BFers - feeding schedule ?

[nilex0102]

How many times are your kiddos nursing and how much solids are they eating?
I would say on average (and this has been rare lately between being sick and teething) Alex nurses 5-6 times and eats 3 "meals ". We do a mix of BLW and baby food.

[Deleted]

Laney nurses every 2-3 hours (even over night) and I offer food 2-3 times a day but she isn't eating much. I often throw away jar/packets of purées because they go bad before she finishes them. I offer "real" food too and she eats a few bites then is done.

[gmoneymommy]

He's nursing every 3-4 hours during the day, and was only eating every 4-5 at night, until just recently when he started wanting to nurse a lot during the night again. He doesn't eat for very long during the day most of the time though. I have been giving him two meals during the day. He eats 1/3-1/2 a pouch of food in one sitting is all.

[Deleted]

This is a typical day for us.
Nurse sometime between 2- 3 am
Nurse sometime between 5-6am
Solids around 8am
Nurse around 9:30am
Solids around 12pm
Nurse around 3pm
Solids snack around 4pm
Solids at 5:30pm
Nurse at 7pm

[devotchka]

Jan 7, 2013 0:37:36 GMT -5 nilex0102 said:

How many times are your kiddos nursing and how much solids are they eating?
I would say on average (and this has been rare lately between being sick and teething) Alex nurses 5-6 times and eats 3 "meals ". We do a mix of BLW and baby food.

We do a mix of BLW and mostly homemade purees too, and he eats about 2 meals a day - breakfast and dinner usually, sometimes breakfast and lunch. I nurse him about 6-7 times during the day, and several times at night (I would say 2-4 times) - but some of the day and night nursing is comfort nursing :/

[Deleted]

Same as you nilex. 3 meals (whatever we/DS1 eats, mushed up sometimes depending on what it is) plus BF about 5 times. He's been on the boob a lot lately, even if it's just for a short time. He's teething so I think that's a factor. He's also added a feed around 4am-5am which sucks donkey balls as he was STTN since about 4 months. Sometimes he wakes during the night (I can usually resettle without BF) so I think that must be developmental or teeth. I'm ready for it to be over TYVM.

He eats a lot of solids, almost as much as my 3 year old.

Your kids look so alike! Gorgeous. I think that every time I see your sig pic.

[TrudyCampbell]

Our day looks something like this:

Nurse 6am
4 oz solids 7:30am
Nurse 9am
Nurse 11am (after nap)
4 oz solids 12:30pm
Nurse 2pm
Nurse 4pm
2 oz solids 5pm
Nurse 6:30pm

She doesn't eat in the MOTN.

[laurack]

every 3 hours or so she nurses. At daycare she takes a bottle about every 3 hours too, usually 3-4oz only. I feel like she should be spacing feeds out more by now but on the other hand I don't really care.

She eats food 3x a day I would say, combination of puree and finger foods. Yesterday looked like this-

330am boob
630am boob
8am oatmeal with applesauce (she just shared mine)
930am boob
11am kiwi
12pm chicken noodle soup, followed pretty soon by boob
3pm boob
6pm boob
730pm homemade pizza and chunks of roasted butternut squash
830pm boob

She usually eats 1-2x in the MOTN I try to discourage more than that.

[Deleted]

I gave up on daytime nursing...I pump for daytime bottles. Tommys is way to distracted to take a feeding at breast during the day and my supply was tanking over the weekends because of it.

He nurses MOTN, AM, 2 bottles at daycare, Bedtime. He eats 3 meals a day now as well and gets a sippy of water with the meals (BM if I have extra). I try to follow the same schedule on the weekends.

His meals are mostly finger foods now. I make sure he gets one meal of baby cereal each day for the extra iron.

[christidee]

Jan 7, 2013 5:42:40 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

Our day looks something like this:

Nurse 6am
4 oz solids 7:30am
Nurse 9am
Nurse 11am (after nap)
4 oz solids 12:30pm
Nurse 2pm
Nurse 4pm
2 oz solids 5pm
Nurse 6:30pm

She doesn't eat in the MOTN.

We are very similar to this. Times might be off by about a half hour give or take though.

[nls0412]

He nurses usually 4 maybe 5 times a day and typically goes about 4 hours between each nursing session. He gets 3 solid meals a day as well. Mostly BLW with some puree's here and there.

[formerlyllizzyb]

Sometimes DS wakes for an early morning feed (I nurse for wakings after 4 a.m.) sometimes not. This morning he didn't wake until 6, but the day before he woke to eat at 5. He typically nurses every three hours for an average of 5-6 times in a 24 hour period. I offer him solids three times a day at my meals.