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Should I cut down on her milk feeds?
My little one will be a year old on July 15 and is still not eating very well. She has a 200ml (7 fl oz) when she wakens around 6.30am, a bottle at 10am (180ml/6.5 fl oz), lunch at 12pm (pureed food and a yoghurt) at 1.30pm she has another 200ml bottle then at 4pm she has another bottle (about 150ml) and then her dinner at 5.30 (again pureed food with fromage frais or fruit) and then a 200ml bottle before bed at 7.30pm. I try to give her breakfast of baby cereal, weetabix or ready brek (contacted the makers to ask if it was okay for a baby and it is) but she won't always take it, at 10am I try to give her fruit but again, she won't always take any, she has her lunch okay but not very much and dinner time isn't really a problem. She won't eat textured foods, only purees (she has three bottom teeth and four top teeth) but I feel she's not eating enough for her age. My 2 year old was on table foods at the same stage and was still breastfeeding (my 11 month old stopped wanting the breast at 10.5 months). Should I cut down on her milk intake to see if she eats more solids. i've tried her with finger foods too but she just puts them in her mouth then spits it out again, she will eat bread/toast though. Any help would be appreciated, this is all new to me!
@Tenko, we try to make it a fun time, if she doesn't eat she doesn't eat, I don't force the issue. I breastfed my 2 year old til she was just over a year and by the end she was on two feeds a day the same as your little one. I do cut up pieces of food for her, veggies, chicken and pasta but she just chews on it then spits it out. i'll have a look at baby lead weaning though, thanks!
@Tenko, we try to make it a fun time, if she doesn't eat she doesn't eat, I don't force the issue. I breastfed my 2 year old til she was just over a year and by the end she was on two feeds a day the same as your little one. I do cut up pieces of food for her, veggies, chicken and pasta but she just chews on it then spits it out. i'll have a look at baby lead weaning though, thanks!
5 Answers
- 10 years ago
I'm breastfeeding so not sure how it works with formula, but I give my almost one yr old 2 feeds of milk a day, and three meals. Milk morning and evening, and breakfast (cereal or toast), lunch (sandwich or veggies and fruit) and dinner (lentils, veggies, or rice/pasta etc and yoghurt). Have you tried letting her feed herself, mess and all? Or giving her the family meal, same as you, as long as it's healthy and salt free/reduced? Try looking up baby led weaning tips for ideas. Also, is eating done casually in a relaxed manner, or is it an anxious time? Good luck!
- Anonymous4 years ago
i ended giving my youthful ones formula at a million year. I merely used up the can and altered it with cows milk. I nonetheless gave milk in a bottle, and steadily switched to cups. I shrink right down to 2 bottle feeds an afternoon at 14-15 months with my youthful ones. i might want to characterize that you feed your daughter her breakfast and lunch earlier the bottles at those circumstances because then she'll devour all her nutrition and by no skill be crammed up with milk. frequently my youthful ones might want to drink some bottle yet no longer want some thing simply by the undeniable fact that that they had already eaten, and weren't thirsty. sturdy success with the swap.
- Anonymous10 years ago
One thing Ive picked up on is that your baby is neally one and you are still giving pureed food, your baby can eat table foods by now, like soft stuff you are eating cut up into bite size pieces, theres no need to give him baby food. He can eat any kind of breakfast cereal that does not have too much salt and sugar just check the packaging
- 10 years ago
I would possibly cut down on the milk at lunch time. And just stick to morning and night. My son was a fussy eater at this age too.
Re introduce foods previously turned away after a few weeks.
Hard things to chew were also great for my son. He loved munching on a carrot stick.
Source(s): mum of a fussy eater. - AdManBLv 510 years ago
Breast milk is more easily digested than cows milk and has natural probiotics in it. She is probably having trouble digesting the cows milk and cannot eat so much. I'd express and give her breast milk in a cup.
Source(s): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1268987/... http://www.breastfeeding.com/all_about/all_about_a... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/10060...
