When to give milk with BLW?

[Lobyd]

My DD is 28 weeks and we started BLW at 24 weeks after she grabbed a banana and ate it..followed by 3 rice cakes!

Just before this I also introduced formula as I'm going back to work and it seemed like the easiest solution. I mention this as I'm not sure what her intake would be if food wasn't in the equation, IYSWIM.

She was showing a real interest but that's kind of dropped off and she mainly plays with her food, although I'm still doing breakfast and lunch, which is all I've offered so far.

My question is, I guess, how often should I be feeding her milk? She's not really a baby who cries for hunger so I've always BFd and FF her every 3ish hours in the day( and sometimes night!), which seems to suit her. Should I be spacing this out more? I haven't so far as I'm not convinced she's getting much into her. Or should I offer her food more times during the day?

Sorry if this has been answered before.

Apparently 'food is fun until they're one'

I think it's normal for interest in food to wax and wane initially and the advice is to give milk first and then offer food.

I used to bf and then offer food at around mealtimes, DS was about 9 months before he got properly interested.

HTH

I don't know the 'right' answer... but happy to tell you what we do.
My dd (now almost 8months) has been blw from 6months, sadly stopped bf-ing before that ( but that's a different thread) so we are well established on ff now, and this is pretty much how we've been doing it (give or take 20mins depending on naps)
So...
Milk @ 7am and Breakfast @8 am
Milk @ 11am and Lunch @ 12noon
Milk @ 3pm and Dinner at 5pm.
Milk @ 6.30 and bed at 7pm.

DD has never cried for hunger (except when really little) so we started out with 3hr gaps (when bfing and the switch to ff), then stretched her a bit longer and it has worked fine.

I would agree that some days food is more interesting to dd than others, and on those days she drinks more milk. As she has got older she seems more into the food. I think you just have to trust them. Hard, isn't it

Thanks for that advice -- Ready, that's really helpful, sounds like what we will be aiming for over the next couple of months!

Looking forward to getting DD upto 3 meals a day but I'm not sure having 2 dinners will do me much good, oh well.

Haha, I know what you mean Lobyd. I have my breakfast and lunch with dd, but for her 5pm dinner, I usually only snack on fruit or veg, that way I am getting my 5 a day and not just piling on the lbs.
We did start out slowly, we didn't do 3 meals right off. ENJOY!