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Meals to sleep schedule (1 yearish)
Do you feed your child meals as soon they wake up or closer to when they are going down for the next nap?
DD is on a 2 nap schedule (10AM and 3PM, roughly). We've been feeding her breakfast/lunch/dinner with water and a small bottle, but been bad and feed her another bottle before going down for nap/bed time. Dr Chang wants us not to do that, and I know I need to, but it's hard to get her to eat enough solids to fill her up at meal time. Then, after she eats her solids she doesn't want milk (we were doing bottle before meal) until she's going to sleep. So I'm thinking maybe I need to feed her closer to nap/bedtime??
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Re: Meals to sleep schedule (1 yearish)
We don't really feed DD with regard to her naps/bedtime. She is on a loose schedule where she eats roughly every 3 hours. She usually has 3 bottles, 2 good-size meals, and 1 smaller meal. She takes two naps and sleeps from 8:30 pm to 7:30 am (on average).
Usually she gets a bottle about 30 min to an hour after waking (she isn't hungry when she first gets up), maybe eats a small breakfast of table food, takes a nap mid-morning (starts between 9:30 and 10:30 am), eats a bigger lunch meal around 11:30 am to noon, gets a bottle around 2:30 to 3:00 pm (nap #2 is sometimes before bottle #2 but sometimes shortly after bottle #2), eats a big dinner between 5:30 pm and 6:00 pm, and then gets her final bottle a few minutes before going to bed. Bedtime is between 8:30 and 9:30 pm.
We give DD a sippee of water with meals but she drinks very little of it--maybe 1 oz at a time. She won't drink formula out of the sippee.
I guess we are using the bottles like between-meal snacks. DD would totally forgo formula if she could. She loves table food, purees, snacks, etc.
I just looked back in his baby book and at 1 year he was entirely on table food - no more purees, but he did nurse [more comfort than nutrition] twice a day. His schedule was:
7:00am - Awake; nurse
7:30am - Eat breakfast
9:30am - Snack
10:30am - Nap 1 [usually 45 mins]
12:00pm - Eat lunch
1:00pm - Nap 2 [usually 1 1/2 hrs]
2:30 - Snack
5:30pm - Dinner
8:00pm - Nurse; bed
We brush DD's teeth after that last bedtime bottle. We have no plans to have DD off the bottle at 12 months since we figure she'll be stressed enough with the new baby coming into the house.