2 feeds a day OK at 9 months?

[Weissbier]

My DD is nearly ten months and since she started eating more solids she's lost interest in bfing. Now I feed her in the early morning and before she goes to bed, sometimes once in the night too but she often just wants her dummy. I used to feed her mid-afternoon but she wasn't always interested so I stopped and she doesn't seem bothered at all. Is that OK? Should I be giving her extra milk to drink? Other than the bfing, she just drinks water. She has a yoghurt mid-afternoon and a big bowl of milk porridge before she goes to bed and is full of beans and eats well.

My DS did the same at this age - he just wouldn't demand the feed until about 4.30-5ish at 9months and then by 10 months it had gone as it was tea before he seemed to need it. He's 3 now and no seeming ill-effects :) I did make sure he was offered water a lot and made an extra effort to offer yoghurt, milk, cheese and calcium rich foods at most meals. So I wouldn't worry too much. My 7.5mo DD is down to 3 daytime feeds and it wouldn't surprise me if she ends up the same as DS, dropping that middle of the day one around 9-10 months.

Thanks Tortilla, that's reassuring!

Don't think she'd ask for any feeds if I didn't offer them - more into her sippy cup, slices of toast etc. I was wondering if I should give her some formula in her cup to bump up the amount of milk she has, although DH tried with some frozen expressed milk when I was out and said she was totally uninterested.

My DTs were onto 2 feeds a day (am and pm) at 9 mos. They were ebf but just took to food really quickly. They just had water as well too.

I wouldn't worry. I was exactly the same as you with DS who is now 15months. He wouldn't take a bottle and although he'd drink (a little) water from a cup at that age, point blank refused milk. I got really paranoid as he was only having morning and bedtime breastfeeds and of course you don't know how much they're getting from those. I just made sure he had plenty of milk on his porridge for breakfast (you don't say if your DD eats a solid breakfast as well as the bf? I used to BF DS about 430/5am then he'd have porridge about 7/730 - I found the Cow and Gate porridge absorbs a lot of milk so just put as much milk in as I could get away with!), gave him things like fish pie (with cheese sauce), cauliflower cheese, add cream to mashed potato etc. and yoghurt/ rice pudding for desserts. I think as long as your conscious of it and make sure she's getting milk from other sources she'll be fine. My DS still doesn't drink milk although I am working on that, I give him milk to drink with breakfast and supper now I've stopped bfing but he'll only have a few sips then want water.

Hello weiss

My 10-month old DS3 was the same. Just didn't seem bothered about bfeeding much once he was taking on plenty of solids. And it was a bit of cycle because my supply seemed to dry up really quickly once he wasn't so committed, so then when he did feed morning and night he wasn't getting much. I changed to formula feed before bedtime and carried on bfeeding in the morning and if he woke up during the night. But soon there just wasn't enough even for that and he started playing with my nipple and pulling and getting really frustrated until he bit me....and that was that!

He's now on ffeeding morning and night and after lunchtime sleep if he'll take ihe but like your DD sometimes he just doesn't want it (he only seems to manage 4oz at a time anyway). He's always been quite a slight baby, down on the 2nd/9th percentile so I feel like he should still be supplemented. Maybe you feel like me that it's such a fast transition being totally dependent on milk and then within a few months it's really been overtaken by solids.

It sounds as if you DD is getting plenty of variety and dairy products and if she's happy and still bfeeding well and getting enough just carry on with what you're doing :) There will still be lots of goodness in 2 feeds a day and you're doing a great job giving her what she needs.