All you BLW, give me some advice/reassurance please!

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Hi there

Been to the paediatrician this morning for vaccinnations. Had dd weighed (6 months). She has dropped on the centile line and he wants me to UP her solids. Didn't mention for one second that I was BLWing her. (In Singapore). I said she enjoyed food, and fingerfood and ate the 'equivalent' of a few spoons a meal. One or two meals a day.

Anyway, he worried me about the weight, SO, i bought some baby rice! eeek. I didn't want to go down the spoon-feeding route so just let her play with it, quite thick, and gave her a spoon with some on the end. She devoured it actually, and stuck the spoon in her mouth no problem. But what am I supposed to do? Do I just carry on 100% BLW and hope she starts to take more. She's only just 6 months fgs and just started to eat. Or do I do a mix?

He said, and I laughed inside, that solid food was 3 times more calorific than milk!!!!!!!! pffft. BUT, if I am mixing babyrice in with what is actually a bottle of formula it IS more calorific than milk yes? (am aware that a pureed carrot is far less than a bottle of milk!)

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aitch? pretty please, anyone?

would you have thought there was a problem if she hadn't been weighed? i mean is she skin and bone? or is she actually perfectly fine, getting on with learning to eat, taking her milk, generally happy and doing well? the centiles get soooo many people worried, but you know they are just about averages. ooodles of babies don't follow an exact curve. did he say how many centiles she has dropped? i assume she hasn't actually lost weight?

no i'm not otherwise worried. she isn't skin and bone, yet she isn't a chunky monkey either. i would say she was just right, but then i would! she hasn't lost weight. last month she was 6.1kg, this month she is 6.54kg. she is growing in length too. she is as happy as anything, always smiling, takes b/milk well and often and one bottle of formula a day.
she's just dropped from 50th to 25th centile in one month. guess i find it odd as dd1 was on 75th centile from birth onwards - until i stopped having her weighed at, say 18months.
i have nothing to worry about do i?
thanks

Agree with ruddy, as long as she is not losing weight and is happy on her milk etc then nothing to worry about. She still has plenty of time to get used to eating and who knows, in a few weeks she could be wolfing down the food.. that's the thing with blwing, its the babies who lead us not us who lead the weaning.

Don't panic you sound like you are doing just fine

thanks very much. have relaxed a bit now. she's not feeling too good today - following her vaccinations, I guess. So today hasn't been in the mood for sitting and playing with food anyway. I have just bf her. Bless. I'm determined not to spoonfeed. I don't want another fussy eater - and thinking about it, problems started around 10 months with dd1, when she refused anything off a spoon. Hence the games started "here comes the aeroplane, meeeeeeeeeeooow" and still at 3.4 years they continue - "I bet you can't eat your broccolli before Daddy eats it?!"

thank you littlapin. i have seen aitch's spinoff, yes, but didn't think to post on there! i will do so now.

yes she has started trying to crawl and is getting about much more now, that has surely had an effect.

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fusilli pasta with pesto and double cream would be nice and calorific, i'd have though, but really the bfing should be fine if you've got no other reason to be concerned.
i'm not very useful on teh subject of weight gain because i never got dd weighed after it all went a bit pear-shaped on the bfing front and i realised that i was getting myself into an hysterical state over the weight of a big piss in a nappy.
but i've definitely observed her getting thicker and then leaner when she lengthens, you can see it in her trousers, iykwim? hth.

yeah, but not the amount she is going to eat right?! q fancy that for my tea tonight actually! mmm

am about to check out your forum aitch x