Food and routine

Hi all,

Just wanted to know what sort of routing you have for your little ones with their bottles and food? I’ve recently dropped my LO’s 11am bottle, so should I be replacing this with a snack or just wait and give her lunch at 12ish? Only because they say babies don’t need snacks until the are 1 but I feel like I’m failing by not offering anything. She doesn’t necessarily ask for the food, just expects it🤣

She’s recently started waking up in the night, screaming every 1-2 hours until I either give her calpol or milk (even though this was dropped weeks and weeks ago!)

Thank you x

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It could be that dropping that bottle is causing the night wakes. I tried to drop our morning bottle as LO was hit and miss about it, however it was obvious that he needed some of it still as we had night wake ups at every hour as a result. Adding it back in and he slept again. It could also just be a coincidence and a growth spurt and or regression requiring more milk.

In terms of routine for food. This is ours.

6.45am - 4oz bottle.
8am - breakfast
10am bottle /nap.
11am snack
12.15 lunch
1.30 bottle/nap
3pm snack
5pm dinner
7pm bottle
7.30 bed

Sometimes wakes up for a bottle between 1am and 3am. X

My little boy has
7am - 9oz of wake up bottle
8am breakfast
9-:10:30am Nap
11 snack
12 lunch
2pm-3pm nap
Bottle 9oz at 5:45 and sleep for 6!

7oz bottle 7am
Breakfast 8:15/8:30am
Nap
Lunch 12:00
Nap 1:30/2pm
7oz bottle 3pm
Dinner 5pm
Bottle and bed 7oz x

Currently-
0730ish wake up
Breakfast
10am 6oz bottle
1030 nap
1200 lunch
1330 bottle
1430 snack
1500 nap
1700 dinner
1930 bottle
2000 bed.
This is all approximate as he regularly changes his day around 😅

My LO has
6:30am 8oz bottle
8:30am breakfast
12pm lunch
5pm tea
6:30pm 8/9oz bottle
Asleep for 7pm
X

Thank you all, I’m going to see how she gets on tonight. She has drank all her bottles today and eaten most of her food so surely it can’t be hunger? X

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