Milk and weaning

[testy1997]

I've just started weaning my baby at 6 months. She'd usually take 9oz 5 times a day and this has reduced dramatically. Is this usual? She shaving two small meals a day.. if that! Everything I've read is that milk shouldn't reduce? I'm worried and then worried I've created a feeding aversion as I'm so stressed!

9oz 5 times a day? Hungry baby indeed!

It’s totally normal tho. At 6 months they still have such a small tummy so if they’re substituting two little meals for a bottle or two then that’s no problem. How many bottles has she actually dropped? Remember you can always contact your health visitor too if you wanted to double check everything’s okay.

My DD is 11 months and has 4 6oz bottles a day. When she was 6 months, she wasn’t dropping bottles purely because we were giving her porridge once a day here and there. If I was giving her two consistent small meals a day then she defo would have dropped some bottles. All sounds normal to me

She's having less of every feed so I think I could drop a bottle and move to four hourly feeds rather than three.. I just don't want to overfeed and create a problem but also mindful milk needs to be the main source of nutrition!

Yeah ofc, if she’s typically having 5 feeds but less of every bottle then you can defo drop down to giving her 4. Honestly don’t worry. The whole point of weaning is to eventually get them off of milk and onto food as they get bigger so you’re doing the right thing. As long as she’s still taking bottles and not wanting to stop drinking it completely then it’s all good

Like most things baby related it's horses for courses! DD was only having 4 7oz bottles a day when we started to wean so took a little while to drop some. Each baby will go at their own pace.

I found this useful (from sr_nutrition on Instagram who posts lots of helpful stuff!)