6 month old.

Feeding schedule at this point?. Baby is bottle fed and still demand feeding, I feel like sometimes she snacks on bottles rather than take a full feed, any other moms experienced this and got into a feeding routine?. I do try to stick to every three hours from when baby wakes up at 7.30/8am. Soon to be introducing solids and I don’t know how to fit it all in.

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Isabelle is 6 months 3 weeks and for the last 2 I've been giving her porridge and purees. She wakes around 6, has a 6oz bottle then back to sleep for an hour then she has a bowl of porridge or pureed fruit and then half an hour after that a 5oz bottle. She has another bottle 6oz around 12 then at 2-3pm she'll have another puree and another smaller bottle. She then has a final 7oz bottle before bed at 7pm

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I really stressed myself about fitting it all in but then realised that for the first few months it's about exploration and discovering new tastes and textures. Formula is still the no 1 source of nutrition until baby is 1.
Ive been doing BLW for about 2 weeks.I always give my LG her bottle first and then around 30-1hr later offer some sort of food. Sometimes she tastes other times she messes and other times she cries and doesn't even wana know. But that's ok! I've also discovered that somedays life can be busy and giving her a few corn puffs to try is better than nothing!
Her bottles atm are 5-8oz every 3 hours, with tastes of different foods between that. She's sleeping through and wakes between 7-8am

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My LO is feeding sooo much right now. Not on solids yet, but my goodness, it's every 2 or so hours the feeds, i had a really good routine, but I feel the 6-month regression is really taking it out of me

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We follow eat/play/sleep so she has a 7oz bottle (or a breastfeed) every time she wakes & one before bed. We do solids 30 mins - 1 hour after milk. So a typical day looks like this:

7am wake up & BF
8am yogurt/fruit
9am nap 1
10.15am wake up & bottle
12.30pm nap 2
1.45pm wake up & BF
2.30pm veggies
4pm nap 3
4.30pm wake up & bottle
7pm bottle & bedtime

It really helped me changing from feeding to the clock to timing it with naps. The time between feeds varies from 2.5 - 3.5 hours usually and she handles that just fine. Our day does vary like this morning she only slept for 30 minutes for nap 1 but I just follow the feeding & wake window as normal xx

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My little one is 6 months her routine is like

8.30am bottle (7oz)
1pm bottle (7oz)
3.30 food (puree)
6pm bottle (7oz)
8pm porridge and bottle (5oz)

Naps

10.30 am for 30 mins
1.30pm for 30 mins
4.30pm for an hour

Xx

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