you're ready to introduce finger food, toast is a good start too. DS just used to suck on it until it went to mush.