Routine

[EmsTomot]

I know it is a tremendous pain in the rear to ask you to reel off your daily routine, but I am struggling a tad with my five month old - and it all centers around advice from health visitors!
Little one is weaning and doing very well, day starts at 8am and finishes with a bottle at 8pm, asleep by 8.30 - 8.45pm - no problems.
However, visit to the health visitor yesterday informed me that he is not having enough milk content and I am naughty giving him Heinz food! -She suggested a bottle first thing, breakfast an hour later and then lunch with milk, tea with juice and a bottle for bed - I can't see I have the hours in the day and am worried this "snacking" will make him funny later on with food - can people please run down their routines so I can compare before I start making changes to ours?
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not sure if this will help but I posted a thread about how to correspond bottles with 'meals' and there are some examples of routines in this thread.

have a look

Xmas, I have had a look at the thread, thank you - but still confused. There is one routine that fits us lovely alternating bottles with food, however - where does he nap,wash, bath, play, go out! - Every two hours doing something seems very full on for mommy and baby!
My baby does 8am - breakfast with 4oz milk, wash and nap -water at about 10/10.30am, lunch at 12pm with 3/4oz milk, play and walk, water when we get back, tea is about 4.30pm/5pm with juice and milk feed at 8pm - he has about 14oz milk a day, which I think is too low - but he is happy and thriving.
I sometimes mix his milk in with breakfast food to up the content - I am working on the demand principle, but didn't expect him to love his food so much so early!
Perhaps, I could offer him milk early morning before lunch instead of water - if he only has 2/3 oz it is a bit more than he is having - this is the hardest thing we have had to figure out to date!

It is hard isn't it? Just when you think you have things figured out, along comes something new to adapt to

Agree with you that when I looked at the alternating bottles/meals I wondered about naps, play etc - I think I would be permanently waking DS up.

Can't really give you any advice as I have not started weaning yet but I will watch this thread with interest.

IMHO, as long as he is putting on weight fine, then I probably wouldn't worry too much about what the HV said.

Hi - I think it sounds like you are doing really well with your lo. If they are healthy, eating well, sleeping and seem generally happy I wouldn't worry too much about what the HV has to say. If you had seen a different HV IME they would probably have said something completely different. If you are worried about low milk content maybe give them yoghurts and keep adding milk to his food as you are. All babies are different and what suits one doesnt suit another so take what your HV said as a suggestion only as it sounds like your baby is thriving.

this is how my day goes with my 6 month old. each thing does move by about half an hour or so to fit with baby group/outings etc.

6am up and milk
7am breakfast
8am nap for 1 hour
9am milk
11am lunch with water
12 nap for 1 hour
1pm milk
3.30pm nap for half hour
4pm tea with water
6pm milk then bed

the main thing is that at this age milk should be their main food. if he's not interested in his milk i would actually cut back on the food. could he have milk instead of the water you give him? 14oz sounds like hardly anything. i think that's what your HV is trying to get at.

Dizzy, fancy getting up that early!!!!!!!!!!!! You super mum, I couldn't wake my lo up at 6am if I used a brass band!
I have replaced morning water with 2 1/2 oz of milk - he is up to 6 1/2 today already and thats better! Aiming for about 18 oz because he does get some content in food, will now see if this throws his lunch off any.
Thank you for support and advice from everyone

oh dear i'm no super mum! dd gets up at 6!! i never ever have to wake her up, either in the morning or at nap times. i could give her a feed and she'd go back to sleep til maybe 8 but i just figure best get up and crack on really. i have a nap with her most mornings too!

Rountine's are complicated aren't they. With Ds (now 3) the advice was to start solids at 4mnths anyway, so you'd be spot on. He didn't have a routine til he went to nursery at 6mnths, then it was pretty much bottle, breakfast, bottle, nap, lunch, bottle, nap, tea, bottle, bed (bottle). But this slowly changed to sncks with drink of milk at bottle time and 1 nap after lunch. DD is now 20mnths and not weaned til 5 mnths (guidelines changed to 6mnths but low weight to HV recommended weening), not at nursery til 9mnths, similar routine. I was (am) always out and about with kids so snacks and bottles on the go (and naps in pushchair). Don't worry too much about sticking to routine. J

Found this thread interesting as my dd 21wks has really loved her food and seems to have less milk feeds than what she did or does not suck for as long. She is breastfed and dont really know what she is drinking. Am also concerned that perhaps she is not getting enough milk. Talking to HV so will feedback advice given tomorrow.