solids and milk at lunchtime

[pawre]

Hiya,

New here.

My LO is 8 months. During lunch at 11:30am, she has solids (protein) then I BF before nap time. I haven't dropped the lunch BF yet. Is this a problem since solids and milk affect iron absorption?? what are you doing for solids and milk at lunch? thanks for any advice.

dd is 8 months too. i do lunch 11.30, nap afterwards til about 12.30. then milk. i started doing this ages ago to break the feed to sleep cycle. lately i've been leaving the milk til 2pm ish and giving it with a snack. so it's like milk and a biscuit type of thing..except not a biscuit! so slowly but surely i'm getting out of milk, food, milk, food, all day long, and moving to 3 meals plus snacks by 10 months i think.

i think the thing is not to give milk with protein, something i saw on kellymom if i recall.

Not even considered this! My dd is nearly 1 and still has a bf straight after her lunch. Not seen as a problem by any of the NHS people we've seen (and they are an unusually good set around here).

I think the iron thing & milk refers to cows milk. Human milk contains iron that is easily abosorbed as it also contains the nutrients to allow for this.

Also with BFing you dont need to think about "dropping" feeds really - just carry on feeding on demand & then offer foods when you eat. Your LO will gradually start increasing their solids intake on their own.

Thanks everyone! Feel like I got the answer I wanted.

Dizzybint, I saw your LO's routine somewhere here. I think you're on 3 feeds a day?? We're on 4. You dropped your before lunch milk feed already I think.

yes. i was trying to stop the feeding to sleep cycle so i started giving milk after each nap, when she was having 3 naps a day, as well as on waking and just before bed. now she's dropping a nap (can;t decide which, changes every day) so i'm toying with giving the after lunch nap milk later on, like at 2pm. so effectively we're dropping a nap and dropping a milk feed. does that make any sense at all?!