How many feeds a day for a bf 6mth old?

[Caz10]

Have been stressing a bit over the past week or so with ebf dd not feeding as much as I felt she should...then realised that I haven't really changed my expectations over the past few months...presumably at some point feeding every 1.5-2hrs stops becoming the norm! I can't remember this bit with dd1, she seemed to feed a lot more. We are doing blw but she seems to take on a fair amount already, eg full slice of toast and a yoghurt quite happily at a meal time, so I guess that will have an effect. Also she is quite difficult to settle at night so will feed a lot between say 7-9. But at the moment she barely seems to feed in the day! I know they're all different but is there a rough average for this age?

I don't know about rough average, but hopefully if enough people reply you can get an idea. When DD was 6 months she fed 3 hourly and we fitted breakfast lunch and dinner in between. This went to first thing in the morning, mid morning, mid afternoon and bedtime by the time she was 11 months. Of course, at any time this could include night feeds. Now at 13 months when I'm working she feeds morning and night and goes without in the day and when we're together, I replace the snacks she would normally have at the cm with a bf. It seems to work.

DD is nearly 7 months and BF. She feeds before breakfast, mid morning, after lunch, mid afternoon, before bed and once at night.

She's now on three meals a day too and appears pretty disinterested in the post lunch feed, so I think that'll be dropped quite soon.

Hi - again just another example for comparison but already looks like everyone different! DS 6 months old too and feeds about 3 hourly during the day (5 or 6 feeds in total spread from 6am to 7pm). No night feeds at the moment but I think he's just waiting for me to get used to it before he starts them up again!!!

DS started solids at 5 months so was well into 3 meals a day by 6 months and had dropped one day feed and one night feed I think - so had gone from about 8 feeds to about 6 (5 in the day 1 at night).

My 8mo was on 2-3 hourly feeds until the last couple of weeks. She just loves her milk!

My 8 mo DD feeds as often as she likes, I can't be more specific, some days its every hour or more, some days its 2-3 times in a day. It just depends on how interesting other things are.

Thanks so much for your responses! I think we are looking most like fiolondons 8mth schedule...it is the mid morning feed I think I feel we are "missing". She is restless from about 5am so I pop her on to try to keep from waking dd1- not a feed as such but I reckon she must guzzle a fair bit. Then breakfast, then she'll sleep about 40 mins to an hr when I drop dd1 at school. When she wakes then around ten ish she'd always take a big feed- now nothing! It just seems like such a long time since 6amish! And I want to keep milk the priority so dOnt really want to offer solids at lunch when she's had no milk!
I had forgotten the thing of counting feeds over a 24hr period, if I do that she still feeds loads! Just not interested for big chunks of the day, but I guess her overall intake is what's important?

I would say so. Don't worry about offering lunch without a bf first. If she wants a bf she'll let you know. I think lunch is one of the first meals they take seriously.

If your BLW then they do say offer milk before solids. So maybe offer her some milk just before lunch and see if she'll take it then rather then just after her nap.

They do seem to vary huagly as to how often they feed.