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@lindseykaye: I'm glad it was helpful! I'm also going to be looking into whole milk Greek yogurt if I can find it. I didn't see any at TJ's that didn't have sugar listed as an ingredient. I bought some tofu for him to try too.

if your LO eats finger foods, how did you know when they were ready? so my LO eats mum mum's but that's about it. i'm not sure when to start giving her pieces of fruits and veggies tho. it doesn't seem like she really chews her purees so i don't know if she knows how to chew. my fear of choking is making me hesitant but i also dont want LO to be eating purees forever! any advice would be helpful!

@kodybear: The actions within the mouth for purees vs. food is different. Puree is sucked off the spoon and immediately goes to the back of the mouth. Finger foods are chewed from the front and LO has to move it to the back and work on it as it moves.

I gave her a banana flavored mum mum this weekend and she made the most hilarious faces!!

We are still on only green purees and cereals...but DH really, really, really wants her to be a healthy eater with a taste for veggies so he's hoping this helps things LOL. We'll see!

@highwire: Sounds like a good gradual plan. Are you planning to add more formula as you go or hoping that her milk/formula needs decrease with her increase in solids? I don't really have a specific plan for weaning, but I'm soooooo looking forward to pumping less.

@highwire: good plan. I haven't even thought that far ahead!

@travelgirl1: I had to come up with some kind of plan to keep me going in the early days

@highwire: LO loves carrots mixed with banana, it's one of her favorites. But then again she would probably eat anything mixed with banana

I am slowly weaning N as well, albeit not as organized. My supply has slowly been decreasing since I stopped working (and pumping) in April so we're just going 50/50 from my freezer stash and I'm only nursing once a day. My stash will run out in the next week =(. I did all sorts of things to try to keep up my supply - drinking gallons of mother's milk tea, coconut water, pumping after every nursing session, adding an extra pump before bed, it was so much work and I still wasn't keeping up with him. He went from 95th percentile to 86th at his last check up, gaining only 1.5 pounds in two months. Being a nursing mom is such a big part of my identity and it is really hard to let go! Anyway, N's eating schedule now looks like this:

6am - nurse
9am - breakfast (cereal and fruit/veggie puree, sometimes tiny cubes of toast)
11am - bottle
1 pm - lunch/snack - yogurt and fruit puree
3pm - bottle
6:30pm - dinner (meal puree, or he feeds himself pasta, veggies, pieces of chicken)
8:30pm - bottle

I've pretty much stopped nursing unless he really needs the comfort and stopped pumping altogether. I am never engorged anymore and hardly ever feel full. He is doing just fine on formula, and although I mourn the ability to nourish my child from my body, I refuse to feel guilty about it.

@kml636: i've given LO some chicken. she still doesn't really seem like she likes food in general tho. she is just tolerating it. she does seem to like finger foods better than purees tho so i'll probably try to offer her more finger foods.

@MamaChin: i know how you feel! i went through the same feelings when i gave up nursing bc of latch issues (tongue and lip tie). i EP but can't make enough milk for her so she gets about half formula. i'm trying to keep pumping until 1 year but since AF came back last month my supply takes a huge hit around that time. i always question if i should keep going! bleh

@kml636: I made up one puree with chicken/sweet potato/grapes and one with beef/sweet potato/carrot/peas and froze them in batches and she gets one of those a night. So far she likes it! I haven't given her fish or pork yet though. Oh and she's had turkey too.

We've started doing some BLW and I love it! She never tolerated being spoon fed so I used to give her loaded spoons for her to smear over herself/drop on the floor and perhaps eat a tiny bit of, ha ha. Anyway she's taken to finger food like you wouldn't believe! Her favourite thing by far though is a mix of natural yoghurt and mango puree that I froze in ice cube trays and give her in a mesh feeder for a cool treat - girlfriend loves some dessert, she's going to be just like her mama

N recently decided he hates being spoon fed. I've had to make up dinner on the fly a couple times and it makes me crazy! Last night for dinner, after refusing his favorite dinner purée (turkey and rice), I cooked some pasta, microwaved frozen broccoli and stole some of the dog's chicken (poached plain) and he fed himself. Made a mess but at least he ate something. Gone are the days where I just have to pick a different color purée than the last one he had!!

man, you guys are making me feel so boring with our food choices! i need to branch out and try giving M some of these things. we pretty much just do the organic pouches of purees, but I will also make easy stuff like mashed avocado and bananas. i want to try that chicken puree a few of you have mentioned. i am a horrible cook so i guess i am just worried whatever i make wont turn out right and she will hate it. the pouches are just so easy! she also has no teeth so finger foods scare me.

Finished nursing last week. Was a little sad but now I'm excited because I feel okay leaving him with the Grandparents for a get-away with the hubs! @highwire your plan is very similiar to what I did. I slowly took away a feeding and replaced it with a bottle of formula or solid. I continued to pump at first and have frozen a good supply. So I give him some frozen milk every few days. I guess it is my way of feeling like I'm still providing good mommy's juice for a little longer. We aren't doing to well on the finger foods. We can do the mum mums and wagon wheels pretty good. But he gags on the avacado slices. I think I'm doing to big of a slice and he isn't swallowing what is already in his mouth before the next bite. Will keep trying. We have a good mix of puree going on from veggies to fruits and mixture of fruit/veggies.
How many oz is everyone's eating right now? Mine is still around 6 oz but will occassionally do a full 9oz bottle.

@turkeylurkey: Wow! 9oz? That would be two of my LO's bottles, but he only gets breast milk and there's no way I could give him that much in one bottle because there's no way that my body would produce that much for a feeding (with the exception of first thing in the morning and that's only because I have religiously pumped after first feeding since my LO STTN).

@mrsjyw: @highwire: I"m so over pumping. I'm doing only one session while I'm at work. That's it.

Packed away my pump this week, that was SWEET. N has enough frozen milk to mix with formula until 9 months, he doesn't seem to be able to tell the difference taste wise from bm and formula? Not even a wrinkle of the brow or anything!

He' been eating puree and finger foods like I starve him? He's been eating about 15oz total a day of cereal, purees and yogurt PLUS finger foods like fruit and puffs after each meal while I do the dishes. He ate a whole pint of blueberries (cut in half) over 4 days. He never drank a big amount of milk, he is getting a little less than 20oz a day over 4 feedings.