Aunty Lactivist is all of us. So if you have personal or professional experience of weaning or even just opinion please put on your agony aunt hat and help us out with a reply to this question.
Dear Aunty Lactivist My son is 8 months old (to the day) and is still very much set on breastfeeding all the time. I have tried various times to begin weaning him but he may try something but then refuse to have anymore. It has been very stop start for two months and I’m wondering if this has happened to others? I am happy to breastfeed him and plan on doing so for a long time yet, but I can’t help but get anxious over the weaning and whether I should be doing something more or different. I started him on purees then moved to baby led weaning on the advise of a friend. He won’t take either, but will squish the hand held food happily in his hands. Many thanks, T|
 
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Get a copy of the BLW book if you don’t have it already, my 13 month old was very similar and still is sometimes.
Relax. He won’t starve himself and your milk is still most important. Think of mealtimes as play and exploration not eating, he doesn’t yet understand that eating this food will stop him being hungry like milk does. Eat the same foods, together. He’ll get there
Email me if you want to chat more, small girl grumpy so only quick reply here.
Liz. X. Kindredliz@hotmail.com
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Babies are clever little things and know what they need, when they need it and how much they need. My baby ate no solids at all until nearly a year old. Was simply not interested in solid food but breastfed very regularly and is now a healthy 2 year old with a love of a wide range of healthy foods. The idea of Baby Led Weaning is just that – it’s baby led. If you breastfeed on demand and allow him access to food sometimes he will eat when he’s ready. It’s easy to panic when everyone around you has babies who eat loads of solids but they are all different and most people do parent led weaning so BLW is a difficult thing for people to get their head round! Your son knows what he is doing! Good luck.
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My son, now 12mo, did the same thing when we started him. He’s still more interested in breastfeeding, and I am just following his lead.
I read somewhere (wish I could remember what book so I could point you to it) that babies suseptable to food allegies will instinctially refuse solids until much later in infancy.
I say keep letting him squish & play & breastfeeding on demand & he’ll start when he’s ready!
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My daughter is currently 13 months and still won’t really eat solids. She’s as healthy as can be on breastmilk and I know a few people who’s breastfed child didn’t start solids till 18 months. The best thing I can think of is eat all meals together as a family and plop whatever you’re eating on your babies highchair. Eventually squishing will turn into tasting and then eating.
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We did Baby Led Weaning with Henry & found it worked wonders, but required a lot of patience and a relaxed parenting approach. The more anxious we became, the less he ate. Also, 8 months is still very young for a baby to bs getting any significant nutrition from food. Remember that food is fun until 1 and try to forget how much he is eating. Make sure he has had a milk feed before you sit him down to *play* with food so that he is not over hungry and in a good mood. It will take him a few months to learn that food can satisfy hunger just as well as milk can, but at the moment he doesnt yet know what food is for.
I found that the less I watched over Henry, the happier he was to play with food, so make sure you offer at family meal times and that he can see you eating while he plays, then his natural instinct to copy will mean he plays at eating just like you.
The one thing I would stress is to relax! The more you push it the harder it gets, so pretend you aren’t weaning, but rather letting him do some messy play with food & see what happens!
I hope that helps!
xxx
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Till 2 a child can depend on breastmilk for about 40 to 70 % of its intake!
I let my girl in the lead, kept offering all kinds of foods (not so much liquids) never mashed or pureed. Alwayt things she could pick up and nibble on, or even suck om as she did a lot (broccoli fe)
Till she was more than 2 years old she hardly ate anything solid. She was healthy, energetic, happy and all, so we did not worry about it. Afetr 2 she started to take more gradually. She is 3 y 4 m now and still nursing 3 times a day and few times a nigt. She is eating all kinds of solids. There is nog a lot she doesn t like. But ist is never much. Looking at her, it seems to be just right.
So keep offering, be patiant, vary in what you offer.
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I cannot thank you girls enough for your advice.
I feel so much more confident now that what I am doing is fine for him and that the breastfeeding is not hindering him into not weaning as quick as others.
It is true that my friends babies who are all around the same age are eating three meals a day and wolf their food down so I am seeing this and worrying – needlessly as I have learnt – they are not breastfed babies.
I am so grateful to you all.xx
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Thanks T, I’m really pleased Aunty Lactivist helped, please let us all know how he gets on!
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“food before 1 is just for fun, food after 2 is to chomp and chew!”
as long as they are healthy, active and happy, dont stress as a child will not starve themselves
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