Hello. I've been attempting weaning with LO, who is 7 months 1 week, for just over a month. He has been pretty much EBF to date. Things seemed to be going ok for the first week or so, but since then he has generally objected if I put a spoon anywhere near his mouth. I've tried giving him his own spoon to hold, but he will use that like a teether and bat away the loaded spoon - the only times he has tolerated spoon feeding even slightly have been for super sweet foods like Petit Filou, which I'm not keen on giving him, and mashed up prunes.
I've also tried baby led weaning with buttered toast soldiers, apple slices etc. He will sometimes suck them, but prefers to wave then around and throw them on the floor without putting them anywhere near his mouth. Either way next to nothing gets eaten.
He totally refuses a sippy cup, getting cross and batting it away if I put it anywhere near his mouth. He has now also started to refuse to take formula from a bottle, which he used to accept on the odd occasion we offered it. Yesterday he had a furious crying fit when I tried to offer a bottle of formula in place of a BF.
Basically, it seems as though he's decided it's breast or nothing, which would be fine, except I'm starting back at work in a couple of weeks!
Can you offer any advice? Could I be doing something wrong? Thank you!
[Trudges off despondently to sweep toast soldiers up from the floor]
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7 month old EBF baby just not interested and off to childminder in a couple of weeks - help!
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Biped · 13/01/2014 09:44
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