DD is coming up for 6 months. BF was a complete mess up for lots of reasons that are too boring to go into again (I'll save that for my late night guilt sessions) so she's been bottle fed exclusively on formula since about 6 weeks. She's fed on demand, except first thing in the morning when I feed her anyway because after 14 hours without a bottle she must need some!, but doesn't seem to know where the bottom of the bottle is and so eats 4 7oz bottles a day. She sleeps well at the moment and has done for about 6 weeks.
I want to do baby led weaning, partly to compensate for the bad start and partly because it seems to make sense and less work to me, but am terrified of changing what currently works so well. So I'm on here in the hope that Aitch and her cohorts can give me some backbone by answering the following:
Do I start straight out on 3 meals a day?
If she's having a bottle at 7 a.m., is it OK to give her breakfast at 8? I don't want to overfeed her either...
Will she start to cut down on the milk she drinks (and does it matter if she doesn't), or have I broken my baby by messing up BF and reaching for the bottle?
P.S. I did try Aitch's blog but can't figure out how it works. I went back to work this week and my brain is too full to cope.
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BLW, breast feeding f up, sheer terror of change now things are going well - advice please!
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BlueyDragon · 07/07/2007 10:53
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