Weaning advice

Hi everyone, my little boy 👦 💙 is just over 7 months old and I official commenced weaning when he was 6 months old (though I had offered him some tastes etc at 5.5 months).

Anyway, I started him off with 1 meal per day - it was either breakfast or lunch.
Now he is 7 months I have started offering 2 "meals" (breakfast and lunch) per day, and my plan is to increase him to 3 meals per day by the time he is 8-9 months as he is still having 630ml of milk in a 24 hour period (he has 3 x 7 ounce bottles).

Does this sound correct?

I've been feeling so overwhelmed/ anxious etc and done a lot of research and from that I have gathered that we build up to 3 meals per day by about 8-10 months.

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I would just do what works for you and your baby, we are having 3 meals a day but only because I find it easier for him to eat when I do. Every baby is different and some want more food than others, we haven’t really progressed past purées and toast though so whilst he eats frequently he’s not doing BLW.
I haven’t done masses of research, our baby has allergies to CMPA, soya, egg, peanut and tree nuts so have been seeing dieticians (who all give conflicting advice), it seems there isn’t a right way to wean and even the professionals have different opinions, try not to worry and if he seems hungry give him food and if he doesn’t want it don’t worry about it. He will get there and as he eats more you’ll relax more and find your groove.

It sounds right, a weaning baby needs 500-600ml of milk in a 24 hour period. My little boy has been having 3 meals a day for around a month now so we’re starting to drop a bottle from 3 to 2 as he no longer needs it he is full!

Thank you 😊 for your advice both of you.

@Lauren when did you start giving 3 meals per day? Was it close to 8 months, hun?
Also hun, did you say your little one is only on 2 bottles per day now?
So since I started weaning when Jacob was 6 months we have just managed to cut him down to 3 feeds per day alongside his 2 meals, but once I add a 3rd meal in, hopefully he'll want less than the 3 bottles you think?
Xxx

so around 7 months we introduced lunch as he just wasn’t satisfied with only milk, he’s really good at giving certain signs for hunger etc, he was only having breakfast and tea with 4 bottles throughout the day. When I introduced his lunch within around a week he dropped down to 3 bottles and now he’s having bigger portions he started not wanting his 1pm bottle or will take like 2oz of it and would just cry so we cut it out around a week ago and he’s been absolutely fine! He just has some snacks throughout the day to keep him full.

If this helps our routine is
6am wake up 8oz bottle
8am breakfast
9am nap
10:30am snack
12pm lunch
2pm small snack then a nap
5pm tea
7pm 8oz bottle and bed.

Yeah the more food you introduce the less milk he will start to drink, but as long as he’s having 500ml-600ml a day I really wouldn’t worry! There’s some days my little boy has 400ml then some days but I don’t worry cause I know he’s eating enough!

I hope that helped🙈 xx

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