10 month old eating schedule? Dropping a daytime feed but not at night

[Melissac88]

My 10 month old has recently dropped a feed during the day as her intake take of solids has been increasing - so she's down to 4 bottles in 24 hours instead of 5 but it's a daytime one she's dropped. She's still waking at night for one. I say she's waking for a feed, but she goes from having half of the bottle to all, it really varies every night. I do partly think it's habit waking. We are going to start decreasing amount by ounce at night as I've read that can wean them off it.

I'd felt a bit lost with the whole weaning process this time, when to give her what and when to offer bottles etc. probably overthinking the whole thing but I think it has lead to slower progress with getting her on more solids. Could anyone share any meal schedules and routines they followed at this age?

I did breakfast usually including yoghurt with fruit and a carb or some sort such as finger of bread and butter, mid morning milk before nap, lunch, milk around 3pm, dinner and then milk before bed around 6/ 6.30 then night-time milk around 12noon (so we all get some sleep).

4 bottles for a 10 month old sounds right to me. At this age they have three meals a day (maybe still small ones) and the milk. Due to levels of activity her intake will flutuate a little bit during the day as you have been experiencing. 10 months is too young to be able to drop a night feed so you'll have that for a while yet. I don't think the bottle at night is a 'habit' but because your her mum and she needs you and having a bottle is a way to get that contact with you at night as well as a drink. She will drop it when she is ready. If you want to wean her off the milk at night then reducing it by ounce is a good way to do it.

At 10 months we did a bottle upon waking and a bottle at bedtime. In the day it was 3 meals and 2 snacks. Bottles in place of the snacks would still be fine though if that’s what baby wants but you do want to think about transitioning away from them soon as they should ideally be off bottles completely at 12 months old or at most just having the bedtime one. Give something filling to eat before bedtime, porridge and banana is good, then I would offer only water and cuddles in the night. Or taper down by an ounce if you think there is genuine hunger rather than it being a habitual wake and seeking comfort. You know best! Formula from a bottle is just really bad for teeth so you’re doing the right thing to try to drop the night feed.

Yes, she also fluctuated between one and two feeds for quite a while but naturally stopped the second one herself, I didn't really do anything to cut it out so I do wonder if she will eventually do the same with this one. She wakes between 1 and 2am for the one now and the only problem I have is that she will then never make it past 5am til she wakes agin and most of the time is not tired enough to go/be put back to sleep. If she wakes a little later for the feed, past about 2.30, she will normally sleep again til closer to 6 or later which is a lot more manageable! She is well in bed by 6.30 every night tho, sometimes even 6.15 which I've just followed her lead on and is just overtired if I try to keep her up so I guess we can't have both an early bedtime and a lie in!