Milk

Just water and milk during the day and breastmilk when you're together should be fine tbh! That's what we're doing and my little girl is also quite petite. There's nothing inherently wrong in being small/petite unless she's dropping centiles in which case I'd get a referral to a pediatric dietician! X

@Paulina thank you. She is in fact dropping on the centiles, practically off the chart, so I'm waiting to see the paediatrician later this month as I'm not sure what's going wrong 😥

So practical things you can do, is making sure to put extra calories in the meals she's eating at home (and potentially talk to nursery about it as well!) - lots of coconut milk/cream/oil, full fat Greek yogurt (avoid flavoured yoghurts which tend to have very little fat and lots of sugar), avocado, basically anything that's rich in healthy fats, as well as stuff like sweet potatoes, lentils etc which are also quite nutritionally dense. Milk is awesome but it's not quite as calorific!

In terms of what's going wrong... Hmm mine dropped a line when she started walking - could it have been something to do with your little one moving more as well?
Do you know what exactly she's eating at nursery? Some of them have appallingly poor menus which isn't ok given how much we have to pay!

Hope your little one gets back on track :) xx

@Paulina thanks so much. She's on a high calorie diet yet still losing. The nursery is even adding a high calorie oil specifically for cooking her meals and trying to give her high calorie foods where they can. She's not walking yet but she's moving about loads and I don't think she's eating more calories to make up for it. Every day I'm asking about portion sizes and she does eat less than the others because she eats much slower but they feel she eats enough for them to not worry about her food intake!

She used to LOVE avocados and sweet potato when we started weaning and now she just outright refuses to have either.. so frustrating! She eats a few bites of food and is done. Then wants something else. I'm so envious when I see all the babies eating lots more 😭