Hi there,
My nearly 10 month olds schedule is as follows:
6.30/7 - up
6.45/7.15 - BF
7.45 - solids 1/2-1 cup of protein and veggies (some of which is finger foods)
9.30 - morning tea - cheese sticks or crackers and some banana
9.45 - BF (are daycare takes 130ml EBM)
10 - nap
11/11.15 wake
11.30/12 - solids - 1/2-1 cup of protein and veggies as above
2.15/2.45 - BF (at daycare takes 220-240ml EBM)
2.30/3 - nap
3.45/4 - wake
5.15/5.30 - solids - veggies 1/2- 1 cup plus 2 tbsp on yogurt, pear and kiwi
7.15/7.30 - BF
7.45-8 sleep
She is well established on solids - though just recently has refused to open her mouth for brekkie, and lunch has been a struggle, however this am I placed her mash on her tray and she so wolfed it down do thinking resistance may have been wanting to feed herself more!
I've started working 2 days and she is in daycare 2 days a week - only been one week so far and I've included the amounts she drinks at daycare.
She does have milk before her naps and though she does get drowsy I give a cuddle which she snuggles into after quick look around the room, then I place her in bed and she's straight to sleep. This is generally the same for the arvo nap...at night it seems like at the moment there is some separation anxiety in play and I stay a foot or two from the cot whilst she drifts off, usually leaving her room before she's fallen asleep - if I leave too soon she stands and rattles the bar and eventually screams. So overalls I'd say she isn't fed to sleep and it's not a prop but it's defo part of her routine for sleep.
So my question...I'm wondering if/when to drop the pre nap feeds? She's just started in the last week or two having morning tea just before and prior to that she was just having one side BF rather than a full feed. I would like to continue BF post 1 yr but had evisaged this being 2 feeds a day morning and evening as shortly after her first birthday I will be working full time.
The one that make sense for me to drop is the morning pre nap first, though I'm also thinking I should look at switching first to brekkie first then milk - initially I didn't do this as she was sooo hungry on waking..l's he isn't now however those work days I need to leave the house at 7.20am and we would ideally like to keep the same wake up time for her rather than earlier....so say she's up at 6.45 getting brekkie in and straight after a milk feed by 7.20 seems a lot to fit in.
My other concern with the switch to solids first in the morning is whether she's going to be super hungry as she's used to have a full feed around 7, and hour later solids, and hours and a bit later a snack then straight after milk....whereas changing it over she's be going 2 plus hours without anything - which as I write it I realise it isn't actually that long ha ha!
I really want to try and avoid an extra pump session in the morning,mash I think a suggestion may be for her to be given EBM a bit after brekkie rather than immediately - I'm currently expressing 3 X a day on work days and once a day on other days (though I poss may not need to keep this up as the first week I pretty much met her need whilst at daycare in the three pumps I did)...
So I guess 2 questions...
1) should I be going breakie then milk and do people thing doing this in 30 mins is realistic or do I need to bite the bullet and get her up earlier?
2) what about starting to drop mi feeds so we're are at 2/3 by 1 - ESP strategies for dropping prenup ones when they are a big part of the sleep time routine...
Thanks in advance lovely ladies!
