Fitting everything in.....

[mimi21]

Hi all,

My dd is 6.5 months old and we've been introducing solids for about a month.

She just never seems hungry.
Am in the process of redoing her routine have a post going on the easy forum.

We are just dropping the 3 am feed bit there doesn't seem to be enough hours in day nor does she seem hungry enough to want her breakfast, lunch or dinner and I struggle to get her to take her bottle at times too. We've just had another unsuccessfulunch

She has a bottle at wake up, today at 6
Breakfast at 7:45
Botttle when up from nap at 10:50
Lunch at 12:15
Will do bottle when she wakes after next nap around 3:30
Dinner at 5
Bottle at 6:30
Bed at 7.

It just seems like a lot. Do I drop another bottle even tho we are just dropping the night feed?

[anna*]

You know she really doesn't need three meals a day at this stage. Just one or two is plenty. I wouldn't be dropping any daytime feeds yet. Remember food at this stage is just for fun, it's just tastes and textures. But yes, there is a period where it feels like all you are doing is feeding - milk or solids. It passes. In a few months time she will have dropped a daytime feed and by the time she is 1 will probably be having milk just am and pm.

[mimi21]

What would you suggest? Lunch and dinner or breakfast and dinner?

She has 5 bottles a day. She doesn't really eat much at whatever time I try to feed her. Although she does like to try herself.

[anna*]

Whichever you prefer, whichever is convenient and she tends to eat better at. Your routine shows 4 bottles a day? 5 is a lot.

Maybe she would prefer baby led weaning? You just give her bits of finger food and she can play with them and hold them/lick them and eventually start to eat them. We did that with my daughter she has never ever let me feed her from a spoon!

[mimi21]

I was thinking of baby led, bit scared tho.

Well she has bottles at
6/7
10/11
2/3
6/6:30
And 10pm
She was also having a night feed at 3am ish that we are in process of dropping.

Toast for dinner? Dry or with a little something on?

[anna*]

Toast is good, with some butter on. Steamed carrot sticks, a steamed spear of broccoli, a wedge of ripe pear - anything she can hold and lick. At this stage spears are better than little bits which are tricky for her to pick up.

Oh OK i didn't realise you were counting the 10pm feed, that's fine, normal.

[mimi21]

Ok, will maybe just keep going with the 3 meals as I want her to be used to eating at same time as her sister but I'll try more finger foods and not stress too much.
On Saturday we were out and about and she missed a bottle the 2/3 one, didn't seem to mind then eat a full diner of veg plus a yoghurt. Then had a bottle around 6:30.