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Bangton

Size wise I have an almost 6 month old who's moved into 9-12 months for tops but 6-9 month for trousers, dungarees, sleepsuits. Length wise he's on the 91st centile and weight wise the 85th. I'm finding tops are always coming up short on his torso so although 9-12 months are a bit flappy width wise is better than half mast. He's also in 6-12 month sleep sacks but I'm going to have to move to 12-18 months as his feet touch the bottom. He's outgrown his car seat foot muff as he's too long for me to zip it too! But he's gorgeous so I can't begrudge the money I'm spending replacing clothes! !! Quick weaning question. . He's really not fussed for milk now at all. . Already. He's on 2 meals a day but only purees so far or porridge as one meal is his breakfast. Is it normal after 4 weeks for him to drop his milk? He's gone from 38oz to only 25 yesterday and will not have milk at all on waking even if I give him no breakfast. He's almost sleeping through, waking once for a quick bottle and then back down around 11 so it's not like he's having alot on a night to be too full for breakfast milk. (He will have porridge btw just not milk? )

BeNiceToMySelf

big hugs Mrs H, think I missed the actual post but sounds like you need hugs x

LO is between 0.2 and 2nd percentile so just moved into 3-6 months but seems to fit the sleepsuits in length too! maybe 3-6 months is the band where babies grow out of them quickest.

sunshine_1988

Smoothies sound yum Nutella we were boring and did the usual weetabix and toast.

I started having my shoppping delivered, hadnt done it till about a month ago. Found it easier as like you Gilly I was having to go in the evenings and wasnt getting back and sitting down for tea until 9:00ish.

My OH is at work today, gonna attempt to get A his haircut and then maybe pop to he next sale. It looks sunny here but I reckon its colder than I think.

Havr a good day all x x x x

*Nutella*

LO is currently munching raw broccoli! :eek: I gave her cucumber and carrot sticks with hummous for her snack, and added some broccoli too - and to my surprise she's actually eating it!

katiechoc_2

Ooh I've been meaning to try smoothies for G, you've reminded me Nutella! He guzzled his milk this morning - I left the room for a minute and heard a suspicious hiccup and came back to find him sat in a sicky milk puddle on the sofa. Not the greatest at 6.05am. Fine in himself though - think he just drank too much too quickly.

My oh has officially finished work and is back here permanently woop! G and I got the bus down to London on Thursday, then bus acrosslondon and train out to Surrey. It went totally without a hitch! G was so good, didn't moan or whine once! Just looked out the window and shouted out "digger" every time he saw one .

amus

Bangton wrote: »

Size wise I have an almost 6 month old who's moved into 9-12 months for tops but 6-9 month for trousers, dungarees, sleepsuits. Length wise he's on the 91st centile and weight wise the 85th. I'm finding tops are always coming up short on his torso so although 9-12 months are a bit flappy width wise is better than half mast. He's also in 6-12 month sleep sacks but I'm going to have to move to 12-18 months as his feet touch the bottom. He's outgrown his car seat foot muff as he's too long for me to zip it too! But he's gorgeous so I can't begrudge the money I'm spending replacing clothes! !! Quick weaning question. . He's really not fussed for milk now at all. . Already. He's on 2 meals a day but only purees so far or porridge as one meal is his breakfast. Is it normal after 4 weeks for him to drop his milk? He's gone from 38oz to only 25 yesterday and will not have milk at all on waking even if I give him no breakfast. He's almost sleeping through, waking once for a quick bottle and then back down around 11 so it's not like he's having alot on a night to be too full for breakfast milk. (He will have porridge btw just not milk? )

I think once they have tasted real food milk becomes less appealing! They do slow down in growth as they get older, looking at my weaning chart they should still be having 28-32oz per day. Milk intake does gradually reduce the more they eat though IME.

ETA milk added to cereals e.g. Porridge also counts towards that 28-32oz figure.

BeNiceToMySelf

forgot to say BLW going well, LO managing to have strawberries, oranges and broccoli in week one. Not too keen on aubergine I think...

Bangton

amus wrote: »

I think once they have tasted real food milk becomes less appealing! They do slow down in growth as they get older, looking at my weaning chart they should still be having 28-32oz per day. Milk intake does gradually reduce the more they eat though IME.

ETA milk added to cereals e.g. Porridge also counts towards that 28-32oz figure.

Ahh I didn't know milk in cereals/porridge counts! Thanks for that. He's defo not having 28oz. Usually 25 and he has 5 teaspoons of puree at each meal before he rejects the rest. I'm surprised really. He's a big baby and I expected him to chug it all down and he's totally not!

Gillyx

Size of child has no indication of food intake, if that helps at all so aslong as he's content and happy I'd not worry

We started on pur!es but very quickly moved to all finger foods, so I found when we did his milk intake shot up again for a small while until he got to grips with fully feeding himself, but by around 8/9 months he only had 2 bottles a day, both 9oz. He hasn't had any milk at all now for around 9 months (he's 26 months soon) not completely relevant to yourself but a typical day for him will be 3 weetabix or 2 bowls of puffed wheats, a slice of toast or a croissant and some fruit (a peach/pear similar) lunch something like a sandwich, handful of crispy things, some batons of veg with dip, fruit and a yog, a snack of an oaty bar or similar in the pm, and then dinner of say spag Bol with one slice of garlic bread and then a yog afterwards. So I just look at it as he doesn't need any milk, not that he'd have it anyway... But he's only started eating as well, he never used to eat so well, but after reading the BLW book, (even if you don't BLW) it really reassured me that they know themselves what they need, and even now if I feel like oh god he's having a carb feast today, when I look over the whole week it's actually pretty balanced between everything.

Gosh that was long sorry x

sunshine_1988

Id agree with gilly above. My LO was fairly big when he was little but when we moved to solids he had a small appetite. I worried about it for quite a while and used to want to feed him more but the reality is he just has a small appetite. He eats everything we give him, just not a big portion. Some days he will eat a lot more than usual where as some days he hardly eats much, but as gilly says if you balance it over the week it averages out.
For example, we only manage one weetabix where as gillys LO has three. He still has a drink of milk morning and night though, but only if he wants it.

Hi ladies cot sides coming off has gone really well here, much to our surprise. He has a little monkey toy from next in his bed and for some reason calls it monkey head....no idea why! Seems to work a charm at bed time though so I wont complain x x x