Weaning and bottles

For those weaning and giving baby a breakfast and a tea. Have you noticed your baby want to drop a bottle yet?
I'm struggling to fit everything in. Like tonight he fussed over his 5pm bottle. He had half a little jar of food at 6.30 and then he ended up getting overtired and fell asleep before having his bedtime bottle 😑
Finding it hard knowing what to do and how to fit it all in.
Wonder if I should skip his tea time bottle give the food instead then he will have a bedtime one? 🤔

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I found it took a while to fit in two meals, because of his wake windows, so now he’s able to stay awake longer I managed to do breakfast and tea. Don’t worry about trying to fit loads of food, my baby naturally dropped a bottle once he realised he was getting more food. Hope this helps. X

are you giving solids before his bottle? The reason I said about dropping his tea time bottle for food instead was because he missed his bedtime one and I thought he would be better off having that one as normal still x

Nope always afterwards. I see, your meant to offer milk before solids before they turn one. How many bottles does he usually have in a day? X

yeah I have been doing that still. 5 but one of them is when he stirs a little at about 5am. Don't think he really needs that one if he started sleeping through as he only has about 4oz of it anyway.
I mean I will still offer him the bottle I guess even if he only drinks 4oz instead of 6 its something! 🙂

I see yeah, my little one did the same on his last bottle, I offered him it and he drank a few ozs. X

My 6 month old is a chunk and has a bottle in morning say 7.30 a small meal at 11 and a 7 ounce bottle at 12 then naps, he has a larger more filling meal at 4 without a bottle but with some water of a drop of juice in it and I do him 8 ounce at 8 but he usually sticks with his 7 ounce th3n sleeps right through the night from 9 onwards. I didn't find it hard to cut out a bottle as he loves his food. I just have snacks on standby incase

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I'm struggling. Have been for a while. I've had one break from parenting my daughter, that was for 3 hours in December when I left her with her dad.

She's 14 months old and I'm just tired. I've done every night by myself. He's out of bed at 4am and doesn't get home until 7-9pm. He drives for work, very physically tiring.
On the weekends he was doing 6 days, one weekend day off, but now has both off.

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The same day I told him I was going to run her bath and to watch her whilst she was still eating, he fell asleep on the sofa.

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I said - Probably because I haven't had a break since December.

"Do you think I don't know you haven't had a break. I haven't had a break", "I just won't go to work, I'll sit at home all day".

Then "do you think I like not having a connection to my child"... But that's on him? He never sits to play with her. He "doesn't see the point". He's stated that this age is boring to him.

Since she's been born, he has been to a friend's once a month. Football - He stopped going for 7months, but has been the last two weekends.

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