A.M.
Hi M.,
My son will be 8 months old at the end of the month and I don't give him solids for dinner. For breakfast,he gets a little less than 2 ounces of spoonfed cereal followed by almost 2 ounces of bottlefed formula. He is given the bottle for the rest of the day with the exception of midday snack of half a jar of a veggie or fruit babyfood. For dinner, he only has the bottle and the milk is warmed. I've been told by my pedi that breastmilk or formula should be their main food intake until they are one year old.
Maybe your baby wants the bottle for dinner?? Perhaps you can thicken the milk by adding just a little bit of cereal. Or you can warm it and increase the amount you usually give her.
Instead of making her full dinner a solid,try giving her just a little bit as a snack and feed her a full warmed bottle right before bedtime.
It could be that her tummy is not ready for all those solids in one day and by the time dinner comes around she's fussy from a tummy ache or something. Or maybe its just something simple like teething or the fact the she gets grumpy when she's tired like my little guy does.