Advise please 😁

[Pickle2021]

My LO is weaning well and have been for about a month. After support please and advice no judging pls.

I do mixture of blw and purees.

She has morning porridge (1/3 jar using them up as got lots) with fruit puree squeezed in(a good squeeze) . Dinner half a jar, or last night's dinner. Does depend.

I know she's not meant to be on this many meals at 6.5 months but when she is screaming at me for my porridge and laps it up. Im baby led also I can't remember what's it called something responsibility.

My problem is she's not really interested in taking full feeds. She takes 150ml morning, in 2 sittings. 150mls about 11 ish but over two sittings. 150mls 230/3 ish again over 2 sittings then bed time bottle but can take anywhere from 90mls to 210mls usually in 2 sittings 🤦🏼‍♀️

Occasionally will have days where she takes 180mls to 210mls over two sittings.

So day looks like something like-
7am wake
710am feed
8am feed
830am porridge
9am nap
1030am wake
11am feed
12pm feed
1am sleep ( new adjustment to get to 234)
230/3 - feed
430/5 dinner depends on 3rd nap etc
630pm feed.

I'm trying to discourage this 2 sitting thing, I don't mind giving bit of top up before nap but not half a bottle so to speak. Do I cut a bottle down by offering lunch at 11am in hopes she takes a bit more bottle at midday and go to 3 bottles a day? Or perhaps offer her a small feed at 3 ish still and then dinner at 430 sort of time. Then feed about 630pm ish

I hope this makes sense 😂

Was she taking full feeds before you introduced the solids @Pickle2021?

@dominicraabstravelagent Nope. Not really she has never been a fan off her feeds. She's always needed encouragement to even have some. We go through good patches and bad patches. Her minimum a day is 600ml. Her max is 800ml on good days. Very occasionally we get to 900ml but that rare. Even before solids.

I been thinking today perhaps to stretch her, so maybe give her feed say 730am give her time to wake up and see if she takes more (no night feeds currently) Then perhaps go a bit longer then 4 hours. But I don't know if that's OK to do?

I give her bottle and she will shove it out of her mouth. Pushing it away and if I push too far gets upset. Then 5 mins later if I have something I'm eating she wants it. I try bottle again same thing happens but will take what I'm eating.

It's so difficult when they never really take to their milk feeds isn't it?

I'd tend to go for more solids, offer her a daily vitamin, and look for food that replaces the calcium, fat and protein that she would naturally get from milk.

So offer things like oily fish twice a week and foods like:

Eggy bread with berries

Garlic peas

Chicken & Apricot Puree

Fish Pie Bites, or just regular fish pie

Pitta Pizza

One egg omelette cut into strips with halved cherry tomatoes

Scrambled egg, again with some veg on the side.

Eggy bread with berries was always popular with my DD and still is now

You can also add mascarpone or olive oil to her purées/mashed food to give her extra fat and calories.

Let us know how you get on

Yeah definitely difficult. If I didn't give it to her and gave solids she be more then happy to do that 🤦🏼‍♀️

Great thank you 🤗 for all your suggestions.
Today been bit better. Been holding her off for feeds a bit. But still only taking half at a time 🤦🏼‍♀️she's had 680 so far, but got rest of bed bottle yet. Had food morning and evening and gobbled it up x

680 plus some at night is fine. I really wouldn't worry. Much better that she has this plus her 2 lots of solids and is happy rather than trying to force her to take more milk.