DD is 8 months in about 10 days. She is ebf (apart from food, obviously) and now reliably on 3 solid meals a day, mixture of puree and finger food.
I'm not sure whether this is more a weaning question rather than a feeding one, but I'm confused about whether she should be reducing bfs yet or not.
My HV said that I should make sure until at least 9 months that she was still getting 6 bfs per day, although they might significantly shorten. She tends to be feeding 5 times most days (overnight, early morning, late morning, afternoon, and before bed), this has been her pattern for the last couple of weeks. She's gaining weight, eating plenty of solids most days and happy and healthy so I don't think that she's desperate for extra bm.
Then I read some other people say that they have dropped feeds and that their LOs of similar ages are on 4 bfs and they're wondering when to drop another. Confused.com, on one idea she's still feeding too much, on the other I"m "depriving" her of a sixth feed.
I know there's a huge range of what is "normal" but I was just looking for advice and experience as to whether what my DD is doing is healthy and "normal" or whether I should be trying to help her to either drop a feed or offer her another one. OMG, this parenting thing is a nightmare - everyone has a different opinion about feeding, sleeping, settling, and everything else in between!