6 month old…

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My daughter has been weaning for a while now - we started around 4 months and have just focused on puree food - we are aware that babies shouldn’t be weaning until 6 months old but our daughter has been showing signs of bottles not filling her and once we started on the pouches she not only was sleeping throughout the night she also seemed happier within herself. Now that she’s 6 months old I feel like I’m doing everything wrong. We’ve continued giving her milk but giving her a pouch of food throughout the day sometimes two as she’s eating the full pouch.
We struggle with the mornings more as she wakes up herself and instantly just wants a bottle. If she doesn’t drink the entire bottle I will then wait a couple of hours before giving her a pouch of food which sometimes then means she’s full and doesn’t need her next bottle for another couple of hours.
I feel like as a first time mum I’ve just been doing everything wrong. Everywhere I look it says that babies should be having a full solid meal by 6 months and I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

My third DC is 7mo, soon coming up to 8. I don’t use pouches or purées, feels unnecessary and expensive to me!

Baby has a Weetabix warmed with cow’s milk for breakfast (bf baby), then something like toast with cucumber sticks for lunch - or eggy bread with halved large tomato, or peanut butter on toast with banana slices, just as some examples, for lunch. He then shares whatever we’re having for dinner - we had homemade burgers last night so he had a bit of cheese, cucumber, tomato, small chunk of beef patty, to play with. He might have salmon with broccoli and potato pieces, or pasta with homemade bolognese, as other examples.

I say “has them”, probably “has them to play with” is a more representative comment! I have a plate that suctions to the highchair tray and give him a selection of pieces on that to mess around with. The Weetabix he definitely eats all of, the rest is timed when I eat, but more for fun tbh.

If you are nervous about finger foods then you need the Solid Starts app. It shows you show to prepare every food in a way that's safe for the age they currently are.

But really I would buy the How to Wean Your Baby book. You can get it off Vinted for a few pounds and it will answer all of these questions.

We weaned DT’s on pouches and jars - worked our way through the ranges for each age group. I didn’t want to do baby led weaning. We gave a pouch first and then milk - some days were more successful than others. Worked well and they grew up eating everything and anything. Sounds like you’re doing well.

We’re doing the same, the closer our daughter gets to the next age group we then slowly start introducing the next stage of pouches and jars. I’m finding it easier to do it this way than buying food we don’t usually buy just to make meals for our daughter knowing she may not eat it.

Some great flavours and textures to introduce them to . This is the katsu curry ingredients.

Organic curry sauce 49% (water, organic tomato puree, organic cornflour, organic herbs and spices: curry powder (black pepper, cinnamon, clove, coriander, fenugreek, ginger, nutmeg, onion, turmeric), cumin, ginger, allspice, coriander, sage, thyme) | organic cooked rice 15% (water, organic rice) | Organic carrots 12% | Organic chicken 10% | Organic potatoes 7% | Organic onions 3% | Organic swede 3% | Organic raisins <1% | Organic extra virgin olive oil <1% | Organic garlic <1% | Other stuff 0%

Baby shouldn’t be having cows’ milk until over 12 months.

They can have cows milk in cereals and in foods from 6 months. It's not supposed to be the main drink until 1 year.