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Please read my weaning routine and comment!

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Beingblonde · 04/04/2011 17:33

Hi all,

I have been giving my 6 month old some fruit and veg purees for a couple for weeks now. I'm now thinking of starting 3 solid meals a day but am not really sure about quantities/timings etc! I am BF but really want to stop and after weeks of trying have managed today to get DS to take 8 oz (!) from a bottle! My routine woud be as follows:

6.30 ish get up
7.00 breakfast
8.30 milk feed and nap
11.30 milk feed
12.30 lunch
4.00 milk feed
5.00 tea
6.30 milk and bed.

DS usually feeds 2-3 times during the night Sad

How does that sound? I am replacing the 4.00 BF with a FF (I hope, unless today was a fluke!) and will look to replace all daytime feeds eventually. I'll probably keep BF for the last feed. How much formula does he need at this stage? TBH I'm a bit daunted by everything all of a sudden - the responsibility of introducing him to new foods, making sure he eats enough/not too much.... probably overthinking it!

TIA!

OP posts:
RitaMorgan · 04/04/2011 18:13

At 6 months mine was similar

7am - up and breastfeed
8am - breakfast
9.30/10am - breastfeed and nap
12pm - lunch
1.30/2pm - breastfeed and nap
4pm - breastfeed
5pm - tea
7pm - breastfeed and bed
11pm - formula
3-4am - breastfeed

By 7 months I think we'd dropped the 3am feed and he was having a bottle at 11pm and a breastfeed at 6am.

If you're going totally over to formula I think you're aiming for 500-600ml a day.

polar515 · 04/04/2011 20:23

Hi My DS is 6 months, been weaning since 5 months and gradually dropping BF. I totally agree the weaning thing is all a bit daunting at first, but give it a couple more weeks and once you've started more meal type things, I'm sure you'll feel better. For me, I had just got over the worry re doing BF / feeding milk generally right and then weaning took over! My last BF was Sunday (boobies still very sore Blush). Our routine sounds very similar and is;

7.00am FF - 5-7oz
8ish 'breakfast' (tried yoghurt with fruit puree, baby cereal and porridge so far)
11.30 FF - 4oz followed by 'lunch' + offer water from beaker
14.30 FF - 7oz
17.00ish - 'tea' + water from a beaker
19.00 - FF 7oz
22.30 - FF 7oz by trying to reduce now DS on more solids

Good luck x

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