Can anyone give me any tips?

[jojoisamum]

DS is 6.5 months old. Over the couple of weeks he's started to refuse is 7 am feed and then takes very little at 11 am. He's on formula and we are BLW. He may take more at 3 pm but may be only 5-6 oz sometimes more, sometimes less. He will then pack his face from 5.45 until 7 pm and then take full feeds at 10 ish and 2 ish.

I am not worried about it (yet) as he is happy in himself and seems to be taking to BLW very well (well so his nappies tell me!)

I'd like to try and tip the balance so that he feeds during the day and may be move towards dropping the night feeds. Not that it bothers me feeding him in the night but it would be nice to move forward a bit but this will be at his own pace.

Any tips to cut back at 10 and 2 am to see if he'll eat more during the day?

How much is he drinking during the day cause remember he does need to take a certain amount of milk. Is he have food as well at 7am?

He is getting his pint that is required. He is also offered food 3 x a day but is still little to understand about it filling his tummy. Bits are going down but it is more of a game.

He's getting

milk 7 am

food 9 am

milk 11 am

food 1 pm

milk 3 pm

food 5 pm

milk 5.45, 6.15 and 7 pm (too long a story as to why but it gets him to sleep!)

dream feeds at 10 and 2.

AM I doing this wrong?

You are not doing anything wrong at all. There is no right or wrong way to do this, it just takes time to find what your baby wants and to bring that in line with what you think he should have iyswim.

Depending on what sort of solid food he is having, he's probably picking up small amounts of calcium and protein etc from that too remember.

If you're dream feeding, does this mean he isn't actually waking and asking for feed? I spoke to my mw about weaning off of night time feeds and she suggested I water the formula down a bit. I'm not suggesting you do this as alot of people don't agree with it, but ds stopped waking after 4 nights, but I didn't dream feed either, he was waking himself for this.

Could you try changing feeding times? Can he have 'proper' food when he gets up and milk after?

Dream feed is may be a bit of a wrong word. He'll wake around 10 pm after going to bed at 6.30 so I just feed him. My husband will feed him again around 2 am when he gets in from work. We don't generally hear a peep from him until around 6 am

Might try and move things around a bit.

Solids so far consist of veg, fruit, toast with philly, chicken, turkey, shredded wheat. Basically just bits and pieces from the fridge.

So he'll be getting bits from veg and cheese spreads too.
Yoghurts are handy if you feel he's not getting as much milk as you'd like him too.
I did weaning completely different and didn't offer any finger foods until about 9 months, but I found very quickly that ds just didn't want milk, at 7 months he was having 14oz a day, at 9 months just the 7 and now at 17m, lucky if he has a mouthful of the milk he's offered at bedtime. I really hate this and would love him to drink more, but he just doesn't want it, so he has yoghurts and lots of grated cheese. I also mix melted cheese into anything I can. Maybe try cooking some broccoli or cauliflower in a cheese sause?
Or pasta in cheese?