Have I been doing it wrong?

I’ve only been giving my 7 month old boy 1 meal a day and the rest of the day milk.
Should it be 3 meals a day? I feel like such a bad mum feeling like I’ve been doing it all wrong!

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All they need is milk until age 1. Food is just for exploring and learning how to swallow, textures, etc. It’s really up to you how many meals you want to introduce. I think we were doing 2 around that age. Check out solid starts. It’s a great resource for introducing foods to babies.

Nope. You just need to work up to 3 full meals by 12 months. How you get there depends on how you're doing solids and how he is taking to them.

I did it month by month so 1 meal for a couple of months now he’s 8 months he’s on 2 meals and once he turns 10 months he’ll be upped to 3. He’s down to 4 bottles a day of around 5-7 oz and he’s not yet ready to drop to 3 bottles we’ve tried a few times adding in That extra meal and removing a bottle but he ended up needed that 4th bottle too. I will say he is on the bigger side he’s in 12-18 month clothing now. You’ll know what’s best for your baby and how you need to do it. Introduce another meal and see how it goes. It’s mostly trial and error especially with when the best time is to feed the meals against bottles

All I've seen is 'food before 1 is just for fun' but after seeing your post I've just checked the NHS website and it does say 3 meals a day from around 7 months!! My little one sometimes has days with none 😬 I clearly need to up my game, so thanks for this!!x

Thank you everyone! I looked on google and it says by 7 months 3 meals a day. And I see a lot of people saying they are atleast at 2 meals a day now so was feeling like I was behind

yeah this is exactly me at the moment. I was shocked to see 3 meals a day by 7 months to be honest… don’t get me wrong my little boy loves his food but I always thought he needed more milk than food

if you look at the wording it says gradually increase to 3 meals between 7-9 months. There's no hard and fast rule either. The NHS is also suggesting traditional weaning vs BLW which has other guidelines to follow. You'll absolutely know when your baby wants more food.

My girl turned 6 months on the 19th and we've been trying food once a day and she has zero interest. Just spits it out. Really not sure what to do myself.

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