Weaning

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I did 1 meal for 4 weeks, 2 meals for 4 weeks and then 3. Don't change number of bottles, just offer the food in between. Until around 1, bottles is for nutrition and food is for experience. After 1 food is more for nutrition than bottles. Even then I'd guess still give 2 bottles of milk a day, and cows milk is okay from 1. And offer sips of water with food (boiled then cooled)

So it all depends how old baby is when it comes to BLW as this is recommended from 6 months old and no earlier. I started my little one on purées and we done 1 puree for 3 days to ensure baby isn’t allergic to it. And when you start weaning if you do purées you only do it once a day and the rest is bottles. After the first couple of weeks once you know baby isn’t allergic to things you can blend up whatever you and dad are having and let baby have that in a puree form. Baby doesn’t need to be on 3 meals a day until around 9-12 months depending on their appetite. And your baby will gradually drop their bottles themselves once they start eating more and they will either refuse it or stop finishing it. As for BLW I only started it when my little girl turned 11 months old as I didn’t have the confidence to do it sooner😅x

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We did BLW at 6 months. We started off with offering food once a day and kept all of his bottles to the same routine. By 7 months we introduced food twice a day and at 9 months 3 times per day. I offered him his milk as usual and he naturally started to take less milk as his food intake increased. By 10 months old he was only on bottles 3 times per day. At 12 months he moved onto 3 meals and two snacks with his formula once a day before bed. If you decide to do BLW they will consume less food for the first few months than they would if being fed purées by you from a spoon. But that’s ok as they will eat what they can manage and will be getting their main nutrition from their milk. Just go with the flow and what feels right. Don’t give too much in the early stages - as their milk intake shouldn’t start reducing until around 8 months and it will be very gradual so long as they’re not getting too much food before 12 months xx

I really played it by ear which sounds difficult but it was actually simpler than I thought it would be once we had gotten used to it. My son loves milk and food so I think we got lucky on that. When he first started we did thickish purees and mashes of single and mixed veggies, never had runny purees. We did this once a day and he kept his milk the same. Then around 7 months he started having some porridge and fruit at breakfast and milk still the same. Started offering some BLW suitable pieces of food along side the purees. By 9 months he was having 3 meals and no purees. He dropped his lunchtime bottle and replaced it with food first about 8 months. He was having milk, breakfast, mid morning milk, lunch, mid afternoon milk, dinner, bedtime milk up until about 11 months. Then we swapped the mid morning milk for a food snack. Mid afternoon milk started dropping about 13 months and he now has a food snack if he wants it. He's 15 months and still has a wake up and bedtime bottle.

I started at 4.5 months on first tastes of veg (I chose purées not BLW to start), he had a veg for 2 days then swap and I followed the Ella’s kitchen purple book giving it around lunchtime, at 5.5 months i introduced some finger foods, like whole veg, toast etc and I was doing 2 times a day morning and lunch. Then at 6 months I introduced some meals mainly what I ate the night before for a week and then he went onto 3 meals a day. He’s now 7 months he eats 3 meals a day, 1/2 snacks and a dessert after dinner. He didn’t drop any bottles until he went onto full meals so he went from 5 bottles a day to 4 and then when he went onto 3 meals a day it took about a month and then he dropped to 3 bottles a day x