6month old solid/milk/sleep schedule - help please!

[booboobunny]

i am having trouble working out an appropriate daily schedule for my 6 month old. this is my 3rd baby and i find that i am constrained in what i can do by the inflexibility of my other nippers' timetables and i'm getting in a bit of a muddle tbh.

for info, i started weaning at 5 months, all went well till she caught chicken pox, which set her back a bit. however, she is now 6 months old and takes a small amount of solids 3 times a day. i now need to start reducing the volume of milk she drinks (she has previously been on 6-7oz 7-11-3-7-11 - and through the night sometimes). the issue comes with the school/playschool run and how to fit her requirements in around it.

she is generally up by 6am (which is great!). on weekdays we have to be out the door by 8.40am, most days we go to school, then playschool, and arrive back home about 9.30, by swhich time she's generally asleep in the buggy. i have playschool pick up at 12.30 (so in the buggy at 12.20) once again, by the time i get home (12.40ish) she's usually dropped off). afternoons are less difficult. schooll pick up at 3.15 but she'll stay awake for this generally.

does a schedule jump out from this, because i confess i can't find it myself. breakfast and lunch seem really close together and where do milk feeds fit in?

any suggestions gratefully recieved!!

am watching with interest as my 3rd baby is now 6 months and I am wondering how to structure milk/solids in line with resposabilities to my other children......

I think maybe concentrate on introducing one meal at a time, and then it wont seem so daunting. My DD started with tea, and this seems the easiest one for you to fit in. Once this is established, try introducing lunch at about 11.30, and this will naturally lead to the 11 o'clock feed going. Once these are well established, she may well be ready for breakfast, and may be happy to self-feed on some toast, or you may have time to give her some cereal with your other two.
Basically, take it one step (meal) at a time, and if something doesn't work, tweak the routine until you are all happy.
Hope this helps :)

I had the same problem with DD2, trying to fit her needs around her big sister. Now 8 months, her schedule is this:
Milk at 6.30 when she wakes up. We go to nursery and drop DD1 off. Back home, nap from 9 to 10 circa. Breakfast (weetabix or fruit). Lunch at 12.30ish (veg and meat/fish). Nap from 1.30 to 2.30. Milk at 3. Dinner at 5.30-6 (pasta with veg). Milk at 6.30-7, then bed.
It works for us - could you somehow apply it to your needs?

I think my DS's routine would fit in perfectly with your day. He's a bit older (7.5 months) but this is what it looked like a few weeks ago. (I've now dropped the 3pm milk feed)

6am - awake
6.30/7 - milk (bit less than usual)
8.15 - breakfast
9am - nap (in buggy)
10.30am - milk (bit less than usual)
11.50ish - lunch
12.30 - nap
3pm - milk (bit less than usual)
5pm - dinner
7pm - milk and bed (or whenever bedtime is for you)

...and drop the dreamfeed?

Thanks all. I have just checked back in with this thread as I'd pretty much given up on it bearing fruit. The schedules given are really helpful and im sure I could adapt them to fit what we are able to do. Thanks so much

Just trying myself with a 6.5 month old, and today we seem to have fallen into;
7am - 7.30am awake, milk feed
8 -8.30a, breakfast
(9.15 Playschool drop off, whizz home!)
10am nap in cot
11-11.30am lunch
(12.15 playschool pick up)
1pm milk feed
2pm sleep - usually out, park etc so in buggy
4pm tea
5pm small milk snack
6pm start bedtime routine, milk feed and bed by 7pm

Not sure if thats any help. I have found it hard to try and consider a routine what with having DS as well. I thought she might take a milk feed at 11 and then lunch later, but she wasn't interested, she snuck in a little sneaky feed at 5pm instead which suits me fine. At the moment she also wakes about 11.30pm for a feed, but I'm denying boob after that until the morning! Will hope to drop that one in a few weeks. Ha ha.

Hi there. I have a six month old - my first - so have a serious question. Why are you trying to drop the milk volume yet? I thought that it was meant to stay the same for quite a while yet and just drop back as the volume of food increases a lot.