This is so helpful! Thank you so much!
Funny thing is, as I was writing the first post, I was going to mention that starting at about 7 1/2 months he seemed less interested in his 2nd milk feed of the day, but I thought that maybe it was just a phase. But he had to move from 3hourly to 4hourly feeds a few weeks earlier than normal, so no surprise that maybe he's ready for this move a bit early too. We just flew from the US to the UK so I'll be working the next few days to switch his body clock, but once that finished, I'll try cutting his 2nd feed and doing solids instead. If that goes well, I'll hold at 3 milk feeds a day until he seems disinterested in his afternoon milk feed and switch that one too.
So he'll be in the high chair 4 times a day! But hopefully once he gets better at eating less messily we can do the 'snacks' out and about in the pram or at least at home in the high chair with less clean-up involved for me? Is that right? Lately I feel like I spend all my time preparing, feeding, or cleaning up food.
Thanks again. I'm quite the planner, so it definitely feels better to have the next few steps mapped out in my head!