Feeling so stressed about weaning :(

[Bleepers]

My baby is 8 months and I started weaning her at 5.5 months. It's always been a bit hit and miss but feels like it's gone downhill in the last 6 weeks or so. I just dread meal times now as they can be so frustrating and demoralising.

I guess I'm asking - how much should she be eating?! At breakfast she might have a mouthful or two of toast and 1/2 a weetabix, for dinner she will have a decent portion of something (provided she likes it!) but lunch is a disaster where she'll have a courgette stick and sweet potato wedge, if I'm lucky.

I don't really know what I'm doing wrong - it just never seems to click and it is making me blue. I don't even really know what I'm asking. What is normal at this age? What could I improve to help her have more lunch?

Sorry to be a bore, just feeling mis.

Em so mines only has two meals a day and it’s like 6 spoons of porridge at meal one and something like a few wedges of mashed sweet potato at meal two. You sound like you are doing really well actually.

Food before one is just for fun as they say. DS absolutely refused porridge for breakfast so I got him some tiny ball cereal. Think it was organix... He had finger food for lunch, toast, melty puffs etc and then a pouch of Ella's kitchen for dinner.

He was fussy here and there but by a year he was eating everything I was. He's two now and literally eats whatever you put in front of him. Just keep trying different things, you can't really go wrong 😊

I have an 8 month old too and up until the last week she has completely refused any food whatsoever!
The most she will have is a few spoonfuls of something at breakfast and lunch.
I completely empathise with how you feel...I find it very stressful too!!
Now I just leave her to it. If she doesn’t I just try to not get worked up about it.
Offered her breakfast and lunch today and she didn’t eat anything!

I agree, all sounds pretty good to me, at 8m she still gets all she actually needs from her milk- so what she's eating sounds ideal. I did baby led weaning with mine so by 8m they were only just starting to actually properly get anything down them. As long as she's learning to eat and is a healthy weight I wouldn't worry at all about the quantity- sounds like you are doing a great job!

Thank you so much to everyone for your encouragement. I think it's hard to know what's "normal" sometimes and it gets me so stressed. I feel very reassured x