Weaning routine now in question - your opinions please?

[TettyLouBar]

Hi all, sorry bit of a ramble coming...

DD (8months) seems to have picked up a dreaded vomiting bug from somewhere which has reared its ugly head this morning.

She woke up from her midmorning nap and vomited a HHUUGGEE amount all over her cot (contained breakfast and mid morning milk) and then proceeded to vomit a further 5 times, eventually going extremely pale, limp and almost unresponsive.
I panicked loads and to cut a long story short ended up on the phone to NHS direct . Dont get me wrong, I think they do a great job, but the woman (a nurse) on the other end of the phone was more concerned about the weaning routine we have in place than what was actually wrong with DD.

I ran through the basic routine which is loosely based on one in a Annabelle Karmel recipe book:

8am breakfast )porridge or weetabix or toast etc & water
mid morning milk feed
nap
1230pm lunch puree yoghurt that type of thing
mid afternoon milkfeed
nap
1700 dinner more puree, finger foods etc
1900 milk feed and bed

(she wakes about 0500 for a milk feed too.)

She said I was basically overfeeding her and that I was trying to cram too much in, and that this could be the reason why she's vomited?

Shes never vomited before due to over feeding, and is not a sicky baby at all. She loves her food and purees but has never been a particularly hungry baby so she only has small meals at the moment and I try to concentrate on getting atleast the recommended minimum amount of milk down her (18 oz ish).

Is this wrong? does anybody have a suggestion for a better routine? she seems to love it and never has a problem?

she's talking shite!! At that age ds had just given up his night feed and was down to 4 feeds. He also had 3 meals in between the milk feeds.

I would be more inclined to think it is a bug rather than the feeding especially if she is not a child prone to being sick anyway.

Our routine was:
7am - milk
8am - breakfast
11am - milk
12pm - lunch
2.30pm - milk
5pm - dinner
7.15pm - milk

Our routine is exactly the same as yours - they are babies - they need feeding every two hours - ignore her.

Did you take your dd to the doctor - is she still being sick?

load of old bollox - we were on this and still are if dd can be arsed is inclined to drink mid monring/afternoon milk..how is your lo? and you don't chuck up everything all over your cot if you over feed ffs...

Ds2 routine is virtually the same and he's 12months.

Overfeeding - what a load of rubbish. Your routine is perfectly fine if that is what you and your dd are happy with .

My dd is nearly 8 months and the routine is pretty much the same as yours.We just skipped mid morning milk very recently because she was only taking about 3 oz and was quite reluctant.
Contact your HV or GP tomorrow if you haven't done that already...let us know

Thanks ladies, I have a very short fuse when talking to someone who goes off on a wierd and unneccesary tangent, especially in those sort of situations!

After about 3 attempts to politely ask her what she thinks I should do about DD and her ignoring me I snapped and said "so what exactly are you saying that I've overfed her til she was sick?"
She eventually advised me to try sips of water first which helped and then I left it an hour before I gave her about 3 oz milk and put her back down for a nap (she was nackered!) slept for 2 hours solid.

She had a small amount of puree for dinner and about a third of a mini fromage frais and sips of water, but 20 mins later it was all over the carpet, so I'm sticking to formula for the next 24 hours I think.

I was just so scared to see her react like that when she vomited initially. I put her in the bath because she was plastered in weetabix vomit, and she went white and pastey, her lips turned blue and her eyes rolled back in her head - now thats NOT overfeeding!

She had 6 oz milk at bedtime and apart from the odd howl and usual snuffles she's not really woken up at all. Will keep a close eye on her tonight. poor little lamb

poor thing. personally i'd stick to milk for the next few days and ditch the food.

It doesn't sound at all like you're overfeeding her, she's just ill. I would hold off milk completely until the vomiting has settled. Dairy is not good with GI problems.

My 8 month olds' day goes like this:

sometime between 6-7am - wakes and has bf

about 8am - breakfast (weetabix or porridge or toast) with water

10am (or after morning nap) small snack - fruit or rice cake or breadstick with water

12.30ish - lunch - sandwich or something on toast (cheese, scrambled egg etc) with water

3pm ish - snack similar to in the morning, with water

5.30 - dinner. whatever we're having usually (quick blitz in the blender if too lumpy). Tonight was lamb tagine with cous cous and broccoli. Water to drink

7pm bf before bed

11pm dreamfeed (bf or ff- he takes about 6oz).

I've been told by hv to drop the dreamfeed but he wakes hungry about 3am without it so I'm keeping it for now!

Hi all, she's much more perky this morning. DH got up and fed her a night feed which she kept down fine, and I've just given her another milk feed at 8 instead of her breakfast. She appears to be fine with milk. It's just solids shes rejecting. Gonna keep offering her sips of water and stick with milk today.

I think she's wondering where her bowl of breakfast is though. I hate not feeding her, feels like I'm being mean .
The nurse on the phone yesterday told me not to give a baby weetabix because its stays in their stomach too long and takes ages to digest. DD absolutely LOVES weetabix, and Ive never heard of this theory before?

i think she's just referring to not making her tummy work too hard if she's sick, that's all. our doc even advised watering down milk if it's all that would stay down, to keep dd's liquids up altogether.

you're not being mean not giving her solids, she's only been on them for a couple of months anyway...

Yeah good point Aitch. She just stares longingly at whatever I'm eating!