Baby is just starting solids and we're still working on a good schedule for milk / solids / sleep. What are your schedules like?
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Weekdays: 6:30 am - wake up, nurse 10 am - 4 oz BM, 1.5-2 oz solids 1 pm - 7 oz BM, rice rusks and puffs, cheese 4 pm - 4 oz BM, 1.5-2 oz solids 6:30 pm - Nurse, sometimes top off with bottle as necessary 7 pm - bedtime Weekends 6:30 am - wake up, nurse 8:30 - 9 am - Nurse, then solids 11 am - Nurse, snack on cheese and finger foods 1 pm - Nurse 4 pm - Nurse, then solids 6:30 pm - Nurse, top off if necessary 7 pm - bedtime I try to nurse more frequently on weekends to keep up supply, also nurse on demand so if she's hungry then i'll feed her regardless of time. During the week I send milk and solids to daycare, and on weekends I try to fit in solids twice a day, sometimes I don't make it but it's ok. Starting next month we're doing solids 3x a day and gradually decreasing the milk and increasing solids. I weaned her from night feeding gradually at 6.5 months, and she just eats more during the day to compensate.
Interesting - so you feed her solids at the same feeding as breastmilk? I've been separating them since I assumed he'd be too full following BM to immediately eat solids...
@Tram - I always do milk first, and then solids. It's ok to feed them both at the same time! Since they should be getting most of their nutrition through milk, I do milk first. Not sure what they do at daycare but they tell me she eats all her solids and drinks all her milk. I also offer a little bit of water inbetween bites of food because she's been constipated since starting solids, and try to incorporate yogurt and prunes into her food every few days.
We had to wean my son at 6 months of age so from then on he was on formula. Our daily schedule when he was on a bottle was wake up about 6:30 a.m. then have a morning bottle. Eat breakfast about 8 a.m. then take a nap approximately 9 a.m. with a bottle before nap. Then lunch time at noon with a sippy of water. Then nap time approximately 2 p.m. with a bottle before nap. Then dinner time around 5 and but I'm about 6:30 with a bottle before going to bed
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We started solids once/day with our daughter at 4 months when she started showing an interest in our food. At 6 months we upped it to 2x/day, but she ate maybe a couple of bites and preferred to get full from nursing. It was a struggle, sometimes I just left off the 2nd meal if she wasn't into it. Then at month 8, we added the 3rd meal, and she suddenly started finishing a lot of her solids (3.5-4 oz each time) and getting on a more consistent eating schedule: wake up in the morning/from each nap and nurse, followed by a fruit/veggie pouch and finger snacks after about an hour. She eats the least for lunch, so I give her favorite meal of yogurt then so she'll eat more and also take her out for an activity beforehand.