Adding snacks and moving milk feed - Does this sound sensible?

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I used to be a professional person, able to make decisions.....then i had a baby! I remember feeling this same indecision and uncertainty when we had not yet got into a good feeding rountine, now were weaning and its happened again!

My DD is 7.5 months old. Weaning is going well though over the last couple of weeks she is waking up far earlier (2 hours or so) that she used to. She happily and enthusiastically takes 3 solid meals a day, but am having a rethink of her day as i dont think she is getting enough milk/ or could do with more food but cant decide what to do for the best.

Here's her day....
6-7 am - bottle (5-7 floz ish)
9am - breakfast of porridge/cereal, toast, offer her milk
12 - lunch - meat/veg, yog. water, offer milk
4 - tea, - 9as lunch though she often takes more milk
6- newly added - supper - cereal/ somethign mashed inmilk
7.15 - bottle before bed - 6/7 fl oz

Thinkiong about offering her snakcs of some kind mid morning and mid afternoon
almost decided to not offer milk after lunch ( cos she is never really interested anyway) and offer mid afternoon instead.

What do you think?

I always kept food/milk seperate so ds wouldnt cut back too much while still having room for solids e.g. up to 9 months he had 4 milk feeds per day:

7am - milk
8am - breakfast
11am - milk
12pm - lunch
3pm - milk
5pm - dinner
7.15pm - milk

He also still had a night feed up till 8 months so at your lo's age had 5 milk feeds.

I didnt offer snacks until ds started dropping the mid-morning/afternoon milk feeds and then the snacks replaced them.

Seona, Thanks for your reply.

Seperating solids and milk does seem very logical ...so why didnt i think of it?!! But would make for lots of feeds and with a nap between each, leaves hardly any playing/activity/being awake but not eating time...doesn't it?

I always think of mealtimes being an activity in itself - as your lo gets older they will spend less times having milk/being asleep, etc and will have more proper activity time.

Its whatever suits you and your lo though - you can always try something out and then move back if it doesnt work the way you want it to.