How much milk is she drinking per day? At her age I would think you could cut back to about 20 oz. in a 24 hr. period
Sorry, Stacy, but I just had to laugh at this! I have been struggling to get milk in her for months, it'd be a HUGE day if I ever got 20oz in her, LOL!
As it is now, she has definitely upped her milk intake and she's up to 16oz max a day. She's a tiny little thing at under 18lbs!
Anyway, I have not been fighting her on it, just offering the spoon and if she turns away I wait (while she works on finger foods), then offer again a little later, etc. For the past two weeks she's been happy to take a combo of pureeds and finger foods, and then just all-out stopped this past weekend. I was just thinking of offering only spoon food first, and if she refuses wait a bit until she's a little hungrier?
I guess I wouldn't be this worried since she still is eating a good variety of stuff, I just think it's the cause of her excess crankiness the past few days - it started when she stopped taking pureeds.
I give her a bottle when she first wakes, just to help her transition in the morning (since she is a sleepyhead when she wakes like I am), but she never takes much for this bottle - only 3-4oz. We usually wait an hour for solids, but then the other two bottles we do after solids. She was only taking 3-4oz for those, too, until she stopped eating pureeds and now she sucks a 6oz bottle dry.
This afternoon I just let her eat as long as she wanted, and when she started getting cranky an hour later, I fed her some more again. It seemed to work pretty well, I'll try that again tomorrow and let you gals know.
the independance thing, well goood luck cause if shes got it, its not gonna end!
LOL, tell me about it!
Up until this point she's been mostly textbook but all-out spirited sleeper, now she's spirited in other ways as well. I'm not battling it, but it does wear me out by the end of the day.
Distraction, distraction, distraction....and it doesn't always work!
