23 week old questions about food and bottle

[Tasha, Ryan and Hollie]

hi,

my baby is nearly 6 months old, shes been on solids for about 5 weeks, and she now has a variety of foods as she hasnt shown any allergic reactions, she has a breakfast and dinner i give her jars, but also i give her yoghurt is there any yoghurt i should not give her? i have been giving her petit filous and danone baby 1s she loves them.

also shes been drinking less of her afternoon bottle, she has 4 feeds a day and drinks 6-7 oz each time, but her afternoon feed she has been drinking only 2-3 oz, she loves her bottle but her afternoon 1 she doesnt seem fussed? can i drop a feed when she gets to 6 months? or could i just put 3oz in a sippy cup or just replace with yoghurt.

i was also wondering, she hasnt got any teeth yet but can she still have finger foods like toast and bread etc, because i would like to give her them for her lunch when she eventually has a lunch.  also what other foods could i give her for lunch and shes not a very big eater.

thanks

[*Natasha*]

We didn't introduce yoghurt until 6months and then i only gave baby yoghurt. Can you post your routine with quantities of food and bottles so i can see what she is getting. It may be that you may need to cut back on the solid intake to get her drinking all her bottles as this is still the most important food intake for them at this age.

[Tasha, Ryan and Hollie]

hey, her routine is

8am awake and bottle of 7 oz
9am cereal, usually has farleys dried foods of food or mashed up banana etc which she eats ok.
10 -11 am - Nap
12 pm - Bottle 7 oz
2 - 4 pm nap
4 pm Bottle she was taking 6 oz at this feeding but she now is only drinking 3-4oz at a stretch
5pm- Dinner, usually half of a jar of a main and then a pudding i usually give her pureed fruit shel sometimes have a yoghurt, but she wont always eat a pudding. sometimes she wont even eat half of the jar and they are small jars.
6 30 pm - bath
8 pm - Bottle shel have a full 7 oz bottle now
8 30 pm - bed time

[* Paula *]

Natasha,

I would not recommend dropping down to 3 bottles until your lo is established on 3 full meals a day.  At this age, her milk is her main source of nutritian and that these foods that you are introducing to her are just tasters.  She is still very young, and has not been on food for very long.

HTH

Paula x

[Tasha, Ryan and Hollie]

thanks for replys people.

i didnt want to drop her bottle but at the end of the day if shes not interested then what can i do? she manages other bottles the afternoon 1 seems to be the problem.
i prefer her to have a bottle over solids but from since she was born she hasnt been a big eater i dunno what more i can do if she doesnt want it.

yeah i wont drop her bottle till she has 3 meals, i might just try putting it in a sippy cup as she knows how to drink from it now.

thanks xxxxxx

[rinajack]

Hi Natasha - have you though of joining in on the March April 06 thread in the birthclub area - your DD is 9 days older than mine, and there are lots of us with similar age babies who love to chat.

Maybe I will see you there.

[Tasha, Ryan and Hollie]

yeah i will actually thanks

[Tasha, Ryan and Hollie]

do you think you could send me the link to it? thanks

[rinajack]

https://babywhispererforums.com/index.php?topic=56999.1995;topicseen

Hope that works, have never done that before. If it doesn't it is in the EASY area, and in the birth club area...

See you there...