BLW question: When do you switch to bf after meals rather then before?

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DD is 8 mths and started blw at 6mths and its been going well but she's not really got an appetite for food yet because as they suggest you should offer the food after bf.

She is now starting to get frustrated with the food, I ended up spoon feeding her a bowl of lamb stew yesterday and she finished the bowl.

She has also increased the amount of feeds she normally has and has over 8 feeds a day(before it was 7-8 times) and is waking a few times a night to feed which is leaving me exhausted.

I was thinking if I should now feed her food first then bf after each feed - would this help?

Thank you

how long do you leave after the bf before you offer the solids? I used to leave an hour or so after milk before giving food so they still took their milk ok but also had a bit of room for the food too. I never gave food straight after milk as their tummy wasnt big enough to take both at the one time.

Repeat;
Food is fun until they're one
Food is fun until they're one
Food is fun until they're one
Until you stop worrying.
I have never spoon fed my BLW son and did my best to let him get on with it. She will eat when she is ready. She is possibly having a growth spurt/ teething/ being a baby which could wake her up.
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My LO will strip a chicken drum stick to the bone in 10min. It took a long time to get here, he's 17month now. My only problem now is that he finishes his food before I do.
Good luck

I agree with Scaredycat3000 :)

Kellymom recommends offering milk first until at least 12 months, unless you're wanting to wean from the breast early.

I don't think it necessarily makes a big difference - I bf my 9 m.o. immediately before meals (no more than 15 mins before I give him solids) and he still eats like a horse. But he always has done - I think that's just what he's like. :)

thank you - only just managed to read this now.

here is my usual routine what i have been doing for a week so i will go back to milk only and offer food after:

i want to bf until 12 mths.

7.30am bf
9am cereal/fruit/maybe toast/water
10am bf - morning sleep
12 bf then lunch but since last week i've been giving food first and then bf so i'll go back to bf first.
2pm bf and afternoon sleep
3ish - snack/water
3.30ish bf
5-6pm dinner/water
6-7pm bf bed
11.30pm bf
3.30am bf

sometimes she has one less bf and others two more than normal, i feed on demand and never count the hours but i always clock them up in my mind during the last feed and they always seem to be about these times.

i like the mantra "Food is fun until they're one"... last week i have started to get more serious about it and a bit stressed which i promised myself i would not do and offering food into her mouth to make her eat more. i fed her a whole bowl of lamb stew the other day, i did not mash the anything up, she ate big chunks of meat and veg but i fed her which i think is the correct blw method. but for me i wam doing it to avoid purees and allow her to see food as it should be. i am not too bothered about her feeding herself weetabix or soups, she holds everything else and feeds herself.

the other reason i start trying to get more in her is because dh thinks its hunger that has started to make her wake more and want more breast during the night, he thinks its food she needs and not milk.

sorry should read "not the correct blw method"

oh good - i need to stop thinking about how i did it with dd 1 and 2 and stop comparing myself to my friends who only ff 2-3 times a day compared to my 8... they think i'm mad :)