help with weaning

[daisy777]

hi ladies, my lo is 7 months and atm om feeding him a small bowl of breakfast when he wakes. then he has half a pot of baby food for lunch, half for dinner and half a pot of baby rice pudding for pudding!
hes still having 6 ounze of bottle every 3-4 hours too.
does this sound normal? im worried i may be over feeding him lol
also any recipe ideas? the baby food is conveinient but i want to start making him fresh food.

xx

 

[New Mrs W]

hiya, mine is 6.5 months old and he has 7oz bottle at 7am, then porridge mixed with 2oz milk at 8am, 8oz bottle at 11am and some sort of lunch at midday (lately this has been something like cheese spread on bread, a couple of rice cakes and some cucumber as he was refusing to let me feed him from a spoon - not sure how much of this he eats and how much just ends up squashed up on sucked!!) followed by a yoghurt, 3pm 8oz bottle, 5pm something like bolognese or fruity chicken caserole (made to Annabel Karmel recipe) followed by another yoghurt or something like squashed bananas and custard then bed time 8oz bottle at about 7:30 pm. Frankie is super stuborn and once he has had enough he will literally refuse to open his mouth for any more food, so I don't think I'm feeding him too much.

As for recipes, I have found Annabel Karmel's recipes to be great! Here's a link to her website xxx

https://www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes

 

[SKATERBUN]

Well our LO at 8 months had the same amount of food as you have stated, but when you say half a pot do you mean the 4 month+ stuff or the larger jars 7 month+?

Our LO will probably have 1 weetabix for breakfast with full fat milk, 1/2 of the full sized jars and a small pudding for lunch (ie/yoghurt), and then 1/2 full size jar for dinner and a small jar of rice pudding.

By reducing the milk during the day they will eat more solids. I only give one bottle at 7am and one at 8pm now, she has around 240ml each feed.

I would say you LO is near to dropping the daytime feed now, if you start introducing finger foods instead then you will find that hes satisfied.
e.g a banana, a rice cake, a piece of toast

 

[daisy777]

thanks alot ill have a look at that site
xxx

 

[QTPie]

Hi

SOunds about right to me . As another poster said, as you drop milk-feeds, their appetite picks up.

Also second the AK site and books

QT