10.5 month old BFing schedule? (long)

[slipsey]

My DS (10.5 months) has never been a major bottle drinker.  At this point, I nurse him at 8am and 10am, then I go to work and he is with my nanny.  He is offered a bottle at 1pm which is almost always refused, and then at 3pm, where he drinks between 1-4oz.  He is also eating overnight at around 4am.  Basically his schedule is:

4am- nurse
8am- nurse
9am- breakfast
10am- nurse
Noon-Lunch
1pm- bottle (offered, but usually refused)
3pm-bottle (drinks 1-4oz)
6pm- dinner
7:30- nurse before bed

I really want to get rid of the 4am session and I am tempted to stop offering the 1pm bottle.  I am pumping only once a day at work, which is fine, because he barely drinks any milk while I am away anyway.  He is a peanut, probably around 17 lbs, but he eats solids nicely and nurses well when we are together.  My question is does this seem normal?  My pedi had mentioned that around 10 months he should be down to 3 milk feedings a day, should I push him towards that?  I would love to hear others experiences...

sorry this got so long!

[Deleted]

I don't think most 10 month olds are down to 3 milk feeds a day. I think most people wait to wean until at least closer to 1, and cutting out milk feeds is weaning.

I'd leave the offer of the 1 pm if you're night weaning and see if he's hungrier by day. The calories need to get in there at some point in the day.

I think my 9 month old nurses about 6 x in 24 hours. Maybe more.

[bunch]

About 5 times a day (7,10,1,3,5,7). She was getting up between 4-5 too, but I just didn't go in once and she hasn't woken again.

Judging from my dd2's interest, we're moving in a direction where I'll just be nursing before her naps and bed sooner then later. She's taken to unlatching and signing eat other times.

[countthestars]

DD is formula fed now but she is still eating -

4oz overnight (trying to drop this)
2-3oz in the morning
~10oz at daycare split between 2 or 3 bottles
~6oz before bed

She has 3 meals and sometimes a quick snack of fruit in the afternoon.

I hadn't heard about the 3 bottles/nurses per day, though it makes sense that DD is not eating much per bottle during the day now.

[ssmjlm]

At 10m E was STTN, so her schedule was:

6:30-nurse
9am-small breakfast/snack (daycare did them together)
9:30-bottle
12-lunch
12:30 bottle
2pm-snack
3:30 bottle
5:30-dinner
6:30/7-bedtime nurse

[dcn]

Ds was nursing 6-7 times a day at that age, including one around 4-5 am, though we were working on dropping that one. Three seems really low to me and not typical from talking with other moms.

[mandapanda18]

DS is the same age, his schedule,is:

6:30 nurse
8:30 breakfast at daycare
10:30 6 oz bm bottle
12:30 lunch
2:30 6 oz bm bottle
5:30 nurse (shorter duration though, more like an "I missed you while you were at work mom"
6:30 dinner
8:00 nurse and then to bed

[halfpint]

B is still getting 7-8 nursing sessions a day. This is in addition to three solid meals. I can't imagine being down to three in another 6 weeks.

[iheartbanjos]

DD2 is 9.5 months and has milk 5x a day (whether nursing or bottle. I travel for work often, so she has no choice but to take a bottle.)

She eats at 6:30/7am, 9:30/10am, 1pm, 4pm, 6:30/7pm. She takes 4.5oz each feeding.

[slipsey]

Thanks for the replies. I am definitely ready to stop pumping at work - but will continue until a year. At that point do I replace the breast milk bottles with straw cups of WCM? I am happy to nurse when we are together indefinitely.

[dcn]

I started replacing nursing with a sippy of wcm around a year, just one session a week or so. I nursed am and pm until 15 months.

[meltoine]

My kid is the same age and still have 5-6 milk feeds a day. 3 seems like too few. I say KOKO.

[ladygrey]

DD is the same age and she's still nursing 5-6 times a day. Only 3 milk feedings doesn't sound like very much to me.

[badgergrl]

Before I weaned (at 2) we never got down to three milk feeds a day when I was home. When I was working it was morning, firt thing after work, then bedtime but I would never expect that out of a 10 month old.

[Deleted]

3 sessions doesn't seem like enough at 10 months. At that age this was J's schedule
6 nurse
7 breakfast
8 3oz bottle
10 2.5oz bottle
1130/12 nurse
1 lunch
230 3oz bottle
4 nurse after work
6 dinner
7 nurse before bed
At least 1-2 nursing overnight. We were biedsharing so I don't exactly how often he was eating versus comfort nursing at night but he was definitely eating at least once. Some of the sessions were definitely short, like the lunch one and after daycare.

He did start skipping the 10 bottle at some point so that may have been gone by 10 mos.