Weaning lapse

We were doing really well with weaning and I'd got into a great routine with my boy. He'd have 3-4 bottles a day (roughly 22-30oz a day) plus 3 meals, snacks and water. He's not been himself for the past couple of weeks for different reasons. Firstly he was teething and went off all of his solids completely, would only have half of his usual milk intake for a week (was only having 15oz a day and nothing else🤦🏼‍♀️) Last week we started to slowly get back into our routine of solids and he also upped his milk intake again, got back to about 20-30oz and would have at least 2 meals each day. However, now he's got a cold so he's drinking a lot more milk and I've been feeding him basically on demand again because I'd rather him hydrate as much as possible while he's poorly - and tbh I'm just glad that he's eating again after his intake dropping so much - I've not really focused much on solids for the past few days, I've been giving him Readybrek in a morning mixed with his milk, but not really been giving him anything else other than milk. But he's gone back to having 5-6 bottles every day (35-42oz) plus the milk that's mixed into his Readybrek. So yesterday he had 47oz in total🤦🏼‍♀️. I know that's a crazy amount it's the most he's ever had, I didn't realise until the end of the day when I totalled up his intake. It's because he'd had 6 bottles, plus 5oz mixed with Readybrek in the morning. Should I try to drop the bottles again and get back to solids or is it ok to just focus on his milk while he's poorly? Just worried I'm giving him too much milk tbh😂

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Bless him if he’s not himself it’s probably a comfort thing And if he’s teething too. Maybe chewing is painful? If we have sore mouth as adults even we tend miss out certain foods I always follow their lead and gradually introduce so just start slowly again with purées in case it’s is painful I had start stop mine at beginning too There’s no rules or timeline They’ll all eat happy meals by time their 6 anyway 😊

@Laura-louise yeah that's true I think he's just got it all going on. He's definitely getting more comfort out of his milk because he's been so congested from his cold, had a bit of a temp, aswell as pain from teething so it seems to be the only thing that soothes him atm and since he was refusing his milk just a week ago I don't want to knock it I'm just glad he's happily taking it😅. I just always have it in the back of my mind about health visitors etc, insisting on them having a set 3 meals a day and maximum of 3 bottles etc. We were at that point but completely back-tracked on it all recently. So true about the happy meals though🤣 we worry for nothing really don't we. As long as they're fed and happy all that matters and they all grow the same way x

@Caitlin my little one is teething too and when really painful he's loves cold food so like yogurt, cucumber or strawberries. Also my HV has never said a certain amount of meals or bottles etc she actually said don't worry if he doesn't drop any milk as some babies still want the same amount and the food aswell. Also she said its all about food being fun at this age and not to worry about it let the baby lead you just expose to lots of tastes and flavours. I'm sure he'll be back to eating as soon as he feels more himself x

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