Feeding schedule once on solids

Re: Feeding schedule once on solids

• MrsWindyCity member

  July 2013

  You shouldn't decrease it, especially in the beginning. Eventually she might take a little less, but always offer formula before solids. DS1 actually never decreased the number of nursing sessions or the amount of bottles he took at DCP even after solids until he was a year. If she eats every 3 hours I'd probably do bottle, wait about an hour for solids, bottle again about 2 hours later. We didn't move up to 2 solid meals until about 7.5 months, and then 3 around 8-9.

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• plusoneblog

  July 2013

  I started solids a few days ago, and most of the food doesn't actually get eaten. Instead it ends up all over my baby's face, hands, clothes, the high chair, etc  If you start off with fruit, veggies and rice cereal, none of those foods is particularly high in calories. A whole little jar might be like 25 calories, and it is unlikely your baby will eat more than half the jar, a lot is wasted.

  As for a schedule, right now we are doing just lunch and dinner, usually an hour or two after she breastfed or had a bottle.

  

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• amykins1283 member

  July 2013

  My plan is to start DS2 at 5 months or so.  I'm just waiting for his tongue thrust reflex to completely disappear since he's showing every other sign of being ready.  I am going to start with one serving of solid food in the evening, about an hour after his second to last bottle, and do that for about a month to get a good rotation of different types of foods.  Then I am going to add in another feeding in the morning for a month or two an hour or so after his first bottle.  I am thinking that around 7 to 8 months would be a good time to start going to a breakfast, lunch, and dinner schedule in between bottles.  

  We were a little more aggressive with DS1 when we started solids but that was because he had severe reflux and would vomit 1/4 to 1/2 of each bottle feeding so he needed more nutrition and solids stayed down better.   

  Generally what we saw with the formula was that DS1 slowly started taking more ounces in each bottle and going longer stretches between each feeding.  By the time we were weaning at one year he was down to three bottles a day at 8 ounces each.   

  
  

  
   
  

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