Weaning an EBF baby help please!

[Lunaberry]

Hi
I'm currently on week 3 of weaning my EBF 6 month old DD but I'm starting to confuse myself with different information!
I've read they're still supposed to get their main nutrition from milk until about a year old. But also that they should be dropping milk feeds once weaning. Then there's vitamins I should be giving??!
I've chosen to start with purées (please no discussions on blw lol). We had a week of purées for lunch, offering milk before and after. Then introduced breakfasts same way. She lost interest so hv said she probably too full so we dropped the lunchtime milk feed and now she's loving breakfast and lunch.
But I'm confused about moving on.
When do you bring in 3 meals a day? How much should they eat? (Roughly as I know each baby is different). How much milk and when do you give them? Do you supplement with vitamins?
Sorry for the long post but I would really love to hear from EBF mums as to how you went about it. How long until they were on 3 meals a day and how much milk. All of my mummy friends moved onto formula at about 3 months so they're weaning with ozs iykwim.
Thanks xx

[Lunaberry]

Meant to say purees lol

[squizita]

I'm in the same position. I read up and also talked to other mums and the "middle ground" seems to be:
Add a meal a week if they seem ready.
Add strongly flavoured or allergy risk foods over 3 or 4 days.
Give a variety.
...Feed on demand about an hour before food, then as usual other times for now. I guess they will cut down themselves if full! Or at least that's what people told me so I'm going with that method.

[squizita]

...lol I mean an extra daily meal eg dinner. Not 1 meal a week.

[squizita]

Duh forgot. Baby brain. I'm going with 1-2 oz meals to start with as that's one boob full of milk so I know she can handle it!
And I give well baby drops for vitamins, there are cheaper ones. I believe vit D, B and iron are the key ones.

[Lunaberry]

Thanks Squizita.
It really is a minefield isn't it?!
Last couple of days I could have easily given her more food. This morning she wolfed her baby porridge down but then hadn't really been interested in much else today.
Will have to keep trying and see how it goes.
There's a nice guide on the website for the Wellkid vitamins. But again some of it contradicts other advice! It says to keep bf every 3-4 hours but my hv suggested I lose either mid morning or lunch milk feed as she was getting too full with breakfast and lunch so something had to give. Made sense to me cos surely the idea is to wean off milk but now I'm wondering if she isn't getting enough milk!!

[squizita]

My HV said "food is fun till 1" ie be led by their pace. I don't really want to cut milk feeds till I know what proteins she's keen on, as it seems daft to replace milk with carrot iyswim. I'd cut a milk feed if she was having some cheese, chicken etc.

[perfectlybroken]

I offered food 3 times a day from the beginning, so it was the amounts I increased rather than the amount of times iyswim
the only alteration I made to bf was to feed after rather than before a meal. I agree with previous poster, fun til 1. If you know they are getting enough from milk you can make the weaning process more about exploring and getting used to food. I.didnt read anything though, so might have it all wrong

[firsttimemothergoose]

It's so hard isn't it? I'm the kind of person who likes a to have a plan. I need someone to write out a timetable!

I think I might try to introduce a dinner and introduce proteins now too for lunch and dinner. Then I'll work on the amount. DD eats lots and I'm worried about her not taking enough milk but seems ok at the moment.

Thanks for the reassurance!

[Lunaberry]

Don't believe I wrote along reply earlier and can't find it now!

Just wanted to say thanks all. It's good knowing not the only one.

I remembered last night I was lie this with things in the early weeks. Like you I like to have a plan and tend to overthink and research too much. In the end my instincts were right.

So think I'm going to try take a little more from that with this. Will bring in extra meal next week then stick with fruit and veg until 7 months then include protein. Will stick to same feeds but offer it after lunch instead of before then take it from there.
She's booked in to be weighed next week so that should tell me if she's doing ok! Xx