10 mth - 1st refusals - what's happening?

[marilyn73]

Hi,
It's been awhile since I've visited here, but I've got a new problem.  My 10 mth old dd has just started inconsistently refusing regular feeds.  She's was on a rock steady routine of feeds 7am, 11:30am, 3:30pm, 7pm - with breakfast, lunch, and dinner of solids and water.  Then 1 day she refused the bedtime feed, the next day the after nap feeds, the next day was ok, then today refused the bedtime feed in favour of her thumb.  I let her fall asleep and then picked her up and did a thumb nipple swap which worked - I mean, I couldn't send her to bed with nothing but a few sips of water at suppertime right?
Is this a sign to maybe eliminate a daytime feed?
I tried breast milk in a sippy the day she refused the 11:30 and 3:30 feeds, but she wouldn't take it (just wanted water and food).
She's a great eater, and a big baby.  Bf's usually last approx 15 min.
Any advice or should I just let her do her own thing, taking the feeds when she wants?

[firsttimemummy]

Around this age they do tend to drop one milk feed.  If she is refusing a few feeds in a day it may be teething - O recently had a couple of days where he tried to feed but kept popping off as his gums were tender.

I also find that Oliver now is having a slightly different routine, with earlier milk/snack (which M did too) - roughly 7am (or 6am!) milk; 8am breakfast; 10am milk or snack; 12 lunch; 3pm milk/snack; 5pm dinner; 7pm milk (he will usually have milk at 10am or 3pm and solids for the other - but some days has milk at both).

p.s. welcome back