5mth eating too much??

[Deedee2019]

Hi,
My 2nd child, 5m DD, has always been a hungry baby.
She is 6m next wk, but already weaned to 3 meals a day. I am worried about feeding too much/ not enough milk/ just having a confidence crisis!
Typical days is

7.30am porridge or weetabix
11.30am lunch... veg/ fruit blended. Water. Yoghurt
2pm snack if needed... couple of crisp puffs or wafers to suck
4pm dinner... veg blend, fruit blend.
6.30pm 7oz bottle and bed.
9pm 7oz bottle dream feed
2.30am 7oz bottle (she wakes herself for this)

Is this too much? Not enough??
She doesn't overeat, refuses food and bottle once full.
I've weaned her very early as she was just so ready to eat, but cant see her ever sleeping through the night with an appetite like this.
Any advice is welcome. I've got mixed advice from friends.

She doesn't get any milk until the evening?

I would say more milk throughout the day. At that point it should still be the main source of good

Hi OP

Up until the age of 1 year a baby's main source of nutrition should be milk rather than solid food. This is mainly because formula milk and breastmilk are far more densely packed with the nutrients and calories that a baby needs than foods like pureed veg are. Even a baby post 6 months doing BLW and eating a varied diet is still probably only consuming small amounts of solid food.

So, I would switch things around a bit so that your DD is drinking more milks during the day -- this might also have the effect that she wakes less at night.

As you have already started solids I would try:

Milk on waking
Breakfast a little later (ideally whenever you have yours)
Milk mid-morning (before nap if she has one)
Lunch with you
Milk mid-afternoon (before nap if she has one)
Dinner with you if that works time-wise
Milk at bedtime

This would introduce back another milk feed, maybe replacing her snacks. I breastfed my 2 on demand without any kind of schedule, but this is the kind of pattern they had fallen into by the time they started solids. Milk feeds first thing were routine, and I would just offer milk during the day if they were tired, upset or asking for it.

Good luck!

Thanks, I was a bit unsure if I needed to up milk, but do use milk as a mixer in all her meals.
She just loves food bless her!
I might mix it up to include 2 more bottles in the day, between meals..

You should be offering food 30 mins to and an hour after milk.

Food before 1 is just for fun! She needs more milk !