Solids or milk first?

I could have written this, my little one doesn’t seem to have the knack of moving the bit she’s bitten off round to the side to chew so it all gets pushed back out. Health visitor said to cut her from 5 milk feeds a day to 2, tried this and she was just starving and up all night for milk, I have decided it’s just more about her ability than hunger level and she probably just needs more time to practice with some foods

@Emma Yes, SAME! I also tried to reduce milk feed amounts to encourage more eating of solid foods, but it just meant he started waking in the night for feeds. I reverted back immediately as I’ve waited 9 months for sleep haha. I deserve it! 😅

What I’ve done during the day is offer more snacks like fruit or chrips. Now my 9 month will have a bottle in the morning then afternoon for nap then bed time with 3 meals. Or could leave food on the floor on a plate and let them pick at it that’s how i started and now she will sit and eat her food as she use to do this too xx

I think this is really normal. If yiu think about it they're just learning how to chew and it takes a while for them to get the hang of it. My girl has a few teeth but still mostly chews and spits food back out. Or it ends up on the floor! She'll eat very little but will take a bite and chew a little. I think also they don't understand yet that they can make the food they've chewed smaller by chewing more so they spit it out as it feels too big in the mouth. Just a developmental phase they'll get the hand of it! Also I think it's really dangerous of HV to suggest to drop a milk feed. Just keep offering food and milk and you'll see as they get more teeth and practice chewing they'll eventually eat more. Some kids just take a little longer to start becoming food hoovers!

@Emma this sounds like my first I feel like she drank a lot of milk compared to food for her age but wasn’t worried either then at about 14 months she all of sudden switched it up and got right into her food and ate a lot more just over night I think your right just getting the knack of it x

I do food first. Breakfast on waking, then a bottle an hour later or so, and maybe more milk before nap. Then lunch after first nap, with milk before second nap. Dinner when wake and then milk again before bed. However I think it depends on the baby and your routine. We've tried a few things and this works best for us with her reflux.

My little boy is exactly the same. He still breastfeeds every couple of hours too, even during the night! My health visitor said this is completely normal and to not worry about it until he is 1. I do spoon feed him puree as well and this seems to make him more content

My daughter has a bottle in the morning, breakfast, nap, bottle before her nap, dinner and then a bottle for bedtime: She does get some snacks in the afternoon but isn’t interested in food at lunchtime, I’m just taking it on her lead. Her feeds are still 8oz she hasn’t dropped them down because she just wakes in the night hungry