She's not interested!

[MummaSue]

DD isn't all that interested in solids at the moment. She will suck on a piece of toast in the mornings but isn't feeling anything else.

Should I push it? Should I be worried?

I know the answer to both of those questions is no, just go with it but I worry that she's not going to ever want to eat LOL.

She's such a boobie girl!

I sit her in the high chair for every meal and she seems interested until i actually give her something!!

Sue x

[CinderToriella]

No don't be worried Hannah moo is the same ,sometimes just wants the food to throw off the high chair lol god i love the mess LOL

Sometimes she munches down everything i give her,sometimes just had a try then wants to bang her toys on the highchair

Food is fun untill I'm 1

ps Hannah is such a booby loving baby as well

[Mum2Romone]

Isn't baby led solids where you put food in front ofthem and just let them eat?

Maybe put some different foods in front of her, DS ate anything i put in front of him and I just gave him a different range of foods all day

[MummaSue]

Shell thanks for that. H sounds the same as E!!

M2R, yeah she has such a wide variety in front of her - sometimes she fancies it, most of the time - not!!

I just need to remind myself that she knows what she is doing. I just have the MCHN voice in the back of my mind sometimes telling me that she needs to be on 3 meals a day - not helpful or correct I know.

Thanks guys
Sue xxx

[CinderToriella]

3 meals a day pppfffttttt 'those' ppl really annoy me

same as i got the other day' so is DD on the bottle yet ' said by a family member...

[allycat06]

It's hard not to stress isn't it? I started BLS with DS when he was 6 months but he didn't really take to it until about 9.5 months. He would eat the odd bit of toast or cruskits but wasn't interested in much else. I had the MCHN and my mum on my back about it, neither understood the concept and we're always telling me he should be on 3 solid meals by now. He was a little booby fiend too, still feeding every 2 hrs so I knew he was getting what he needed. When he started crawling a monster appetite suddenly appeared!

She will eat when she's ready. Just keep offering it to her. I think the only reason to be concerned would be if she wasn't getting a lot of breastmilk but sounds like she is Do you eat with her?
DS now eats more than I do for breakfast lol!

[Epacris]

My fully breastfed DS wouldn’t have a bar of solids for aaaaages. I tried at 6 months, gave up between 7 and 8 months, tired again after that and he finally got into them at around 10 months.

Your DD knows best and she’ll eat when she’s ready. And Grrrr to that MCHN!

[Jennifer13]

Sue, my DD took about a month of almost complete disinterest in food before she decided she wanted it. I just kept offering (from six months). Literally, one day she just started gobbling up whatever was put in front of her and hasn't stopped since (well, maybe some minor boundary testing around food at three, but nothing worth noticing ). Just let her set the pace and you'll probably be helping her set up great eating habits for the future!

Sounds like she's doing just fine. Time to tune out the MHCN voice and listen to your own!

[onthefly]

Nah, she's fine. She'll eat when she needs to - you'll know when she's hungry for it, believe me.

[sloane]

bollocks to the 3 meals a day at 6 months!

my DS took ages to really get into food. and we're talking about a big, hungry (for bf!) boy. we did some spoon feeding (yoghurt, porridge - the real stuff, not baby food) & that worked for us as well. in the end he would have been about 8 or 9 months before he really got into food & even now, he has days where he eats a lot & others where he's not interested.

i know you know how it works & not to be worried - but sometimes it's hard to remember when it's your baby! hang in there, she'll be more interested before you know it!

[~Kim~]

Sue babe. You already know you're doing a fabbo job by listening to your DD instead of the nurse.

Neither of my two were very interested in food until well after nine months. We did BLS too. When DS was about 7-8months old I went away with my GFs and watched how much stuff they shovelled into their babies mouths and all of a sudden I questioned whether or not I was doing the right thing. But now, as my two go out to a restaurant and eat whatever is on the (adult) menu or tuck into a laksa or meal that hasn't been made kid friendly I know I did the right thing.

[toomanyshoes]

As long as your buba is happy you're doing it just right

and your the best judge of that!

Soon enough she'll be eating you out of house and home

[human bean]

I'll echo what everyone else is saying, you're doing it just right, and bub will show more interest when she's ready. BUT, I understand that quiet little nagging voice in the back of your head whispering it should be 3 meals a day, you're not feeding her enough etc etc My DD has gone from a thriving interest in food for the first few weeks (BLS here too), and now she will not touch a thing, the only thing she will eat is yoghurt - when I spoon feed her! Go figure? Before we know it they'll be eating like they've got hollow legs and we'll no longer be worrying

[Lily Dust]

I just need to remind myself that she knows what she is doing. I just have the MCHN voice in the back of my mind sometimes telling me that she needs to be on 3 meals a day - not helpful or correct I know.

You are answering your own question Sue, trust that gut feeling hun it is hard though in those early day when many others are 'eating' their 3 cups of much a day! DD showed interest in food at first then decided she didnt want any lol, from there she goes up and down in appetite and I can count on 2 hands the amount of times in her life I would have considered her a 'booby baby' at 6 months she would nibble on food and was having 5 bfs a day and never dipped below that 50% in weight, so these clever little poppets we have really do know what they need. I was sure she would starve to death You are doing a great job and once you get passed that initial 'fear' BLS really is so much easier!

[LimeSlice]

:yeahthat: to everyone else lol

We didn't get into here until 7.5 months... I remember posting a similar thread - "OMG she is 6months and not interested in food - is she going to die?!" - ok so mine was waaay more dramatic than yours, but that's when the girls set me straight with the BLS thing

Anyway, doing great mumma, keep following your instincts (that's the voice you just *know* is right - not the one on the other shoulder that dresses like Britney Spears, drinks booze for breakfast and does all the other things you wish you were doing at arsenic hour)

[MummaSue]

YAY! Thanks everyone. I always feel reassured chatting to you guys.

She sits with us at every meal, I give her what we have, sometimes she likes, other times it gets launched over the side of the high chair which is funny.

She's still breast feeding 2 hourly so I know that she's getting plenty of food. She's not crawling yet - and is making NO moves to do so LOL. She does roll around the floor though.

Thanks so much everyone, just keep doing what we're doing.
Sue xxxx

[Epacris]

I give her what we have, sometimes she likes, other times it gets launched over the side of the high chair which is funny.

Ahhh... that’s lovely that you can laugh at the food throwing. I did for a while too. I’m over it now. I’m thinking of drilling a slot at the bottom of the external dining room wall and mounting a tap with a hose inside on the opposite wall.... so I can just hose it all out after dinner.

[MummaSue]

LOL Epacris, yeah, I can see it getting old very quickly. Haha, my OCD is bad enough without having something else to clean - but I don't mind, cleaning is my thing!

DH calls me Monica. Cleaning programs are my p0rn!