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Bottle and meal help

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TiredMummy18 · 27/04/2018 11:31

My son is 6.5 months old and started being weaned at 4.5/5months.

He’s a chunky baby and loves his food but after reading some of the threads on here I feel like I might be doing his routine wrong. It seems like a lot of people don’t give food and milk at the same time, but I’ve always been told this is the way to do it.

His routine is:

5:30am milk (8oz)
8:30am porridge and milk (4oz)
11:30am milk (8oz)
2:30pm lunch and milk (4oz)
5:30pm dinner and milk (4oz)

He then goes to bed around 6:30pm and will wake up around 2/3am for a bottle (approx 6/7oz). He used to sleep all through the night but has recently started waking through the night again for a feed.

Does this seem ok?

OP posts:
TiredMummy18 · 27/04/2018 11:32

Forgot to say, I would like to keep him up later so he has a bottle before bed but he can never make it past half 6 and he’s shattered

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AssassinatedBeauty · 28/04/2018 09:16

I did milk about an hour or so before food at 6 months, but I didn't start weaning until then and only started with one meal a day. So your baby is having a lot of solid food compared to that.

Does he have his meals then drink a bottle afterwards, or the other way around? The total amount of formula he's having seems a little on the low side for 6 months, but I'm not an expert as I haven't formula fed.

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