Hi everyone,

Sounds like everyone is busy, busy!

Leesha - I've heard periods of food refusal is quite normal, especially in toddlers. As they become more willful it often occurs. But if you think it's medically (teething) related then hopefully it passes with the arrival of the impending (or should I say offending) tooth! Friends of mine have told me that their LOs refused for sometimes a few weeks and then just snapped out of it. One friend said feeding her LO from a metal spoon rather than plastic made a huge difference (who would have thought!). Glad to hear his bottles are fine. Hopefully he's making up for the food with milk. Anyway, maybe it's improved since you posted (??)

Skye - Gracie is down to 4 milk feeds in 24hrs. Occasionally 5 but rare these days. She has them roughly at 7am, 9.30am (sometimes - usually only a top up feed), 1pm, 4pm & 6.30pm. I've been BF the 7am feed but she's refusing all others from me so I'm expressing and also supp with formula. I don't know that there's any right or wrong, but I have read that by 6months(ish) babies can go up to 12hrs without a feed overnight. Gracie dropped her last nightfeed (the 10pm one) at about 6 months. But everybody's different so whatever you're comfortable with is perfect! I would hazard a guess that the only way you're probably going to help her reduce her feeds is to try and encourage full feeds when you want them, and then allow her to protest when you know she's just wanting a comfort feed. The older our LOs get, the more demanding they become!!!


Hope everyone else is going well. Miranda, I didn't realise Zeke was having surgery. All the best!!

Goodbye for now..