How to know when to drop milk feeds?

[JavaGreen1998]

Hi,
My little boy will be 7 months on the 10th June.
I’ve really struggled with the starting solids and feel like I have no idea what I’m doing.

Currently he has 5 x 6oz formula feeds per day.
7:30am
11am
2pm
5pm
7:45pm

Then at 12 he has ‘solids’.

the Kendamil packet says he should be on 4 x 7oz feeds per day.

when he hits 7 months I wanted to do breakfast and dinner with him for solids.

so would this then allow me to drop a feed?

for example move to -
7:30am milk
9am solids
11am milk
1pm Solids
5pm Milk
7:45pm milk

as I say I’m really unsure but just wondered if someone can give me some advice on if that sort of schedule is normal for 7 months.

then when do they go to 3 feeds? I think I’m worrying as well as we go to Tenerife for 10 nights at 8 months old.

thanks

I never did formula feeding but I think the same principles apply. At 7 months was when I stopped feeding on demand and started a schedule of (timings very much "ish" and depending on what was happening that day)
07.00 - BF on waking
08.00 - breakfast
11.00 - BF
12.00 - lunch
15.00 - BF after nap
17.00 - dinner
19.00 - BF before bed.

At 11 months I swapped the 11.00 for a snack. At 12 months I swapped the 15.00 for cow's milk in a cup. At 13 months same swap for cow's milk for the bedtime one and then same at 14 months for the morning one.

I subbed a bottle for a meal first and went one meal at time at seven months i would have done:
breakfast 7am, bottle around morning nap (that bottle eventually becomes a roughly 100 cal snack). Lunch bottle (becomes lunch), bottle around 3 (eventually becomes a snack) dinner 5/5.30 and bedtime milk.

I found it easier just having the two snacks/bottles to eventually sub out than meals, if that makes sense! Learnt that from my first. And obviously go with the flow, if they werent interested in breakfast id just give a bottle.

I actually started with breakfast and lunch, so i could keep an eye on reactions. If you’re wanting to eat dinner out away - might be something to think about so you’re not tied down with a babies meal time.
and go with them, when you start weaning i think just share your food, sit together at the table etc. my snack time bottles went on their own as my second was just more interested in food. It wouldn’t surprise me if baba falls back bottles on holiday, or suddenly really gets a taste for food so just make sure you have enough. And dont stress the routine too much - make a mental note what time you’re up and that first meal/bottle is and you can back the day out from there. We stayed AI when my second was 7ish months and i swapped the routine so it was a bottle on waking so we werent immediately rushed to breakfast and he had solids as that “snack” bottle. He also ended up with an extra bottle than normal due to later nights. Went immediately back to routine at home. You’ll figure the holiday out, baby will adapt
you’ve got this - from someone who didn’t particularly like enjoy weaning with either child, i promise it will be ok!

I started with breakfast & tea first, porridge with half the first bottle & then bottle fed rest of milk, tea started with first weaning jar & a pudding ( we were away at our caravan so jars & tins were easier) tea was about 3.30 so later gave baby cereal or a rusk at 6.30 & a light lunch at 11.30 once he got the hang of chewing as more teeth came through with smaller bottles, always had a full bottle at bedtime around 8.00pm & before daytime naps. Ds hated using cups until he was about 18 months old so continued using bottles until then during the day even when he moved to cows milk & still had a bottle at bedtime until older as it helped him as a poor sleeper.