Offering food before milk?
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@Lauren ahh I see. My Lb is still having 6-7 bottles a day. I’d like to decrease the bottle but maybe increase the amounts / longer between milk feeds. It’s so hard to get it right. @Alex thank Alex, I might look into this and give it a go adjusting where I need to.
I had to prep little one for nursery so I offered solids and ended the meal with offering milk. She then filled up quite well on food and then just had a top up of milk after to make sure she was full. I didn’t give milk a while earlier or later than food if that makes sense
Thanks @Becky yeah this makes sense. This is the same as us. My Lb starts daycare next month so trying to prep for that.
No problem! I was doing exactly the same giving 5/6 bottles a day but he wasn’t interested in his meals.. since doing this routine he has all 3 meals and eats a good amount! She said to look at every bottle as a ‘meal’ essentially which I thought helped. She also told me to drop the night feed as he was having a bottle around 4am.. and he’s actually been fine with it.. think we both just thought he needed it sort of thing. So he has last bottle at 7pm then breakfast at 8am, first bottle is usually around 9:30 xxx
Milk 6am Breakfast 9am (made with his formula and drinks the rest of the milk) Lunch 12 Dinner 3 Milk 6pm Has between 18-22oz milk which HV advised correct for his age.
I tried that and I found that he drank literally no milk as he was full from his feeds so now I do Milk - 6:30/7am Breakfast -7:30/8 Milk - 12/12:30 Lunch 1/1:30 Dinner - 4:30/5 Milk - bedtime - 7ish He's still not drinking them all but I wasn't wasting so much milk