Is she pushing her naps back?

[puffling]

Just to report back, she now seems much more content after a small increase in her milk intake (up to 30oz) and a reduction in her solids.

I'm surprised she was seemingly so affected by a such a slight reduction in her milk intake but she has been on the same amount for 3 months now and she is a big girl.; Perhaps she has learnt to just about get by on this moderate intake and really feels even a slight reduction?

Anyway, I'm a little confused about how best to move forward now. We will slowly and carefully vary and increase her solids intake and keep her formula at the same amounts unless she starts to refuse to finish her bottle (she never does this). Is this best? I know that she should be taking much less formula once solids are established but is it best to wait for her to cut her intake by herself? I suppose she may be readier to reduce her formula for herself once she starts having some protein with the solids. Perhaps this might supply some of the things that she could clearly only get from milk and not from the rice, fruit or vegetable.

[puffling]

That's great. Thanks so much.

[andibig]

DD has only in the past month or so dropped herself down to 2 btls. shes a big baby-quite tall for age. she now takes about 8-10 oz milk and further milk products such as yoghurts etc. your LO obviously will not be doing this for a long time yet. but i think it shows that some LOs who are bigger need more!!

[puffling]

Just when I thought it was all sorted 

Everything had seemed OK for a few days and we concluded (as above) that the small increase in milk must have done the trick. Then this afternoon she is back to being quite distressed again in a very similar way to before - some of the time she gets very upset and starts growling/grunting or will suddenly cry out intermittantly as if in pain. The important thing is that we gave her a cube of swede for lunch. When she was distressed previously she had been having  cubes of sweet potato. This is the first time back with a root vegetable after being fine with rice, fruit and green bean purees for a few days and she again seems very uncomfortable.

I'm starting to think its these root vegetables that are at least part of the problem. Does anyone know if there is something that sweet potato, carrot and swede (all of which seem to have given problems, carrot probably the least) have in common which might be doing this. And what might we do about it?

[andibig]

agree with stacy that her system may not be ready for it. DD was very windy when we started weaning-that happens with a lot of LOs.thats why HV & Drs reccommend baby rice to start with as its easily digestable.

[puffling]

OK, thanks. She's never really suffered from wind before so I'm not sure what I'm looking for. She seems to be content enough, smiling, but  every minute or two she lets out an uncomfortable growling noise and squirms or leans forward (if sitting). Sounds like wind to me. Is this the likely cause of these kind of symptoms. And might the symptoms arriving 2 or so hours after having a (tiny) bit of swede suggest that it was this that caused it?