My first time to ask advice! I've gathered plenty of useful info from the threads so far but all in all have been dreading the whole weaning thing and am a bit confused about it all, so any tips will be very welcome!
We have just started giving solids to dd who will be 6 months next week. At the moment I'm trying out a mixture of mashed/pureed food and finger food, to see what she likes, and she just tries to grab the mash anyway so I guess we'll end up doing BLW.
My question is about how many meals I should aim for and when. I'm a bit concerned about it because she will start creche for mornings at 7 months (march) and full days at 8 months (arpril), when I go back to work. I was thinking of aiming to have her eating meals in the morning by march, and then all day in april. I'll continue to bf morning and evening. But does that fit with bf still being her main source of calories until a year? If not then how the h*ll does anyone do it? I really don't want to be expressing a lot of milk to take to the creche, as I don't want to spend money on a pump (I have a hand one but not a heavy duty electric one) and am quite lazy .
Also, since we began with food dd on saturday dd has been waking up 2-3 times at night wanting food, even though I have not cut down her milk feeds (I don't think - is it possible she's eating enough already to cut down? I thought not!). Is this normal, because of the changes or something? She's been sleeping through like an angel since 6 weeks so I'd like to avoid this becoming a long term thing - I was REALLY hoping that might be behind us!
Sorry for the long post... your thoughts very much appreciated !