Food and Bottle Schedule - 7 Months - Does this look Ok?

amanda31H

8 am - BF

9 am - 1/3 cup cereal and 1 oz fruit each

10:15 am- 5.5 oz formula bottle

1:30 pm - 5.5 oz formula bottle

4:30 pm- 5.5 oz formula bottle

6 pm - 1/3 cup cereal and 2 oz vegetable each

7:30 pm - BF and 6 oz bottle

(I don't have much milk left so that's why I can BF and bottle feed at 7:30)

Pedi said by 9 months to have 3 meals/day.  The girls seem to be doing ok on this schedule, but it's hard for me to gauge if they need more solids? At some point can I cut out a bottle by making other bottles bigger? 

Thanks ladies!

Dec31stBride

Looks ok. Here is our schedule (DD is huge, so we went to 3 meals and cut back one bottle):

Wake - 6-8 oz bottle

9:00 - Stage 2 fruit w/ cereal

11:00 or 12 - 8 oz bottle

2 or 3 - Stage 2 veggie (sometimes w/ 1 1/2 tablespoons of cereal)

5-ish - 8 oz bottle

6 - veggie / chicken / etc stage 2

7- bedtime bottle (4-8 oz)

I am trying to figure out another bottle to drop. The nurse practitioner suggested I start the day with fruit / cereal instead of bottle, but I did it for 2 days and babies were miserable. 

LALASEPT05

We do it a little backwards I guess. We start out with the solids and do the bottle right before nap time so they have a full tummy. For us if they were cranky then we didn't have much luck with the solid food and the spoon. So we look like this...

7:30am oatmeal and a fruit

9:20am 8oz bottle

10:00 nap

12:00 veggie and fruit

1:30 nap

4:30 oatmeal and fruit

7:15 8oz bottle and bed time

 In the next few weeks I want to add in the stage 2 meats and drop some of the oatmeal or move it around a little. It seems so complicated!

 

amanda31H

LALASEPT05:

We do it a little backwards I guess. We start out with the solids and do the bottle right before nap time so they have a full tummy. For us if they were cranky then we didn't have much luck with the solid food and the spoon. So we look like this...

7:30am oatmeal and a fruit

9:20am 8oz bottle

10:00 nap

12:00 veggie and fruit

1:30 nap

4:30 oatmeal and fruit

7:15 8oz bottle and bed time

 In the next few weeks I want to add in the stage 2 meats and drop some of the oatmeal or move it around a little. It seems so complicated!

 

So your babies only get 16 oz of formula a day?  Did you cut out a bottle?  That's what I'm confused about...do you cut out a bottle, or just increase other bottles?  I thought you kept feeding the babies the same amount of formula/BM as you did prior to solids and just add solids in.

I think when I BF the girls get about 3 oz- at the most.  So they get 22 oz of formula a day and about 6 oz of BM.  That's  A LOT more than 16!!!