timing breastfeeds and solids?

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Sorry if this is a stupid question... it's my first time round!

I've been exclusively breast feeding my 6 month old ds but started him on solids a few weeks back. He loves it and is racing away! My question is, when should I bf around his meals? As he's been demand fed from birth, roughly every 3 hours now, he'd be constantly eating if I bf him an hour after breakfast or lunch. But will he have enough milk if I feed him just after solids? AK's schedule doesn't help as we've never really been in a strict routine anyway. I feel totally lost! Any advice welcome. Perhaps I need a stricter routine now?

Thanks!

you will find as he is enjoying solids so much there will be less demand from him to BF. This is no bad thing as he needs a varied diet to flourish now. I would still feed him 3 or 4 times a day , as he requires, and at bedtime to settle him. In between a little cooled boiled water with his solid food will keep him hydrated. He will guide you ( as I am sure he has already ) to what he needs.
I am not a fan of scheduled feeding just go with the flow, your body will produce enough for him , and he will be getting your goodness and nutrition from varied foods, win -win.
depending on how long you want to BF for this is just another step to his development. many babies will stop all but a morning and evenig BF at this time , but that is up to you and him.
Hope this helps

I feed my DD just before eating (unless she's fed less than 30 mins previous) and then just wait for her cues afterwards. I don't bother to clock-watch at all.

In my experience, there was a period when DS seemed to be eating solids or having milk most of the time he was awake, while he seemed to transition, but now he's just not as interested in milk.

At 10 months, he's now just having milk after breakfast, lunch and before bed and his other two feeds are just water and a snack.

I kept meals and bf separate as that's what worked for us. DS has since chosen which bf's to drop.
So I'd bf on waking, breakfast at 8, bf mid morning, lunch around 12, bf mid afternoon, tea around 4:30, bf around 6 then another to settle at night.
He's 6.5 months and taken to solids in a big way. He's now dropped the 10:30 bf and the 2:30 bf is rapidly following. He has water with his meals and has yoghurts and cheese etc. to keep up his dairy.
The bf's he's dropping have now become snack time. Made sense to me to do it that way as it follows my other dc's timetable with nursery/school etc.