Can you please share your feeding schedule for your LO around 8-9 months?
DS has started refusing his bedtime bottle and as I started googling it, many of the articles talk about how many babies start to give up this feed... the problem is he's waking up much more at night and I *think* it's due to hunger so I don't think he's ready to give it up. He hasn't been taking overnight feeds since about 4 months (we EFF)
As I was reading, it seems many babies have significantly scaled down the # of feeds during the day by 8-9 months but we are still feeding approx every 3 hours. For a total of 5 feeds (3 bottles & 2 feeds with Stage 2 foods)..... should we be weaning him off a feed? I'm confused about the next step when it comes to food/feeding?!
Re: Feeding schedule for 8 month old?
This is our schedule
Wake up and nurse around 545
Solids and nurse at 830...nap
10 short nursing session
noon solids and nurse... nap
3 short nursing session...possibly snack of cherrios or a cracker
5 solids and finger foods
645 nurse and bottle (she almost always falls asleep during this)
Bed for the night and do it all again the next day!
Here's our schedule!
6am-Wake up/Nurse
7am-Oatmeal & Fruit Puree
8-10am-Nap
10-Nurse
12-Veggie Puree
1-Nurse & falls asleep for nap until 3 or so.
3:30-Nurse & Puffs for a snack
5:30-Fruit or Veggis Puree with our dinner
7:00 or 7:30-Nurse for bed
Here's ours (8 1/2 months)
8:15am: Wakeup
8:30am: 6 oz bottle (used to be 8 but she's refusing to drink more right now...not sure why)
9:30am: "Breakfast" (usually banana slices, veggie puffs or puree)
10:15am: Nap
12:30pm: 6oz bottle (same as above)
1:30pm: "Lunch" (pieces of whatever I'm eating...turkey, cheese, bread)
3:00pm: Nap
4:30pm: 6oz bottle
5:30-6pm: "Dinner" (whatever we're eating)
8:00pm: 6oz bottle
8:15pm: Bedtime