Breakfast or bottle first?

UMichGirl · May 2013

Both DS's pedi and GI nurse have told us that by this point (10 months) he should be eating breakfast first. Well when DS wakes up and we try feeding him food, he SCREAMS. That boy wants.his.bottle.STAT! I don't know what to do--I'm sure since it's a transition it will take some getting used to, but he seriously is not having it with the food. I know he's starving and just wants his bottle.

A friend of mine who lives in another state and is a nurse at a big children's hospital told me she'd never heard that...the whole "food for fun before age 1" theory where up until they're 1, they get all the nutrition they need from their formula anyway. She said both her boys got bottles first thing in the morning until they were about 14 months.

So what do you do?

kdjudd · May 2013

I always give the bottle first. Until my daughter is a year old I plan on having milk be the center of her diet. I usually give her a bottle at 8am and then she has breakfast around 10am.

Starbear06 · May 2013

I always give milk first. And he has no problem having his breakfast after.

babyruth88 · May 2013

we have been cutting back bottles. Ava is down to 2 bottles a day in the afternoon and night time before bed. shes been fine. our pediatrician wants her off the bottle by 12 months. so in 2 weeks we will take away another. then at 12 she will be off

Scorpgirl444 · May 2013

The twins daily schedule of food goes like this:

Morning - they each get a container of Gerber yogurt and then 4oz bottle. By the time they get to the bottle sometimes they don't even want it.

Lunch - they each get a container of Gerber food. I usually make one food and one dessert and split it so they each get half a container of each.

Mid afternoon - 8 oz bottle.

Snack - Puffs or some other food they want to eat.

Dinner - Just like lunch.

Bedtime - 8 oz bottle.

Usually they always have a cup of watered down juice out too. It takes them nearly an entire day to go through 1 cup. *Sometimes* DS will move onto cup 2 but he won't even get 1/4 of the way through that one.

They also nap at 10 and 2 so there is no mid morning food because of that.

JennaNAaron · May 2013

We do a bottle first. LO usually (especially lately) wakes up starving and it's all we can do to get her changed before she freaks out wanting to eat.

SunAndRain · May 2013

Bottle first.

meganandchase · May 2013

DD is almost 10 months. She is nursed first thing every morning. She gets food an hour or two later.

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alitria · May 2013

We typically offer bottle first at home and then he eats breakfast with his babysitter. Some days, he does 16 ounces, some days more like 24. He is eating three meals a day.

7:30ish - bottle

9:00 - Breakfast with babysitter

bottle if he seems hungry mid-morning

1:00ish - lunch

2:30 - bottle before carpool if he wants it or he'll get another chance with me when we get home between 3:30 and 4:30

6:00 - dinner

7:00 - 8 ounce bottle before bed (he almost always drains this one)

4-6 ounces during the nights, usually between 2:30 and 3:30

tnd81 · May 2013

My doc just told us at his 9 mo appt to do breakfast (banana and Cheerios), an hour later bottle, nap, lunch, an hour later bottle, nap, snack, dinner, bottle, bed. Each bottle is 7oz. And offer sippy with meals of an oz or 2. This schedule has been working well so far but I also think the reduction in formula is a lil weird. He dropped a 7oz bottle with this new schedule.

TMNTgirl · May 2013

We do bottle first. He gets up at 6am and has a bottle, breakfast isn't until 730/8am.

Even after my older DS turned 1 we just did a sippy of milk first thing am. He's 2.5 years old now and just started not wanting his morning cup of milk and instead he'll just drink it with his breakfast.

I don't see us stopping first thing in the morning milk for a long time. After he turns 1 we'll just switch to a sippy of WCM.

Gismo123 · May 2013

I go with the old sayingt "food is fun till 1" so Milk is the primary nutrition in my son's diet. I give him boobie time 1st thing in the morning around 7 or 8...whenever he wakes up....then half an hour later he gets yogurt for breakfast.

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