Breast feeding/solids Ratio for 8 m old
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Topic: Breast feeding/solids Ratio for 8 m old
Posted By: BayGirl
Subject: Breast feeding/solids Ratio for 8 m old
Date Posted: 18 March 2011 at 11:09am
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So i am wondering how much breast milk and solids my DD should be having. She has been eating solids since approx 5months old and goes through phases of loving it and phases of not being that into it.
Our night sleeping is getting worse not better and wonder if it's time to hold off the constant feeding habbits we are in? Our Day goes: 4-5am sleepy feed in bed 8am wake up Breast feed Breakfast 8.30am Nap 10.30am (Sometimes a B.feed before nap) Wakes 12 ish B Breast feed Lunch 12.30-1pm ish 2.30 breast feed (snack) 3ish Nap 4ish Wake and feed 5.30 dinner 6 ish Shower with mum 6.30 into sleeping bag, story books and cuddles Breast Feed 7pm ish Bed for the night. 11pm _ Sleepy feed (in bed with Me) -----Try to put her down but she wakes up everytime i try so usually ends up in bed with us all night 1.30--- Sleepy feed 4.30 ish (sometimes 5.30ish) Big sleepy feed 8 am wake up Breast feed etc... So yes we are still feeding alot with lots of snack type feeds. So my questionS: 1)should i be holding off some of these little feeds (particularly through the night)? 2)Should i get strict and only offer 4-5 feeds a day? 3)I know at this age (8-9 months) you are supposed to start offering Solids first and more food snacks during the day and just top up with Breast milk.???? Any thoughts and when and how to start this??? 4)It's seems too soon to me to cut down feeds but when i hear about other mums being down to 4 feeds a day i think that we are at about 8-10 feeds (but some are snacks nibbles). 5) how much solids should i offer? Aurora wants to constantly snack on solids but won;t take alot in one go but if she sees anyone else with food she demands some. I think i need to really try to get her to eat alot more at each meal? 6) What is the best way to start good eating habbits. Is it bad to offer lots of little snacks (either breast feeds or fresh fruit/crackers etc)to a baby? Will it effect how much they eat at meal times?? Or if not eating alot is it better to offer lots of little snacks? Any thoughts -------------   
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Posted By: SpecialK
Date Posted: 18 March 2011 at 1:23pm
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With DS, I swore by the routine the Plunket family centre gave us. It took us about a week to establish, because we cut down to two naps and started solids before milk at the same time. It went like this:
6am BF/Bottle 7-7.30am Breakfast 8.30-9am Nap 11.30am Lunch 12.00-12.30 Bf/bottle 1-1.30pm Nap 3.00pm Wake is still asleep. Afternoon tea 4.45-5.00pm dinner 6.00pm bath 6.30pm BF/Bottle 7-7.30pm bed From my experience, offering too much milk (I was FF by 8 months) and snacks in between meals affected hugely how much he ate at each meal. We cut down the milk from 240mL at each feed to 150mL and started offering smaller snacks. At around 8-10 months he would probably eat about half a cup of veggie/meat casserole plus custard/yogurt plus fruit. Breakfast was baby muesli/porridge/weetbix, again about half a cup and fruit. The other thing with milk is that they need to have a certain amount a day - about 600mL I think (someone may correct me on this)so I guess with BF you don't know how much she is taking at each feed...? With her wanting other people's food, I think that's pretty common - my DS is almost two and he still does it - the best way around it I found is to eat with him and just give him what I am eating rather than having 'baby' food, perhaps mushed up for an 8 month old. It worked well, now he eats pretty much anything and has sophisticated tastes for a tot. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Kalimirella
Date Posted: 18 March 2011 at 1:54pm
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I found that I was giving K about 5-6 BF a day at that age, but she ate plenty too.
Yup on the always wanting other peoples food!! Don't expect that to stop anytime soon, mine is still like a little puppy begging bits off everyone. It is easiest to give your baby the food you are eating just appropriately finger foodish or mushed, you will know how good your baby is at chewing and swallowing. My question would be, are the night foods and snacking bothering you overly much? And would you rather she sleep in her own bed? Cause if the night feeds aren't bothering you, then maybe leave them, because the 2 seem to go together and would be a bit harder to change. For daytimes (and this is just my opinion) I would try sticking to a morning BF, before or after brekkie whichever suits, a solid snack shortly before nap (and remember its 600mls of fluid, you can offer water,sw) a midday/late morning BF probably after nap and before or after lunch, then a mid afternoon snack, offer water and then BF if she wants it, and then another after tea and before bed. So thats 4-5 in the daytime and given you don't want to change nights another 1-2 there so closer to the recommended. From there you can slowly wean down to whatever you are comfortable with and once you have a daytime pattern that suits the both of you, you can work on nights if you want to change (you may not if it works for you :D) ------------- Kiara is 3 and Teagan is 2, now we're expecting our long awaited 3rd! http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: BayGirl
Date Posted: 18 March 2011 at 2:41pm
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Kamirella Thanks for that advice. I really love co-sleeping with my little girl and i know that her waking to feed if she is in the cot through night is habbit and when she's in bed with us her waking is more frequent.
I think i need to sort my nights before the days (for the days to take thier own pattern too). I am studying from home and spend nights studying 7-11 and she always wakes the most between 11pm and 5am so i am not getting much sleep. Think i need to get her sleeping in her own cot and not offering breast everytime she wakes!!! It's a hard call but i think she'll have a much happier mummy and her routines of feeds my become a bit more routined if she is not feeding all night!!!!!!! -------------
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