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BLW feel like giving up already...please help!
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we have been BLW for about a month although only 3 meals a day for the last 2 weeks since LO turned 6 months, we dont seem to be making any progress and we seem to lose his entire milk feed through projectile vomiting every meal time! he is happy to suck on cucumber, bread sticks, carrot, brocolli etc but everytime he gets any bits in his mouth he reaches and is very sick, it doesnt seem to bother him but i am worried as he isnt a great milk eater taking 5 or 6oz 4 times a day. How long was it before your LO's started to gag less and eat more? I have read the book and love the idea of BLW but am starting to panicking that we should have some progress, how long is it acceptable for my DS to be puking most of his milk?
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Their nappies will tell you a lot wether they are consuming much. She always had much more solid poo's so she was eating some even though it seemed to be everywhere in her hair, on the floor, on me, in the dog, up the walls etc!
I have always and still do offer some form of spoon fed food like a puree of whatever finger food she had or an organix or ellas pouch, a yogurt, mashed up foods anything to make sure something went in.
I think if you started a bit earlier then 6 months then his motor skills and hand eye co-ordination may not have been advanced enough or his jaw strong enough to mush the food up enough to get it, they really recommend 6 months due to baby needing to be strong in a few areas to fully feed themselves so give him time, make sure he is getting calcium rich foods to make up for his milk or you could offer purees and things with finger foods on the side to build him up to it.
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Hope this helps
Toby is 7 months oh and 1 day old and has mastered the technique now - he chews food with his gums and swallows most things now and his weight has really stabalised as i trust him to eat what he wants. The gagging has really calmed in the last 2 weeks and every day it gets better. BLW was the best decision i made i love the fact that he has such a healthy attitude to food and emaltimes are fun though very messy!
i never give toby a milk feed near a meal because if he did gag and it came up i know it would be all of his milk too!
7.30am milk
8am breakfast
11am - milk
12.30pm - lunch
4pm - milk
5.30pm - food
6.30pm - milk
bath
7ish milk
bed!
HTH x
I do
7am milk
8:30 am breakfast
she's just dropped 10am feed
1pm Lunch
3pm Milk
5pm Dinner
And Milk for bed.
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Personally I wouldn't supplement with purees as it goes against the whole ethos and like Summer76 has said to begin with I'd try and offer milk feeds at different times where you can.
Good luck, I've loved weaning this way and our ds will literally eat anything now x
at the moment we are doing
8am-milk
9am-i offer toast, melon, or other fruit
12noon-milk
12.45-i offer veg (brocolli, carrots cucumber and organix biscuit)
3.30-milk
4.30-more of the same or sometimes vegemite sarnie and breadsticks with houmous (he does seem to love those and think he manages to eat some breadstick)
6.30-milk and bed!
I will try to distance the milk feeds and solids a little more but with naps i find there are hardly enough hours in the day!! i think i need to relax as he seems to really enjoy the food but i was a little concerned about the of milk he was losing..i guess like anything....practice makes perfect!
Thanks again ladies x
I would maybe space milk a little more apart but think about how things are today and then next week reassess - hopefully with a small improvement.
Purrees are also more likely to make babies gag/sick as they suck off the spoon it flies straight in and a baboes gag reflex is not right at the back but more the middle of their mouth so therefore more likely to choke. blw honestly is amazing - just offer him one thing at a time and try to stay calm when he gags.
This was the most difficult thing but i know say - come on toby bring it round you can do it becasue to start babies will take the food in their mouth gag - work it back round to the front and either spit it out or chew again and then hopefully swallow - this is what the blw said and this is exactly what toby does - just incredible x