Weaning a DT feed - now wants a NT feed

[Buntybear]

Hi,

DS is 11 months old now and I dropped his pm feed 2 days ago. Both nights he has woken at 10pm ish for a full feed.

Is this just part of him getting used to it - shall I wait a few more days to see if he settles into the new routine? Or am I doing something wrong?

Our routine is;

8am WU and BF
9 breakfast (oatmeal, toast, fruit, water/juice)
11.30 BF
12-2 nap
2pm lunch (4oz meat/veg puree and finger foods, fruit, water)
4 snack (fruit, rice cakes, oat milk)
5 dinner (same as lunch)
6.30/7 BF and BT

Am thinking maybe I should juggle it about a bit? We are dairy/soy/wheat/egg free so solid intake is a bit limited.

[mymay1]

Hi!

I'm not there yet (DS is 5 mo) but in the book Tracy explains how to wean from DF.
It should be slowly, every few days move the DF a bit earlier and lower the amount/time of the feed until you reach small amout near bed time.

Good luck!
May.

[Buntybear]

Hi - I am weaning a DAY TIME feed! Sorry should have made that clearer 

[mymay1]

Did you increase the amount of food he is getting in the other meals?

[Tay]

Hi there,
 was looking at your routine and was wondering: is there any particular reason why you decided to wean the pm feed? (was your LO getting less interested in it? is that why?)Any particular reason why you chose the pm feed instead of the am?
Also thought it was very different then when I did that it looks like you didn't move your am feed at all (is that right?).

With us what I done was that we went from: 7am,(8.30 solids) 11am (12.30 solids) 3pm (5.30solids) and 7pm to
7am (8.30am solids) 12 (solids) 2.30pm (5.30pm solids) 7pm


Another question: before you weaned of the pm feed was your LO STTN?

xxx

[Buntybear]

Did you increase the amount of food he is getting in the other meals?

Trying to! Have added that snack in too.

[Buntybear]

Hi there,
 was looking at your routine and was wondering: is there any particular reason why you decided to wean the pm feed? (was your LO getting less interested in it? is that why?)Any particular reason why you chose the pm feed instead of the am?
Also thought it was very different then when I did that it looks like you didn't move your am feed at all (is that right?).

With us what I done was that we went from: 7am,(8.30 solids) 11am (12.30 solids) 3pm (5.30solids) and 7pm to
7am (8.30am solids) 12 (solids) 2.30pm (5.30pm solids) 7pm


Another question: before you weaned of the pm feed was your LO STTN?

xxx

Hi,

It has co-incidided with dropping to 1 nap so had already moved 1 BF to before nap. I then did lunch, BF, dinner and BT BF in the 2nd A time. It was the BF between his lunch and dinner he showed less interest in so dropped it. Not surprising given the timings of his solids I guess.

Reason I chose to drop the pm feed is partly due to the above but also that I can't see him being hungry enough for lunch only an hour or so after brekkie. Brekkie does seem to be his biggest meal of the day at the mo, even only 1 hr after BF.

DS has many issues at night and so rarely sleeps through. I do often feed at night but only because he has 2 hr NWs and it is out of desperation. He will only take 1 side at these times. These last 2 nights he has taken a full feed and appear to be hungry.

We have had other issues to contend with these last few weeks - teething, operation, anti biotics, transition, these long NWs, food intolerances - so things are a bit all over the place!

[Tay]

Sorry I haven't replied earlier, been really busy with all the preparations for Christmas. How are you getting on?

[Buntybear]

Hi, still got NWs so hard to say really. Think it is a matter of wait and see I guess. Any advice on feeding routine welcome though!

[Tay]

We have had other issues to contend with these last few weeks - teething, operation, anti biotics, transition, these long NWs, food intolerances - so things are a bit all over the place!

All of these things can play havoc with our LOs, so just take your time.

I would probably try to swap the feeds around (feed pm instead of am) for a few days to see if it makes any difference. I found that DS also lost interest in the pm feed (as well as the am) but soon got interested again whenever I dropped the one feed.
You can drop the 11.30am feed and give lunch instead (or even about half an hour later), then nap and wake up to BF. Do you think it could work?
xx

[Buntybear]

Hi,

I could try it, problem is our first A time is only 4 hrs at the mo so it is a struggle to fit in a BF and 2 solid meals! Mind you, I originally put off swapping as meal times were taking 45 mins and there would hardly have been a break between breakfast and lunch for him to get hungry, now it is shorter it would be more doable.

Thanks for your replies