Confused about feeding my 8mo dd........

[MumtoCharlotteMay]

My 8mo dd is a great eater but lately I'm really confused. I'm told that you're not supposed to drop their milk intake too much until they're one year old as it's still the main sorce of nutrition? But if I'm not supposed to drop her milk supply, how the hell is she supposed to eat any solids?

Her daily food routine goes like this:

Breakfast: Bowl of porridge, 1 petite filous yoghurt and however much milk she can manage. Usually between 3-5oz.

Lunch: 1 jar baby food, either a fruit custard compot or a yoghurt and again, however much milk she'll take. Up to 6oz usually.

Dinner: Same as lunch.

Before bedtime: 8oz bottle of milk.

I also give her things to munch/chew during the day like a bicotti buscuit/rice cake/carrot/apple etc. Just so that she can get a taster of more solid based foods. She's still on hungry baby milk so should I bring her off that yet, onto follow on milk? I'm now trying to introduce lumpier food to her which she doesn't like, I'm guessing she's not ready for it yet? She still has no teeth so she can only gum what she gets, and chokes when swallowing food with 'bits'.

Now I'm getting all this different info and I'm worrying that she's not having enough milk. But at the same time, I don't want to over feed her iykwim? Or is what she's getting enough? She really likes her food, and I knew when she needed to be weaned as the milk just never seemed to be enough for her! Glutton that she is

milk is the main thing, really and truly, concentrate on that.

hungry baby milk, however, doesn't have more calories but it is more difficult for them to digest so that may be something to look at. (not an expert in HB formula so check with someone else about switching).

she really doesn't need teeth to eat solid food, by the way, i know of kids who haven't had teeth until they were 16 months who self-fed from 6 months onwards. are you steaming that carrot or apple?

and tell me about the choking... does she really, really choke or does she gag? choking's frightening, silent, they go blue etc. gagging's noisy and them getting on with moving food to the front of their mouth with their tongue. must go to bed, will hear from you in the morning. and she is NO WAY a size 16.

What about splitting up her meals and her milk. My DD is 8 months old and has a BF at 5.00 a.m., breakfast at 8.30, BF at 10.30, lunch at 12.30, BF at 3.30, dinner at 5.30 and last milk feed at 7 just before bed. She could be filling up on the solids and just doesn't fancy the milk after that.

I agree with Peacemakeruk that serving the milk and food separately seems to help (apart from breaskfast feed). My daughter is also 8 months and she has an 8oz milk at breakfast along with a bowl of baby cereal between 7-8am (depends when she wakes up!) and then lunch at around 12 with water to drink not milk and then 7-8oz milk mid afternoon and then tea again without milk at around 4.30/5pm and then 7-8 oz milk at around 7-7.30pm before she goes to bed. She's been having around 24oz of milk and eating 3 (small) meals a day.

DS is 8mo, his eating is as follows

7.30 milk
8.00 toast or something for breakfast
11.00 milk
11.45ish lunch - cheese, bread roll, fruit
3.00 milk
4.45ish dinner - vegetables, meat, pasta or whatever
6.30 milk

He's started reducing his milk feeds slightly as he has started taking more solids.