My nearly 7 month old started solids a few weeks ago and seems to really like it. He mostly has spoon-fed type meals, but he picks up the spoon and feeds himself, which is great fun (but very messy!!). So as he's doing it himself, I know that he's eating as much as he wants. He usually never finishes a meal, but he eats the majority of it and then loses interest, so I take that as a sign that he's full. We're currently doing three meals a day.
For milk, he has five feeds a day and one overnight, and it's combination of breast and bottle, but he seems to be losing interest in breastfeeding recently. When he has bottles, he has 7oz ever since 5 month old and he's always left a little in the bottom of the bottle.
However, the last few days he's started completely draining his bottle every time. So I'm guessing he's hungry! Does anyone have any thoughts on whether I should increase the amount of milk I offer him, or should I focus on getting him to eat more of his solid food instead?
I know milk is supposed to be their main nutrition, but the health visitor told me I should start dropping milk feeds when I began weaning, which I haven't done as it just didn't seem right for us. But it's all left me a little confused!
For reference he's a big, tall, 99th percentile baby, so I do worry that he needs lots of calories to maintain his ginormous size 🤣