weaning advice for a first time mum

[Cheeseymondo]

Hi, my LO is 5 months and he’s on 5, 7oz bottles a day. I am planning with trying him on a little baby porridge, just for him to get used to a different food in his mouth. Until January when I’m going to a baby led weaning group. But where I could do with advice is on this transition period for weaning from bottle,

• which bottle do you drop for the porridge
  
• how much formula do you do when they also have porridge in their diet
  
• what timings do you move to, currently we r 3 hours for his bottles.
  
• does moving to solids move day time naps.
  

Any sleep / feed plans anyone is doing for weaning would be appreciated. We have. 6.30 start to our day at present with a 7pm bed time.

[userabcname]

I believe you give food alongside their usual milk. I offer milk before solids - I do breastfeed but I assume it's the same with formula. I have been weaning for the past couple of weeks as LO is 6 months and we still have the same number of feeds as he doesn't eat enough to really fill him up at this stage.

[April45]

Don’t worry about dropping milk to start with - once you offer food and see how little they take you’ll see. If you’re thinking of doing blw without purée you’ll more than likely drop milk later than if you spoon feed too. Each babies different. Is there any reason you’ve chosen porridge? Pear, sweet pot, carrots are lovely first tastes.

I found when DS began eating 3 meals this guided our routine (although we weren’t that structured before).

If you’re wanting to start just give a few tastes and you’ll gradually find your way. Sorry sounds vague but go with it, it does work out and your baby will let you know when they want more because they look like a baby bird or reach for more and if they’ve had enough they don’t eat it.

[EveryoneTalkAboutPopMusic]

Firstly, is there a reason that you are considering Weaning early? Is he meeting all of the signs of readiness? That’s not said in a judgey way either, my DC2 didn’t make it to the recommended 6 months but was displaying all of the signs [fsnile]

The current guidelines are to offer solids just once a day at first, and it doesn’t have to be every day, working upto 3 meals between 8 and 9 months and to offer any solids roughly an hour after their usual milk feed.

Starting solids at this stage will probably be a bit time consuming as he will still have all of his bottles, plus you’ll most probably have to feed him the solids. It will be a while before he starts to drop his bottles