Eating schedule

• 7:30am- 8oz bottle • 8:30am- breakfast/solids • 9:30am- 8oz bottle • 11:00am- lunch/solids • 11:30am- 8oz bottle • 2:30pm- snack/solid • 3:00pm- 8oz bottle • 6:00pm- either a snack or BM • 7:30pm- dinner/ solids • 8:30pm- 4-5oz bottle w rice or oatmeal

You can probably drop those bottles down or cut one out

I would drop some of the bottle and introduce juice such as apple juice or maybe even pedialytle my daughter love both she has juice or water during the day and I feed her healthy snacks and give her a good breakfast lunch and dinner. She gets a bottle at nap time and 2 sometimes 3 bottles at night one around dinner one after bath and sometimes when she wakes up during the night

My daughter gets 16-22oz of formula daily. 2-3 meals a day with a few bites off our plate. 6:30am 6-7oz bottle 7:50 fruit and oatmeal 11:50-12:00 6-7 oz 1:00pm veggie with oatmeal 5:00 6-7oz bottle 8:30-9:00 5-6oz bottle The more food your baby eats less breastmilk/formula they need.

@Chrissy i was thinking the same but yet the daycare is saying they want to add another bottle!

@Bri yeah daycare just wants the easy mess free meals 🤦 they really only need like 24-30 oz a day and with all that food I'm exhausted for both of you trying to fit it all in

@Chrissy girl I’m saying! I have been so stressed because up till now we have only given her BM. I was pumping on my way to work, during all 3 of my breaks at work, on my way home and before i go to bed 😭

You can absolutely drop some of those bottle. My 11 month old has 4 5-6 oz bottles a day (one is an 8 oz for bed) for every oz is roughly the hour between them. I would try dropping the 9:30, push the 11:30 toward 12:30 drop 3:00 push to 6ish and keep the bedtime bottle the same and if your feeding bottles that close after a full meal you could probably even drop an oz or two on them. Offer water in between instead!

When she wakes up she has an 8 oz bottle Breakfast 2nd 8 oz bottle Nap Lunch 3rd bottle Nap Dinner 4th bottle

Nursing when baby wakes, breakfast of oatmeal with nut milk, nurse before nap, lunch and nurse before next nap, nurse when he wakes, dinner, nurse before bed. He also gets a banana or whatever snack we're having during the day and different homemade nut milks during the day. I work but my husband brings baby to my work to feed and I also WFH. Don't pump at all.

@Tiffany that’s helpful thank you! I’m just not sure how to go about this conversation with daycare. She doesn’t eat like this on weekends but daycare acts like she starves even with the amount she’s given. They asked me this week to bring a fourth bottle everyday

@Olwen jealous of you! I love breastfeeding but HATE pumping 😭

@Bri same! I used to pump so I could get more sleep at night but I just hated it so much, preferred to lose sleep and be tired 😅 I'm very grateful for my situation. Workplace is 10 mins away, husband is a stay at home dad, and getting to work from home too and set my schedule makes a big difference. Tech job.

@Bri I would be curious about her portion sizes! Maybe they aren’t big enough or not as filling as your home meals.

Hey there! So my son will eat breakfast usually is scrambled eggs, shredded cheese, and yogurt. Then at 1 he takes a 2 hour nap going down w an eight oz bottle. He wakes up and will have a snack. Usually a purée. We eat dinner at 8 ish then at 11 it’s an 8 oz bottle to go to bed

My son is almost 11 months and likes waffles or pancakes with fruit in the morning with his first bottle. He then has a 8 oz bottle every 4 hours with a snack/meal in between, times vary. He likes home cooked food usually some type of veggies mixed in with rice or pasta with juice. And also drinks those little pouches as a snack. But no more than a total of 3 to 4 bottles max a day depending on what he ate. He’s almost 30 pounds and striving.

@Bri I would refuse to bring another bottle and tell them to just give her more solids. She's almost 1, it's time to decrease bottle feedings not add another.