Not too sure where I go from here? :/

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Thomas is 5 months old. He is on 4x 9oz bottles a day 4 hourly. After his 7am feed I have started to give him some cow&gate apple and blueberry porridge.

He loves this and even snatches the spoon off me and tried to feed himself. When do I need to start giving him other food?

I'm so confused by all of this!
 
i started with dinners first. I started giving him porridge in the evening before bath for a week (then usual bottle before bed)

then after a week i started giving pureed veg in the evening instead of the porridge.

this week i've started giving him yogurt & pureed fruit for breakfast. (after morning bottle - i wait about an hour after the bottle)

next week i'm starting finger type food for lunch and after that no more purees.
 
I started on the evening with baby rice (made up with his usual milk) because he was still getting up once in the night at 5 months 1 to 2 times.

After having rice on an evening, night feeds dropped to one bottle per night.

I then introduced a breakfast, I just used the rice at first but it was never a roaring success so I tried a porridge, hoping a bit of flavour would get him going and it did, Cow and Gate banana porridge. I love this one particuarly as it can just be made up with boiled water rather than his milk. Then next I added some fruit puree with his porridge, and this went well.

I upped his evening meal to rice with a pureed veg. So at the moment we are running on a breakfast (bottle at this time too) and bottles in the day, then evening 'meal' with whatever milk he takes from bottle. He is no longer fed in the night. My next step will be a lunchtime meal but still feel confused at times with things!

My stressy thing now is about introducing sippy cups and getting him going with those and off the bottle! Have found a nice half way point in the NUK learner bottle/cup, but he still doesn't feed himself with it but has improved with holding it and getting it to his mouth.
 
I've given up and decided to try baby led weaning when he is a bit older. He has lost all interest in his porridge and spits it out so I've stopped giving it him.
 
Try some mashed up butternut squash?
 
I tried him with some carrot, broccoli and potato puréed yesterday and he kept spitting that out too so maybe he isn't ready yet.
 

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