Formula and solids

I've started giving food to my little one. She eats quite well considering we have only just started, she usually eats 15-20 spoon fulls. Because of this I am skipping a feed when she eats, which in my case would be 150 ml of formula. I usually gave her 150 ml 7 times a day. I feel she's hungrier jn the evenings. The advice I see online regarding milk and food is too generic. What do exclusively formula fed babies need in terms of milk? Should I offer it anyway since it's the beginning? Should I continue as is? The advice gets clearer as babies get older 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Milk/formula should still be offered. It’s still their main source ❤️

Prepare half of the amount if you think she won’t drink it

With my first I would always give the bottle first before offering the food maybe half an hour or an hour later ❤️

Milk is the primary source of nutrition. Food is just for tastes, textures, and exploration. we started slow with one meal a day, moved to 2 around 8ish months, then 3 around 10. milk I just fed when hungry. Around 8ish months, bottles evened out to one in the morning, one at night, one mid-morning and one mid-afternoon. I dropped the midday feeds after 11 months realizing she didn't even need them, then the last 2 feeds around 13 months. For now just offer tastes of food and give milk on hunger cues as usual.

Mine eats quiet well too. I still offer the formula as a dessert and she drinks 60-90 ml.

Generally at the start you are meant to do milk first then food about an hour later so they don't drop milk too early. Or if you are prepping purees yourself you could use some of her milk in the puree so you know she's getting a bit more even if she isn't drinking quite as much milk as she was.

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