Sleep & feed times

[Grebo75]

Help please! new to the community and got a 6 month old whose sleep and feed routines seem to be changing on a daily basis particularly since we started weaning...
Quite a placid baby so far (our first btw) we quickly got a routine established with advice from HV on feeding times for milk, 5 a day at 4 hour intervals with final night feed about 10:30ish at night. Now though with weaning as well sometimes we are having to wake him for feeds which then become a fight as he gets tired and upset and doesn't want to feed. I know some will say the baby should set the routine but neither myself nor Husband can really cope with going back to feeds in the middle of the night, not when my return to work is imminent :(
Don't know how best to set a routine for feeds, still feeding bottle milk as well as pureed food/jars and porridge or mashed rusks.

Anyway, first post in hopes of some magical advice...

No idea if this is any help, but here is our routine, our DS is almost 6 months:

(all times are give or take 15 mins or so!)
7.15 bottle
7.45 breakfast
9.00-9.45 sleep
10.30 bottle
11.30 lunch
12.00-2.15 sleep
2.30 bottle
5.00 tea
6.15 bottle
11.00pm bottle

I haven't fed him in the night if he wakes (which he tends to!) since he was 13 weeks. He hasn't really woken for food, just because he's uncomfy (he has to wear boots and a bar to bed to correct his talipes)

hth

I found this really tricky as all my friends did different things, so eventually I went with my baby. I never woke him to feed him and he soon dropped into his own routine. He is now 7 months. At 6 months he had been on purees for a wee while but not long. I was finding it really difficult to fit in all the bottles and meals. Here is what we did:

6.00am 240mls formula (usually wakes about 5.30)
7ish down for a nap!
8.30/9 Breakfast
10.30/11 240mls formula
Nap
12.30 Lunch
2.30/3 240mls formula
Nap
5.00 Tea
6.30 Begin bath time routine
7ish 240mls formula

He began to struggle with all the bottles, so at 7 months we stopped the mid morning one, as he now drinks water from a beaker with meals, and give him some finger food instead. All these timings are approximate and I found that even on the days when he would have an unusually long nap he seemd to catch up with himself. I still stress that he is eating more/less than my friends, not getting enough fluids blah blah blah but he is growing and happy so I will just have to stop worrying!

I struggled initially with naps and food when weaning but it seems to have settled into more of a reliable routine at 6.5 months. I find that keeping him up a bit later before putting him down for his first nap reduces the length of his first nap and increases the afternoon one. Ithink they need around 20 ounces of milk even when weaned but i can't tell how much DS is having because he's BF. It now goes something like this:

6.30ish - awake
7am - milk
8am - breakfast
9/ 9.30am - nap for 30-45 mins
10.30/11am - milk
11.45/ 12.30 - lunch
12.30/1pm - nap for 1 and a half to 2 hours
2.30ish - milk
5ish - nap for 20 to 30 mins
5.30pm - dinner
6.30 - bath
7/7.30pm - milk and bed

Thanks all, tried a different routine yesterday. Had jar of food at 5.30pm, guzzled whole 9oz milk at 8.30 pm and slept through until about 4am. Not bad going, think we will work around the advice given here rather than trying to keep cramming food and milk in when he doesn't want it and keep having to wake him up to feed!

That's a good plan. I was trying to cram food into my son because I was determined that he wouldn't wake up hungry in the middle of the night, but to be honest, once I started follow him more he actually ate larger amounts, just less frequently. Good luck!