Is she getting enough milk?

[GoodbyeToAllThat]

My DD is 8m and until a couple of weeks ago was EBF. As she's going to nursery in 3m I wanted to replace all daytime feeds with FF so we were all prepared for when I go back to work.

Currently, her intake looks like this:

On waking (c6am) BF
7am porridge made with formula
11.30 lunch
2.30ish FF. She won't drink from a bottle but sips from a doidy cup.
5pm dinner
6.30 ish bedtime BF
During night - 1 or 2 BF

Before I started weaning, I fed on demand but now she doesn't seem that interested in feeding in the day and only takes about half a carton of formula during the afternoon feed. She's taken well to solids but is mostly baby-led so difficult to know what she's eating.

I know that at this age milk is more important than solids and I'm worried sick that I've messed things up and she's not getting enough milk. I've also tried offering a BF or FF c11am but she's just not interested.

Everything just felt so much easier when she was EBF on demand and now I feel like I've got it all wrong. I also think she might be waking more often in the night because of the change.

Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance for any advice/reassurance.

Eagerly following this....in exactly the same situation apart from I'm carrying on bfing as well as solids. At my wits end with feeding 5/6 times per night as well as three meals and 3/4 bfs during the day.

When my son went to nursery at 9mo, he wouldn't take a bottle and hated formula. He ate his three normal meals with some yoghurts as back up when other kids had bottles. He drunk water from a cup but no milk ever. He didn't have many teeth until he was well over one, so I have no idea what volume of solids he ate (we did mix of baby-led and some whizzed up stuff) but clearly he got enough.

He survived and bf at night until 16mo.

From just bf at night/evening/very early morning, he was able to get enough to grow and thrive. He never went hungry.

So in my experience, it's possible not to any milk in the day as long as some food is going in and you still offer feeds at morning/night. (As my DS never slept, that was easy enough.)

Hope that helps.

Oh just to add that my method was very night waking intensive but frankly DS fed every couple of hours beforehand and he continued to do so. Which was hard for me but he got plenty of food.....

Thanks Rubyroo that's made me feel more positive. As for night wakings, DD is a terrible sleeper and wakes around 5 times a night - but only wants feeding for a couple of those.

Monkeyblonde, I know all babies are different but if it's any consolation until a month ago DD was also feeding about 6 times a night. She still wakes often but we can mostly just sssssh/pat her back to sleep - means DH can help a bit rather than me having to go in and feed each time.

Happy Easter! [busmile]

Thanks Goodbye for the reassurance. Did anything change before your LO started sleeping a bit more, or do you think that it is just an age thing?

I think it's just a random age thing tbh - I'm too knackered to do any kind of sleep training! Just to clarify, she does still wake frequently but the difference is she's much faster to settle and sometimes even settles herself. She's never slept more than 5 hours and an average is about 3 hours but even that's an improvement on where we were so I'm counting my blessings...

Sorry I can't offer anything more helpful.