Feeding routine for 8 month old

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DS is 8 months old and I feel he's about ready to start moving into having increasing amounts of solids. He's been having milk then food for breakfast, lunch and tea plus a bedtime milk feed then usually one in the night too . When he wakes in the night he guzzles down the 5oz I offer him so he's clearly hungry which is why I'm thinking of tweaking things a bit in an attempt to get more calories into him.

Yesterday I gave him lunch first then milk about an hour later, which seemed to go well; and milk about an hour before breakfast and tea, plus his bedtime bottle(didn't stop him waking at 4am for a feed though!). I've tried doing the milk mid morning and mid afternoon thing and it's not been a success (or it wasn't when he was 6m anyway): I'm not sure his appetite's big enough to be topping up with either milk or food every 2 hours.

Basically, I'm not sure if I'm going about this the right way. What kind of feeding routine do you have for this age baby?

Thanks

Mine is just 9 months. She has breastfeeds on demand, which is usually four times a day (and countless times at night...). Breakfast is about an hour after morning BF, lunch around 12 and tea around 5. The BF seems to be in between each meal and I feed her just before bed too. She will also have a snack (solid food) in the morning or afternoon if anyone else is having one. Basically, she's a very greedy monster (and only on 2nd centile!). We're doing BLW and she's a very competent eater!

Thanks, sounds like you have a great eater! I wish I could say the same about DS. He is teething at the moment so I can understand that he doesn't want to be chewing but I also wonder if he just hasn't realised that food, as well as milk, can fill him up. He then doesn't eat much, drinks milk and wakes up in the night starving (twice last night )!

He seems to have a very sensitive gag reflex - he can manage fruit and melt in the mouth stuff but anything else just causes him to gag and quite often vomit. So we're sticking with spoon feeding for now. Perhaps I should just wait until this episode of teeting is over and try to encourage him to eat more food then, what do you think?

My 8 1/2 month dts are bf and have milk at 6.30ish, breakfast at 7.30-8.30ish, a snack at 11ish, lunch at 12.30ish, feed at 4.30, tea at 5.30, feed at 7.30, feed at 4am(usually)