Weaning Question

[BibbleBrain]

I’m having one of my periodic panics about weaning and breastfeeding (I’m not cut out for the lack of ml markings on the boob).

Baby is almost 9 months tends to eat good breakfast and tea and a hot and miss lunch. He also has following feeds:

Wake up (rubbish hardly has anything)
Between 9-10 decent feed pre whatever nonsense he decides constitutes a nap
Between 1-2:30 second decent feed
6pm nibble
Between 7-8:30 third decent feed
Overnight anything between 1-5 fourth decent feed

Does that sound normal/ average. He seems to be gaining weight steadily so he’s having enough nutrition between feeds and solids. My worry is purely nutrition as I know how important milk is pre 1.

My anxiety stems from fact he fed 10-12 times a day to six months, kept up 8 a day for first month of weaning and has suddenly dropped a lot.

Health visitors have been deeply unhelpful and will only say milk is important...

I have no actual advice, only that my son of the same age sounds similar! Just the other way round, eats lots in the morning, toast, yoghurt, fruit, eats sporadically throughout the day, and by the evening isn’t fussed and enjoys dropping food on the floor from the high chair! He’s with a childminder in the day and has 10-12 oz of expressed milk, plus evening 1-2 BFs and throughout the night on demand. So sounds pretty similar!

I didn't follow all her advice, but did like the Gina Ford schedule for feeding when I introduced weaning last winter. So my 9 month old fed: 7am, 11.45, 2.30, 5 and 6.30pm. It wasn't spot on depending on naps but worked quite well for us. 5 feeds a day seems good even if one of those isn't great, but if he is feeding at 5am we'll as a fifth feed then probably why the wake up first feed is lacking.
It was around then I stopped milk overnight and actually realised that my daughter wasn't hungry for it, just woke up and I responded by feeding her rather than her being hungry. Just if that helps. Then the wake up feed might be better?

Sounds the same as my DD, who is same age. She's down to around four breastfeeds a day on average now and is a good and varied eater. They do get more efficient at feeding when they grow too so they can get more in a short period of time. It's rare she feeds for longer than 15 mins now.

Really appreciate posts. Reassuring!

@OlderthenYoungerNow I have the same suspicion but don’t dare night wean until he’s a bit closer to a year. I’m too anxious despite the fact I suspect he’d quickly take to it!

@Celebelly he oscillates wildly between super efficient and sucking forever which am sure is comfort esp as its before sleeps generally.

@MilkLady02 I’m just about to introduce toady as a finger food. Do you make it soft/ barely or just normal toasted?

You wouldn’t think I’ve already done this once?

Or even toast not toady

With both of mine by 7 months I was sticking to a schedule of:
Wake up and bf around 7
Breakfast 8
Bf 10.30/11
Lunch 12
Nap 1-3 ish
Bf at waking around 3
Dinner 5
Bf before bed 7
1-2 feeds in night.

At 10 months swapped mid morning feed for a snack. At 11 months with DC1 swapped mid afternoon one for a bottle. DC2 never took a bottle though. At 12 months swapped mid afternoon bf/bottle for cow's milk. At 13 swapped morning for cow's and at 14 swapped bedtime for cow's.

Your schedule sounds totally fine to me.

Sounds absolutely fine to me.
Mine is 9 months and has breakfast at 7, milk feed at 9ish, lunch at 12, milk at 2.30ish, dinner at 5, milk at 7ish and then milk around 5.30am.
He far prefers food to milk, we did BLW and he happily feeds himself meat/pasta/sandwiches/omelettes etc (basically whatever his older sisters eat).

I do his toast a bit less than mine, warm and a bit crispy but not too brown! He likes normal butter or peanut butter on it!