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Feeding Schedule for your 7 month old???

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What was/is your baby's feeding schedule like at 7 months? I am going on a 10 day vacation, without the baby Sad, and am working up a schedule for food and bottles. As he is exclusively nursing, and we don't want to introduce formula, I want to make sure we have enough milk stored up. Also, how much were you feeding in each serving? By then, he will be doing breakfast, lunch and dinner. Thanks!!!
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Re: Feeding Schedule for your 7 month old???

  • Luvofmylife3Luvofmylife3 member
    My LO is only six months now and we feed 2 times a day but by the time he is seven months we will be feeding three times a day. He should be getting 24 to 32 oz of milk a day, 1/4 cup of an iron fortified cereal a day which I usually mix with a fruit for breakfast then 4 to 5 tablespoons of two more pures which I do some type of veggie or one is a mix like 2 T avocado and 2 T banana. How much solids are you doing now?
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  • bluesgurl31bluesgurl31
    He currently eats 3 tbsp of oatmeal for lunch and 2 oz of a fruit or vegetable for dinner.
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  • unaveragejaneunaveragejane member

    At 7 months, DS could go about 3 hours between bottles and was eating about 30 oz of formula per day. He dropped from 6 bottles to 5 around this time and also started napping better. For solids, I would feed him about an hour after his bottle, usually about 2-3 tbsp at a time. At that age, I pretty much just did 2 meals per day (1 in the early morning and one around lunch time) b/c his last two bottles of the day were only 2 hours apart.

    Also, just a side note...I try to ensure that at least one meal a day has some kind of food to make him "go" b/c he tends to favor foods that are constipating like bananas and orange vegetables. I keep plums and mangoes handy to mix in, and they do the trick very well.

                 

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  • libra31libra31 member

    Is he sttn?  My kids all were by 7mo and down to 2 naps a day.  Usually only nursing 4x/day or taking a 6oz bottle.  Occasionally the morning bottle was bigger...7oz.  Or they would have 5 feedings if they happened to wake early around 5-6.  But schedules generally looked like this:

    7ish-nurse

    9-nap

    11:30ish-nurse

    2- nap

    4-nurse 

    7-nurse and bed 

     

    DD(7), DS(4.5), DS(2.5), DS(baby)
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