When does food replace bottle feeds?

[Sunsage]

There's alot of different answers online about this so I thought I'd just try gather some more in one place!

DS is 6.5 months, started to spoon feed him at 5 months, we do abit of BLW aswell but he hasn't quite got the hang of it.

He generally takes less in his lunch time bottle since we started to wean and I'm just wondering how / when you start to replace the bottles with actual food?

Its all very confusing and I tend to majorly overthink these things 😂

I gave bottles in between meals rather than at the same time. If he's taking less in a particular bottle then offer a bit less in that one. I ended up with larger morning and evening bottles and smaller feeds during the day. Their first bottle to be dropped was the mid morning one around 9 months and they ended up with a snack and drink of water instead.

We weaned both of our dc at 6 months. D's was about 8 months before he started to reduce his milk and probably 9-10 months before he dropped full feeds. Dd was quicker, she started having shorter, more spaced out breastfeeds by 7 months and would take hardlyy any milk at all during the day by 10 months.

It starts more around 10 ish months, usually with the mid-morning or mid-afternoon feeds, which become snacks (usually with some milk of some kind as a drink). I would continue to offer milk as normal, though the times may move around a bit, until it's clear he just doesn't want it or a snack would work better.

It takes up much headspace but it's so simple.
Keep offering bottles.
When they are ready they just stop drinking them.

Thank you all very much!!

@SummerHouse you're right it does take up too much headspace..

I always did food separately to milk eg milk first thing, mid morning, mid afternoon bedtime with meals breakfast, lunch and tea. Mid morning and afternoon ones became snacks & cup of milk around 10 months.

My DD started refusing her bedtime bottle at around 8.5 months that’s when I knew it was time to drop/reduce one of the other bottles! I was also very confused by it all 😂

Take your babies lead. Both my DD’s have replaced milk with food far earlier than ‘the books’ or mum experts 😂 we weaned at 5 months & both just got eating. They knew to chew & very little gagging ever. By 7/8 months, we were on 3 full meals, snacks & milk was refused in the daytime by 8 months. Still morning, bedtime & once overnight until 9 months for mine.

I still fed on a schedule - 6/7am, 11am, 3pm & bedtime. The 3pm bottle went first. Then the 11am as I think she realised she’d get food not long afterwards!