LO eating questions if any of you EBF past 6 mos (no bottles)

June4bride2be

I have a horrible memory....have any of you SAHM's EBF past 6mos? I mean very few bottles if any at all.

I am just curious if it is possible and realistic to do this until 1 year, and at which point will he eat more solids and drink less milk.

I feel like he eats ALL day! He also started picking up an additional feeding during the night, I am trying to nip that one in the butt!

His schedule is.....

4am ish -nurse

7:30am-nurse

9am-solids

10:30/11am-nurse

12/1pm-solids

sometime between 2 and 4-nurse

5:30/6-solids

7/7:30-nurse

......and an occasional 11pm nursing

 

Is this normal eating patterns? 

xKimx

Well, C had bottles at daycare, but of BM, he never had any formula.

That sounds like a completely normal schedule to me! 

BitsyKelly

Sounds fine to me.  DD cut down to 4 nursings around 6 months, and I was really worried that she wasn't getting enough.  We just upped the solids and she's done fine.  I think if you wanted to drop a session or two he's old enough that he could handle it, especially the 4am one.

We are still EBFing and I can't believe it's been going so well.  We are at the point now where I think shes eating more than shes nursing, and I think she will definitely be ready to wean by 1.  As proud of myself as I am that I stuck with the BFing, I am so ready to be done! 

olivia_eve

We did a bottle of BM every night, but I don't know if you were thinking formula.

That sounds like a pretty normal schedule to me.

NikCole

I EBF till right around 6 months, and that is similar to what our typical schedule was.

Cutemin

Bri is still EBF, she used to take a bottle (of BM) when we were out, but refuses it now.  She just will hold off eating until we get home, sometimes 4-5 hours between eating.  Just will make up for it nursing a bit longer some other time.  Tyler was EBF until 7 months when I realized my freezer stash went bad and I didn't respond to a pump anymore.  Maybe once or twice a week we would give him a bottle of formula when either we were out or I wasn't home.  I think I went through one small canister of formula a month, alot of it wasted.  He never had issues taking a bottle.  And self weaned from nursing slowly between 11months old and his first birthday.

MelissaSue81

Skroops did. Its definitley possible. It seems like you and ryan don't have many struggles with BFing so I don't see any reason why you couldn't.

SUwife

DS BF (and I couldn't get him to take a bottle at all) about every 2-3 hours until about 9-10 months. And at about 4-5 I started cereal and then slowly fruit and vegetables 1 new one a week. He liked them, but wanted to drink. And he was having sippy cups of water and apple juice around 8 months. At about 10 months I started spacing feedings out more mostly because I was going crazy and my body couldn't take it anymore. By 11 months I had him down to 3 a day. And he gave up BF a few days before his birthday. I just started cutting out feedings and giving him whole milk, and he skipped the last 2 days when we were down to one, so then I was dried up so he couldn't have it if he wanted.