One year old still not eating and only wanting breastfeeding. Help!

[monkleymum]

DS will be one next week and will STILL not eat solids! He is a very healthy and happy boy, been on the top centile since birth. We tried with BLW from 6 months as recommended, but nothing has ever really gone down, he will chew on toast occasionally, a bit of pasta or a steamed carrot, but spits out any solid bits that break off in his mouth. He shows a bit of interest and then throws everything to the floor. A couple of months ago, at the end of my tether (he's breastfed, so as he's growing he's just been increasing day and night feeds - and after a night of being up feeding him 9 NINE times) - I went back to basic baby weaning. I now give 'mush' of all sorts, and yogs, but he is not that bothered really. In order to get much down him we need a box full of toys as distractions. It has helped - he's now only breastfeeding 3 or four times a night!! He also will not drink out of beakers, bottles, 360 cup.. he will have a drink of water out of a normal glass or cup, but no milk or anything else.. anyway, that's the jist of it... going a bit stir crazy, want to wean off breastfeeding, but he does not!! p.s if i leave out a breast feed he gets BE@YOND frantic and will just very very very simply not even want to be in the highchair, or be presented with a bottle or anything. Oh, I also have two older, very well fed, will eat anything girls, for whom feeding and weaning was never an issue... any help would be very welcome!! thankyou!

My DD is 14 months and still only wants to BF all the time. I went to a La Leche League meeting yesterday for BF toddlers and met lots of mums there who are in the same position. Basically, breastmilk is MORE calorific than any food they can eat so you are doing a GREAT JOB WITH YOUR DS! At night time you make all your milk and he does most of his important growing, that's why they feed a lot at night. It drives me nuts but I have been implementing support strategies during the day to help me cope. My DD won't drink ANY OTHER MILK EVER! We have tried watering it down, we have cows milk formula, goats milk formula, normal cows milk, soya milk. Breast milk rehydrates them sufficiently. Why do you want to wean him? Are you getting outside pressure? They thrive on BF until they often naturally wean themselves from 2 onwards so in theory it is a lot easier!
Oh, and if it makes any difference, I have heard boys are more attached to boob than girls and BF longer!

I breastfed my dd2 until she was 2 1/2 years old. SHe ate very little and really wasn't interested in food until I stopped bf'ing. SHe's a healthy 5 year old now!

I BF my DD until she was nearly 2 (self weaned as pregnant). She really didn't get the idea of solids until she was 2 - however, I did night wean her at one year, I did a limited form of CC for 2 nights and that was it never had to do it again for illness or anything else. She has slept through since. So you can BF alot and not give much solids and get some sleep. The choice is yours.

My ds is 8 months and the opposite, he won't BF and eats tonnes of solids. i've done nothing different.

i would night weant to get some sleep. I did gradually help the weaning process with DD as I kept having very very early miscarriages. When I cut down her BF (used chocolate buttons to great success) she DID NOT eat more solids.

Good luck its tough. DD would not drink through a beaker either - not until i started to give diluted ribena and juice when she was 2. i was desperate.