solids before milk
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Topic: solids before milk
Posted By: NovemberMum
Subject: solids before milk
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 9:05pm
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so soon I will be giving my girl solids before milk feeds...how many milk feeds did your baby have and did they eventually drop some milk feeds due to been full enough form their solids? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: butefulbaby
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 10:07pm
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Plunkett recommend you give milk before solids (within 1/2 hour) and to make sure that milk is still their main form of nutrition.
We feed Hannah her bottle but tend to wait a bit longer before giving solids than the half hour. Whatever works I say! We haven't dropped any milk feeds at all. She's a hungry little mite!! |
Posted By: sally belly
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 10:09pm
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We have just switched Liam over to having food before milk. He's having 3 BF's a day - he was having 4 but I dropped one feed when we made the switch.
It may depend on how much she is eating but I would think she'd drop a feed at some point because she's full up from the food. -------------    
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Posted By: butefulbaby
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 10:25pm
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Oh crumbs I am so confused about what I'm supposed to be doing with solids. My plunkett nurse is really not very interested in helping me at all. When should you strat giving solids before milk.? I have just realised how unhelpful my plunkett nurse has been.
So sorry if I gave wrong advice just then when I need help myself aaarrgghh!! 
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Posted By: NovemberMum
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 10:28pm
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butefulbaby how old is your baby....when you first starting solids you give milk before solids as that is still their main source of nutrition.
it is generally around 8 months (and is just a guideline would depend how long they have been on solids for?) that you start giving solids before milk. this is all new to be too but I will get there :) ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: butefulbaby
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 10:43pm
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My little one is 7 months old. She started solids at 5 months and eats like a trooper.
I feed her bottle and solids apart from each other. I spoke to the doctor about it the other day when I was there and she said it really doesn't matter if that's the way she wants to eat. She had an operation today. Poor little angel. I'm jaded! 
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Posted By: NovemberMum
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 11:09pm
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aww what was the operation for? I hope she gets back to her normal self again soon. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 8:35am
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Keziah is almost 9 months old, and I still feed her a bottle before her breakfast, but the rest of the time it's solids beforehand!! With breakfast, she wakes anywhere between 7 and 7.30a where she has her first 180ml bottle, then we wait approximately an hour (she goes for a walk with my DF to drop the others at school) before offering her breakfast and she hasn't refused it yet -------------  
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Posted By: sally belly
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 8:37am
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My Plunket nurse told me last week that you can give solids first when they're eating meat & lots of green veges. I try to wait 45-60 mins before giving milk & so far he's always eaten everything offered.
Hope your baby recovers well butefulbaby. Not much fun for all involved. -------------
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 8:53am
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Spencer was having 5 bottles when we made the switch, he dropped the mid morning one himself (started napping straight through when he would have had it) and then I got rid of his afternoon one when he started messing about with eating his tea (about 10 months I think).
He still has 3 bottles now and he still has a bottle first thing in the morning but has a good sized breakfast so haven't worried about swapping that one around.. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 9:32am
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When we switched Tom around (or when Tom switched himself) he dropped his first feed and went straight to solids for breaky. We have been doing breaky then about an hour and half later milk then bed, lunch then hour and half later milk then bed, dinner, bath, milk, bed. So 3 bottles. He seems happy.
My Karitane Nurse said that from 8-9 months on you are really only giving them milk for calcium....not nutrition as you were befroe. Most of their nutrition is coming from their solids now. |
Posted By: WRXnKids
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 9:49am
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I was told i had to drop josh's bottle feeds down to 4 as he was having about 7 a day and now i have him down to 5 the only way i could do it was to substitute bottle feeds for solids and water to drink have started to give him a 3rd solid feed a day now so here's hoping that will help drop one more bottle. I know he is a bit young to switch from milk then solids but the plunket nurse didnt offer any advice as to how i was suppose to get him to drop the extra feeds so this is the only way i could think of that worked -------------   
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Posted By: kabe
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 9:57am
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At about 8 months I weaned E from bfeeding and she went down to 4 f.feeds. Now has 2-3 bottles a day. As she is not a big milk drinker, we've continued to give milk first, as she won't drink it after solids. We give soilds an hour after she drinks, apart from at dinner time, when we offer milk afterwards (which she never takes).
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Posted By: mrshouse
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 10:58am
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i used to be so confused with the eating thing too cus Ane wouldnt eat after her milk- but she would eat solids on its own........so everything got out of order and would conduse me.and its not until my SIL was looking after her that she told me that she gives her milk first but only lets her drink half and then gives her the solids and then she can finish off with her left over milk.
Ane was gettin more full so her bottles did drop.........but i say just go with however your baby will take it............ ------------- http://www.baby-gaga.com/"> 
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