Solids question

ClickMama · April 2012

When I've seen posts about feeding and solid schedules I rarely see anyone comment that solids are given after the last bottle of the day. Is there a reason for this? Harder to digest? Or is it just a big no no?

Just curious as I try to sort out our schedule.

SusieBW · April 2012

I think it's probably mostly a function of not wanting to mess with the bedtime routine that a lot of people already have in place before starting solids. Lots of kids nurse to sleep or have a bottle before bed as part of a routine, so that bottle or nursing session stays once solids start. I think I've usually heard that bedtime tends to be the last bottle dropped when weaning off bottles completely, too.

memali26 · April 2012

We give solids at regular meal times - bfast, lunch, dinner - and the last bottle after dinner. That bottle is kind of a bedtime snack, I guess. For DD1 it was part of her bedtime routine, so it was the last bottle we dropped. For DD2, she sometimes plays a little between bottle and bedtime, so it's not part of her routine, but it's just how the schedule falls.

festivus · April 2012

We're only on 2 "meals" a day, which I tend to do at breakfast and lunch. Since .we're on only 2 meals but 4 bottles, there's really no need to do a "meal" after the last bottle, especially when my LOs go to sleep for the night right after that last bottle.