Silly question!

[louise1979]

Hello

Just wanted some advise really as little confused. When they say 6 months do they mean 24 weeks or calender months? Stupid question i know?

Also, Started weaning early at around 19 weeks with baby rice at first, is going well and LO seems to enjoy fruits and veggie purees. She is now 23 weeks. However she has always been fussy with milk and struggles after 4 oz at a feed now. Here is our schedule

7am 5-6 oz formula, always a struggle

8am few 6 spoons rice and fruit puree

11am 4-7 oz formula, again a bit of a struggle

11.45 8 -10 spoons fruit or veg puree

3pm 5-7 oz formula sometimes a struggle

5.30 pm half-whole jar veg puree

7pm 8 oz formula sometimes ravenous other times fussy

11pm 3 oz formula dreamfeed (recently cut from 7 oz by us to encourage brekkie)

My question is am i feeding her too much? she seems to like most solids but never really seems very hungry, i have tried different schedules, i.e half milk then solids but she flat out refuses the rest of the bottle after. I think i need bigger gaps to make her hungry but am worried that she will not take big enough feeds in one go if i drop a bottle. I was thinking about maybe dropping a bottle and then introducing a yogurt or some diary to keep up the calories but worry she is too young.

I am very nervous about her dropping milk feeds due to probs we had early on, but am also worried that i am pushing her to drink all the time.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

 

thanks

[zed]

Hi,

your first q. When they say 6 months do they mean 24 weeks or calender months? Stupid question i know?  They mean 6 calender months.

second q.  am i feeding her too much? In my opinion, yes, I started both my kids at 4 months but they didn't get more than 1 or 2 tsp per day until 6 months. 

Then at that point I started with 1 tbs and gradually increased that to 3 tbs (at this point they were still only being fed solids one time per day).  After that I then added a second meal to the day.  At 7 - 8 months I added the third meal of the day.... At some point around 8 months they were eating up to 1/3 cup per meal. 

At 9 months I added an am snack.  10 months a pm snack and 11 months a bed time snack.  I continued to BF 4 time per day until close to 12 months and by 13.5 - 14 months they were completely weaned.

[Freya'sMum]

There is a saying doing the round on this forum at the moment "until 1 food's just for fun!" - this is to help us to remember that solid foods are not introduced to babies initially for them to Eat, but as an Activity, to explore and practice for the future.

Milk is the food in the Eat part of EASY, and as a general rule, babies should continue to consume their pre-solids quantity of babymilk until at least 9-10 months, with food just being offered as tastes - there really is no rush to introduce solid foods, it causes many difficulties if too much is introduced too early from physical things such as intolerances/allergies, to babies and parents feeling under pressure and anxious about eating - it takes all the fun out of it !

I would not even consider dropping any milk, 20oz is the minimum a baby should have until a year, and at under 6 months your lo should be having significantly more than this! If you are going to reduce anything, it should be the solid food, you could even stop it altogether as it has little nutritional value for dd, it is the milk she needs for healthy growth and development! Then, when her milk intake has picked up again, you could reintroduce solid foods very gradually, making sure that her milk intake does not reduce again.

HTH?

Ax

[louise1979]

Thanks, i will cut the solids right back. I think i just got over excited with the solids as she seemed to enjoy them and she has always really hated her milk, we have always struggled it to feed her and she was thought to have silent reflux so we use carobel now which has improved things. She used to hit her bottle and scream at the sight of it so we have come a long way, but when she started gobbling up solids i was so releived i probably gave her too much. At least i know that she will enjoy it when she is old enough to have more, i just can't wait till she is a year old and i can stop worrying about her milk intake all day long!!

[lovedtodeath]

My lil guy likes formula pudding made with tapioca, formula porridge made with sorghum/milo or millet flour. Also pancakes made with his formula.

Allison gave you some good info. Here is a good link on solids. solid food

HTH!