Is she eating enough?

[Katarina]

Hello
My little princess is nearly 7 months old now, she has been slowly weaning since she was 4 months.
She was in a really good routine of:
8AM - 7oz
10AM - half a weetabix with formula milk
12PM - 5oz
2PM - savoury food, about 2 icecubes in volume
4PM - 5oz
8PM - 7oz
everything was fine until about 3 weeks ago, now she is being very awkward and I don't know what to do!

She'll only have 3/4oz for her milk feeds and still eats her real food well.
Is this enough? Today I am going to try her on 3 meals with only 3 milk feeds to see if she would prefer to eat real food instead of milk.
What do you guys think?

 

[Fluffy Bunny]

Hi, not sure if you mean you are struggling with the milk or solid side of things?

Around the stage you are at I know I was struggling to get the milk/ food balance right (still tweaking it now )

I was concerned Evie wasn't getting enough milk as this is still where they get alot of nutrition from. When I mentioned it to the HV she said they should be on around 20oz of milk a day, this can include milk you use in cooking or making cereal etc.

Hope this helps

 

[Katarina]

Sorry, I've never been good at explaining things

I'm worried because she used to have 24oz of milk per day along with 2 solid meals, now she has 12-16 and 2 solid meals, I can't persuade her to have more milk.
I was wondering if this was enough milk and if I should give her more solid food?

Thank you for helping!

 

[Nicky_Jones]

I got told that they should be having (at that age) 20fl oz a day. However that includes the milk they get as part of there meals, so if they get milk in cereal for example that counts towards. I had the opposite problem at that age, my HV told me she should be having more solids and less milk. It is far easier said than done though, isn't it.

 

[Fluffy Bunny]

To be honest that sounds pretty much the same as Evie was taking at 7months - I could never really see how much milk she was getting as I BF.

If you are worried you could try upping her milk slightly by adding it to food, I used to just stick it in with anything, mashed vegetables, making cheesy sauces, cereal etc.