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@mrs. wagon: Thanks for sharing !

I can't help but wonder it looks like you weaned at 8 months even though your baby nursed! I am starting to wean him off of breastmilk now only because he's refusing me and it's been a pain in the butt to pump and feed.

From your experience did he have constipation problems after switching to formula? Just wondering..

@Mrsbells: I am thinking about that too.... it is so weird because when we first started, he'd take the bottle fine after lunch. I don't know what is up with this week because he'd be a pain at his before bed nursing/bottle too! So he basically missed 2 bottles thus waking up at night. Sigh. Maybe I'll stop lunch for a bit and see what happens. If he starts drinking more again then I'll reintroduce lunch....

@sarac: I wouldn't worry too if my LO eats as well as yours does! This morning at 6:20a he drank 4.5 oz breastmilk (He recently decided he is done with nursing, DONE :'( ). at 7:40 I made some oatmeal cereal mixed with blueberries and banana, and he only ate a few bites and kept rubbing his face and refusing to take more! I also made avocado with banana, he also wouldn't eat. Then I opened some yogurt he ate a few more bites. I then chopped up some grapes and put out some cheerios he ate maybe a few pieces. Sigh! All that effort for maybe 1 oz of food into his stomach

@autumnlove: Thanks! Yes sometimes I save the milk for the next feeding too.... but sometimes I couldn't save it because the nutritionist we saw (we have weight gaining issues cuz of how much LO doesn't like to eat) advised us to put 1 tsp of formula powder into each 2 oz of breastmilk. So with that mixed in I am not sure if the milk can last another 3 hours. Then now we are cutting into our frozen milk reserve, and when the frozen milk is warmed up I didn't want to put it back to the fridge for the next feeding as I don't know if they are still good. Sigh!

@Mrs. Bee: LO doesn't like to EAT in general. haha. sigh.

It doesn't matter... if we offer milk first, he'd drink maybe 3-5 oz, then he'd not want to eat that much solids. If we offer solids first, he'd eat maybe 2-3 oz of food, then he'd not want to drink milk. I seriously don't know what fuels him.

@Mrs. Bee: I don't even know if he's not ready or if he just doesn't like to eat. I don't know if he's ready ever. Today he ate only a few bites at breakfast (he drank 4.5 oz about an hour before), a few chopped up fruit / cheese at lunch (3 oz bottle after), then took him forever to eat a few bites at dinner (but he did drink a 5 oz bottle an hour before). I don't even know how could he eat so much less than all babies at the same age.

He's super picky too. Nowadays when I give him cereal with fruit he just acts like I am making him eat poo. He used to eat yogurt with no problem but this morning he acted weird. I made lamb puree with tomatoes and sweet potatoes - it was a hit a week ago and today he didn't want it anymore. I used to make chicken porridge which was a hit for weeks and also failing now. I am running out of ideas what to feed him. Argh!

@rachiecakes: That's 6 milk feedings. Good for you! My LO would go crazy if we feed him that many times. It is already very challenging to get the 5 milk feedings in. He very seldomly would cry for hunger. Even if he wakes up in the morning he doesn't usually cry for hunger.

I like your schedule but he usually wakes around 6-6:30am, and his last bottle (he decided he's done with nursing just a few days ago :'( ) is at 7pm so he goes to sleep at around 715pm.