Thanks for your insights, Ladies!
We dropped down from 4 BFs to 3BFs when DD dropped to one nap. If you feel the post-2nd nap one is getting too close to dinner, that might be the one to try to drop first. I'd try to be led by her as to whether she seemed like she was hungry before offering a snack there, especially as you're saying it's fairly close to dinner.
Hmm... maybe we should just keep things the way they are then. She seems perfectly fine with it. I am always amazed that she can take two BFs and a smaller solid meal in 2 hours time (sometimes less time if her second nap ends late) but this little girl just keeps eating and eating and eating!
I think it is very wisde to be careful when introducing new foods if you have a history of food allergies and intolerances. Have you found that your DD has any reactions so far? How much wheat have you given her? As far as I understand it ios is fairly hard to diagnose coeliacs in very young LOs.
We used to give her baby oatmeal but I started to suspect it might be causing her to be very gassy and fussy so we switched to rice cereal. Of course, now we have constipation troubles but that's another story!!!
It's hard to know for sure as we've struggled with nws for ages so a lot of the time I don't know what they are due to.
You can give other milks to dairy. Has she had any dairy before though?
Only by "accident." The other day, for instance, DH gave her some shredded wheat cereal soaked in milk that he was eating. (He is way more lax than me and didn't admit to it until later
) and she was EXTREMELY gassy the rest of the day. Of course, that could have been a reaction to the wheat OR the milk so it is hard to tell. I guess she has had the occasional formula with dairy (mostly I BF) but for a long time when we do use formula we have used one for gassy babies. To be honest, she has had so many digestive issues and such throughout her life (dealt with my Over-Active Letdown for months, extremely gassy as a newborn and still is pretty gassy, tentative reflux diagnosis, etc.) that it is hard to pin-point what causes what!
WHO actually recommends 4BF/day til 1yo, so its not a terrible thing to keep BFing
Oh, cool! That's good to know!
We had NWs until 14 months due to his food allergies so actually it could have been some if that too with hindsight!
Ew, that's so hard. I definitely can relate on the NWs. How did they stop? Is that when you figured out the food allergies?