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Dropping BF while weaning?

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Zoogeek · 08/08/2014 19:11

DD2 is just over 7 months and a big baby with a huge appetite, she quickly upped her food when we started at 6 months to 3 meals a day and loves eating her solids. She has 1 bottle of formula at bedtime and the rest is breast milk. I BF DD1 to 4.5 months so this is unknown territory for me to be feeding DD2 through weaning and I'm not sure what to do, she has her morning feed at 7amish fine and I'd normally feed her at 10 and 2 but she's fighting these feeds. I don't think she needs them, she has
BF at 7am, breakfast of porridge, yog or wheatabix at 8, lunch at 11.30-12 of veg, fish or meat and carbs with pud of yog or fruit and dinner of veg at 4.30-5 then a bottle of formula at 7pm. I try to BF her during the day but she's not interested, yet all the NHS weaning advice says they should be having more milk than she is at the mo. She has vitamins every day, is this something I should worry about or not? Would really appreciate hearing from others in a similar position?

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Zoogeek · 09/08/2014 10:50

Anyone?

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 09/08/2014 13:48

Could you bf roughly an hour before the solids?

Zoogeek · 09/08/2014 19:16

Yeah I try to offer her bf before her solids to make sure she's hungry but she just doesn't seem interested, lots of distraction during the day and often now too impatient to wait for milk let down, pops off and starts pushing herself off!

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 09/08/2014 20:54

3 meals is a fair bit at that age, could you swap one for a bf? If she's impatient, could you just offer again later or try breast compressions?

Zoogeek · 09/08/2014 21:38

Yes she went up to 3 meals quickly, I'm just being led by her appetite on that one, milk feeds weren't satisfying her but solids seem to, she's certainly happier after her meals :)

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