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when did your LO really start cutting back on BM/formula?
It's a struggle to get even 12 ounces into Avery, on top of all her solids plus two nursing sessions.
I think she's eating "enough" but it's hard to know how to read her cues.
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Re: when did your LO really start cutting back on BM/formula?
E nurses well when she first wakes up and before bed, but she's definitely less interested in her 3 bottles at daycare. It's a good day if she takes 12 total ounces. Today she had 11.
But at our 9 month appt., our pedi said she'd be happy if E got at least 18 ounces a day and I think we probably come close to that with bottles + nursing (she usually nurses once overnight still).
We're going through the frozen BM that we have and Megan gets three 6-oz bottles and a 4-oz bottle each day. So she's still taking 22oz which is only 2oz less than what she was taking at her highest. Because she's small her pedi suggested we try to not drop the amount she was getting, therefore we added the small 4oz bottle in the evening. She also doesn't really get a big lunch because we're trying to keep the afternoon bottle before naptime.
Here's our breakdown:
5oz of solids for breakfast 7:15
6oz bottle 9:00 (naptime)
small snack 12:00-1:00
6oz bottle 2:00 (naptime)
4-6oz solids for dinner 4:00-5:00
4oz bottle 5:30
6oz bottle 7:30 (bedtime)
Sometimes she won't finish a bottle and pushes it away when she's done. And when she's done, she's done. When she was taking smaller bottles sometimes she'd be fussy when it was empty so that was a sign that she wanted more.
Megan Hope 2yrs 3months