When do they drop feeds?

[sunshine75]

Dd os almost 8 months and recently dropped the night feed. She now has 4 bf throughout the day alomg with 3 solid meals.

She bf on waking at 7, mid morning, mid afternoon and before bed.

She isn't taking much at the mid morning feed and I guess this will be next to go. I really wanted to keep it until at least 9 months.

When did your children drop this feed?

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They're all different.

Once they were on solids, which was co-incidental to me going back to work, mine used to bf morning, when I got back from work, before bed and also sometimes during the night (but this was mainly comfort).

DS self weaned (lots of biting) at 14 mo and DD weaned at 20 mo (it had really become mainly for comfort with her rather than taking much milk as I had hardly any boob discomfort when I stopped).

bf would always be the main source of food and comfort when they were ill though.

I hadn't set myself goals re bf (or come to think of it any parenting stuff!) and just kept doing what felt right until it felt right to stop, taking cues from the LOs as well.
HTH

This morning she had about 1min!!

However, I had to go out today and my dad was looking after her. She had 6oz this afternoon which is unheard of. I'll just keep on with the morning feed until she refuses it altogether

Let her drop it when she wants to! It probably won't be long, that was the first daytime one to go for us. However, they used to have it again if they were poorly or if they'd hurt themselves so it wasn't permanently gone, just most of the time!

is there a particular reason why you want to keep it until she is 9mo? is it because she has dropped the night feed as well and you are worried about her dropping too quickly?

my ds dropped both the mid morning and night feeds around this time and i think that is fairly normal, so if she isn't taking much then i'd go with what she wants rather than what you thought you would like to do IYSWIM. i'd say don't offer but wait until she asks for it and see what happens.

like kathryn says, it may not go fully just most of the time. my ds dropping it was a gradual thing - sometimes he'd have it then other times he wouldn't, and then the days he would have it got left.

Yes, she is small (2nd centile) and everyone bangs on about milk being the most important thing up to a year. I get a bit paranoid about her dropping feeds.

sunshine - i'm in a similar position so I understand how worried you can get over their milk intake. My DS was born at 9lbs (so up near 91st) and is now 9th centile. HVs have been supportive and never worried too much, and basically he has always gained weight, just at a different rate to the 'average' baby. So I try not to worry too much. He seems fine, happy, and alert, so I try very hard to just take cues from him and it seems he mostly doesn't want that feed now. But I know how worrying it is

I try to ensure he gets lots of dairy through his meals as that makes me feel a bit better - milk on cereal, cheese etc. counts towards their milk intake now. So he has cheese sauces, Philadelphia on toast, butter in most things etc.