should I be moving dd along

[Janmad]

DD is 6mths and having 4 bottles a day. she gets up around 7am and has 8oz bottle, around 11am its fruit then 12.30 bottle (which she has 4-5oz) dinner is 3pm and a 4-5oz bottle at 4pm then its just juice until 8pm, then bed. But I am finding that she is alseep before her last bottle, so she falls asleep on the sofa and I wake her up for her last bottle. I know this is no good but if I bring the bedtime bottle forward she may not drink it......and she sleeps all night so there is no other feeds until the morning! What do you think?

i would move everything forward. she really needs to be taking around a pint of milk a day as it's still the main source of nutrition even though you are giving other food

she has a 5.5 hr gap between morning bottle and lunchtime which is quite long

i would do something like

7am bottle
11am bottle
3pm bottle
7pm bottle

fit her food in around the bottle... perhaps lunch at 12.30/1 and then dinner at 5ish?

she opbviously is getting tired before 8 o'clock so it may be time to move her bedtime forward a bit!

My DS is 7 months (just) and we do (usually)

8oz bottle at 5.30/6.00am (really can't wait until this stops ) then back to sleep until 7.30am
Breakfast at 8.00am
Nap 9.00am for hour and a half
4oz bottle at 10.30/11.00am depending on what time he wakes from nap
Lunch at 12.30/1.00pm
Nap at 1.30pm for hour and a half
4oz bottle at 3.00pm
Tea at 5.30pm
8oz bottle at 6.30pm then bed

I find that it doesn't matter that there is only a small gap between teatime and final bottle, he always takes it all and doesn't fall asleep on it either.

HTH

I think my problem has been fitting her milk around her food and it should be the otherway around.
It feels as though there is not enough hours in the day to fit all this eating and drinking in!
DD drinks roughly 24oz of milk give or take an oz. I just need to bring this last bottle forward enough to catch her before she falls asleep but not make her sick. I dont feel like I am doing the right thing allowing her to sleep on the sofa or getting a routine in place

janmad i was exactly the same when i started weaning ds! he always seemed to be asleep or having milk!
it does get easier though!