Introducing snacks instead of milk...how?

[adifferentwoman]

When dropping milk feeds, what type of snacks are best to introduce? Are things like sugar free rusks, bananas etc best?

I used a lot of mashed banana as an early weaning food. Wouldn't call weaning foods snacks though. For some babies a teaspoonful of anything is a full meal.

ratehr than drop the feed I transferred it into a lidded beaker and offered something alongside it e.g. fruit, a biscuit, etc. This meant ds got used to being offered milk from a cup instead of a bottle and he ended up being off bottles by 10 1/2 months. I put him in his highchair and let him feed it to himself rather than me feeding it to him. I started this around 9 months.

How old is your lo?

She's 7 months, so until last night was still having 5 milk feeds plus 3 'meals' a day. We dropped the 11pm feed last night cos she really didn't take much of that any more. I'm not planning on dropping another just yet - just thinking ahead!

I don't think you need to drop feeds until she's a year, just offer foods as well. My dd has just turned one and she's on 4 bf a day plus one cup of cows milk with snacks in the afternoon.

Instead of offering a bottle, you can offer milk in a cup (expressed or formula under 12 months). Then after a few months you can put something else in the cup, like water or very dilute fruit juice.