My baby seems to want to stick to bottles!

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My DS is 10 and a half months now and has only cut out one bottle of milk, which he often wakes up and demands during the night. He's pretty good at eating breakfast, consuming large quantities of porridge or cereal then some fruit, at lunch he really only has a bread product (with hummus, marge or cheese on it) with fruit for pudding and throws away anything else I try to give him, then a tea he'll have a yoghurt and sometimes some dry pasta or noodles, but again throws away anything else.

I do keep trying other things, but he often won't even try them - just throws/flings it across the room. And I don't see how he can cut down on his milk when I can't get him to eat solids? Should I just give him more of what he will eat? Can a baby really survive on bread, cereal and fruit?

Help!

Hi
I haven't got a lot of advice but wanted to bump you.

My DS is younger than yours at nearly 9mo but is much the same really. I've just decided to chill out about it, although it is frustrating. We have good days and bad days for food. Do you try purees or are you doing BLW? I have been doing purees but always give finger food with every meal. Sometimes he is good at eating the purees and sometimes refuses after a spoonful or two.

You say he has only dropped one bottle which he then ends up having in the middle of the night anyway? Well, as long as he is still getting plenty of milk I would try not to worry. Plenty of young children thrive despite seemingly existing on air (!) and if you think about it bread, dairy, fortified cereal and fruit isn't such a bad diet really...

Thanks MusicMaiden.

I did start trying purees, but DS point blank refused to open his mouth. I moved to BLW when I started stressing out about it, but he will now have yoghurt and porridge from a spoon (although still not purees). He goes to nursery two days a week and they say he eats all sorts of things (including meat, veg, pasta in sauce etc) without throwing them on the floor.