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Milk/bottle feeding times help please

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Monsix · 22/04/2014 21:37

My DS is just over 6 months. I started weaning early and he is now having 3 meals a day. He's in nursery 3 days a week, so I'm trying to stick to their meal times on the days he's with me.

At the moment, I feel like we're just on a constant feeding cycle of milk & mealtimes and I'm trying to space the feeds out so he isn't too full and his milk intake doesn't drop. He rarely takes more than 150ml at a feed with some feeds being 80-90ml so I do worry a bit about him having the recommended 600ml per day.

Current schedule is approximately as follows:

7am bottle
8am breakfast
10am bottle
11.30 lunch
1pm bottle
3.30pm tea
4.30 bottle
6.30 bottle/bed

I'm thinking he's probably ready, or he will be soon to drop from 5 bottles to 4. But which one do I drop and how so I space it all out so that he has as much milk as possible?

I feel like a bit of an idiot asking, but I just can't fathom out what would work well. It's the 3.30pm tea that throws me - but it seems fairly normal for nurseries to do tea at this time so there must be some logic.

Please help!!

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Gerty1002 · 23/04/2014 07:49

Does he show hungry signs before you give him bottles or are you giving them because you think you should? I'd probably try cutting out the 10am bottle. He may then drink more at the next bottle.

It will be tricky to get it right if you have to stick to those meal times tbh, as he might then want another bottle at about the time he'd be due lunch.

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