Feeding times - please help

[Lucy]

Hi everyone

Weaning is going quite well at the moment, Olivia is trying lots of tastes and textures and eats quite a varied diet. She doesn't like alot of things I give her but I'll just keep trying her with them.

However, at the moment it seems to take forever to feed her! It could be 30 mins, 45 mins sometimes. I don't want to rush her but I think she loses interest and it's me perservering that's taking the time. I'm going to stop giving her food when she shows she's lost interest because the other problem I'm having is that she seems to have cut down on milk during the day but wants to make up for it at night. After 2am she wakes every 2 hours and I feel like I have a newborn again.

So, what time do you give solids and how long does it a sitting take? Do you still offer half the bottle/boob before and after the solids or was that just for the early days of weaning?

Sorry, I know this has been done a lot of times before, just hoping that seeing other people's "schedules/routines" will help me sort out a good habit with Olivia and hopefully get a better nights sleep.

Thanks

Lucy

 

[weestar21]

Hi hun

Colby is on 3 solids plus 5 7oz bottles per day
She wakes at 7.30 am and has 7oz bottle

at 10.30 am she has breakfast porridge or something like that just depends. follows by 7oz bottle ( takes about 10 mins for her to have her porisge and prob abdout 10-15 mins for her to take her bottle)


1.30pm she would have her lunch either fruit and youghurt or chocolate pudding or something plus her 7oz bottle (takes about the same amount of time)


4.30pm she has her dinner something savoury but shes took a loving passion to baked apple and roast pork so shes been having this for the past 2 days and her 7oz bottle.

7.30pm she has only a 7oz bottle and that is her though till teh next morning.


ive tried giving her water and juice but she just wont take it unless its off a spoon so i do this maybe an hour between feeds sit with a tea spoon for about 30 mins each time just so shes gettinmg some other fluids other than milk all the time.


sorry if this is no help hun
good luck
xxxxxxxxxx

 

[hels]

Hi Hun....Charlie is a baby dustbin!! She eats loads!

7am 4oz bottle

8.30am Cereal (mad up with 3oz formula) and half a bannana.

12.00 1 slice of bread with pesto and cream cheese, 4 cubes of fruit
(ie frozen rasps, with pears, apricots and mandrins) mixed with
baby cereal to thicken. 2 rice cakes. yoghurt.

15.00 5/6oz bottle

17.30 3 dessert spoons of fish pie, (or lasagne, or cauli cheese or
roast dinner etc )with 3 spoons of veg. Custard, or jelly or
rice pudding etc.

19.00 5oz bottle


How about giving Olivia her finger food first, then 'top her up' with spoon feed? Charlie can take a good 30 to 40 mins to eat her lunch and dinner.
Hope to catch up on MSN soon xxx