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April 2012 Moms
sarahbethd10
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Breastfeeding/Solids Schedule
sarahbethd10
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Asher will be 6 months old this week and we are starting to introduce solids. However, I have no idea how much/ how often to give him solids. Once you start baby food, how do you know what to give him when? Do you give fruits and veggies at different times or do more than one at one feeding? Do solids replace nursing times or are they additional? Sorry for all of the questions...I'm just so clueless. What does your breastfeeding/solids schedule look like including naps? We are having trouble with Asher not sleeping at night so I'm wondering if I should change up his nap schedule. Also, he eats 4.5 oz of breastmilk every 3 hours. Thanks in advance for any tips!
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Re: Breastfeeding/Solids Schedule
L is still new to solids. We do Earth's Best stage 1 baby food. I started her with cereal, but it really upset her stomach so we stopped. Her schedule is
5oz bottle breastmilk in the morning
About an hour to two hours later we do 1/2 a jar of fruit baby food.
She may have an oz or two more of BM and then 1st nap.
6oz BM between 1st and 2nd nap.
1/2 a 5oz bottle of BM after 2nd nap.
1/2 jar veggie baby food
Finishes her 5 oz bottle shortly afterward
6.5-7oz formula before bed
Things I noticed were that she would want her bottle shortly after eating her baby food. I guess to wash it all down. Try giving your LO a BM before you feed the baby food so that he's not grumpy. The first week we started baby food, we only gave her 1/3 of a jar twice a day. She did really well, so we upped the amount. She used to be up twice a night to eat, but since we started solids, she went down to one feeding and then last night she STTN for the first time! Yay! Downside to solids is now her poop is more firm and smells like real poop. It makes DH and I gag. Be warned. Haha
LO still breastfeeds his same amount of times. He eats oatmeal in the morning--about 2 oz, and veggies at dinner time--we just upped that to 2 oz. Each time is about 1-1.5 hrs after he last had bm. Sometimes at dinner I'll nurse him after he eats because he gets hungry--maybe he still wants more?
I want to keep bm as his primary nutrition source, so I'm not overeager to give him lots of food yet. It's more to get him introduced to eating food.
we just started but they should keep the same amount of BM/formula for awhile.
offer food about an hour after bm/formula so they aren't full but it isn't taking away from their milk
we are only doing food at dinner for now
Mostly I offer her some food at dinner time. Usually I get home at 545pm and not too long after that she'll want to nurse. I give her one side, then do the dinner stuff and while we eat (at maybe 7pm) I give her something.
So far I've offered avocado, sweet potato sticks (roasted), banana, pear, and once at the weekend I offered oatmeal. The past couple of nights she's been eating from a pouch of food (brocolli peas and pears) and seems to like that more that anything else she's been offered.
Still though she has eaten at most 1oz of food from the pouch and probably only about half of that she swallowed. So that means she's taking in about... 6 calories from food per day. So I doubt it will be affecting her milk intake any time soon.
once she starts getting fussy then she gets the second boob and bedtime.
To be honest I thought she'd be one of those babies that just starts hoovering up entire avocados as soon as offered but she shows little interest in actually swallowing anything, seeming only to want to play with food, put it in her mouth and spit it all over her front.
It's a huge mess.
We just started last week. I started with oatmeal. I started with 1tsp cereal to 2tsp BM, and now we are at 1tbl cereal and 2+tbl BM. I was giving it to him at dinnertime (1/2 hr after nursing), and today started having DC offer it after one of his bottles. We'll be starting veggies Friday.
Random tip: I haven't started this with DS2 yet, but with DS1, I gave him a sippy of 2oz BM (would work for formula too) to drink with his solids. It got him used to the sippy and he would "wash down" the solids. I graduated him to each stage of sippy (6mo, 9mo, 12mo, 18mo) and had absolutely no issue getting rid of the bottle at one year.