Down to 3 BF and not eating as much

[Finnegans Mom]

Hi to all!

Just this week, I've dropped a bf (the 11am "snack").  Since then, I've noticed ds hasn't been eating as well, especially at lunch.  I've been giving ds a snack at 11 when he wakes up from his morning nap which consists of sippy with formula in it and some string cheese or gold fish crackers.  He doesn't seem interested in the snack, so some days I move up his lunch earlier and he isn't interested in that either.  I KNOW they go through stages where they don't eat...I was just wanting some feedback of any kind.  I'm just worried that he isn't eating enough.  Should I go back to adding a bf? Or, just go with the flow.  I know there is a bunch of developmental stuff going on with him, he is now starting to throw his food (annoying!), he is crawling and walking a bunch more and he is trying to drop (on his own, not up to me) his morning nap.  It just hard to know if he is getting enough to eat. 

Here is his schedule:

6:30am - Up
7:00am - bf
8-8:30am- Breakfast of either fruit and cereal or yogurt or egg yolk...try not to have him throw it
10-11am - Nap
11:30 -Snack of milk with crackers or cheese...doesn't eat it
2:00-3:30 - Nap
3:30 - bf
5:30 - Dinner of a meat, fruit, veggie and bread
7:30 - bf
then bed time

He has not been eating very well at every meal.  I guess I just thought if I dropped a bf he would eat more.

Any hints would be greatly appreciated. 

Cheers,
Jill

[dkjokisch]

When we hit three feeds, I offered only water in a sippy after the AM nap (~10:30/11:00am), moved lunch to 11:30am, bf'd at 1:00pm (an hour before the PM nap), and offered a snack after the PM nap.  Here's what our schedule looked like:

7:00am - Wake and BF
8:30am - Breakfast
9:30am - Nap, 1 hour
11:30am - Lunch
1:00pm - BF
2:00pm - Nap, 1.5 hour
3:30pm - Snack
5:30pm - Dinner
7:00pm  - BF and bed

Dd also went through the "throwing food" phase.  It lasted about two months and drove us nuts as we were loathe to take her away from the table as she is very underweight.  We started watching her closely at meals, and when it looked like she was about to toss something, we stuck a hand out and gave her a nice "thank you" and a smile when handed things over.  She now deposits the food in our hand instead of tossing it.  We also started putting only 2-3 bites of food on the tray at a time and offering only one food at a time as she would pick what she liked best and toss the rest.

[Finnegans Mom]

Thank you!  That sounds great!  I'll try that schedule tomorrow.

Just when you get used to something, they switch it up on you.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks, again!

Jill

[Hihowdy]

dkjokisch,

what did you feed for that late afternoon snack?

Thanks