Hi there
My 7 mo DS has been on solids for about 2 months and took to it with gusto. He is a big boy with a huge appetite so has been having large bottles (240ml/8oz) 4 times a day and still wakes for one bottle in the night (a slightly smaller one of about 180ml).
The amount of solids he has is a fairly big bowl. I do home made and freeze the puree into ice cube trays, so he has about 4 ice cubes of veges/meat - somewhere between 2/3 cup to 1 cup.
My query is about a few things so bear with me (and apologies if in wrong category).
EASY looks like this:
6/6.30 am WU/bottle
7/7.30 am solids
9 am sleep
11 am WU/bottle
12 pm solids
1/1.30 pm sleep
3/3.30 pm WU/bottle
5 pm solids
6.30 pm bottle/bed
3.30 am bottle (although this varies).
1 - He sometimes isn't hungry for his 3 pm bottle. Mucks around on it for a while. He isn't eating GIANT meals at lunch but obviously I am doing something wrong as he isn't waking up hungry for that bottle. And then it kind of turns into this half bottle gone / solids time / then a new bottle at bedtime.
I'm keen to make sure he goes to bed at night for a long, sustained sleep so feel like he should be getting more milk in around late afternoon. I can't remember when babies are supposed to stop waking in the night for hunger, I assume it around about now (7 months).
What should I do to make his feeding a little better in the afternoon? Not worry about it? Feed solids first was one suggestion from a child nutritionist I talked to in a FB live chat.
2 - He has slept through the night (12 hours) once about a week ago. That was a one-off. But he wakes once in the night, usually about 3.30/4 am, but sometimes earlier (like last night was about 1.15am), and I feel that happens on the nights when he doesn't have that big bottle before bed. Maybe I'm reading into that too much?!
3 - I plan to start resettling him in about a week once things in our house calm down a little. I'm a SAHM mum but working on an event part time and that has made things a little more chaotic, so would rather wait until after next Saturday to tackle resettling in the night. In saying that I don't always just rush in and feed him - make sure he's warm, can reach his dummy etc and give him 10 minutes before we go and feed him when he wakes in the night. That sometimes works but not always. So - do you think he is possibly ready to be night weaned?
4 - If yes he should be night weaned, should I start by reducing bottle size offered? I have made that night bottle a little smaller than day bottles already, but maybe I should go a little smaller.
Sorry that the above is in one topic, but my questions feel all a bit linked (to me anyway).
THANKS!