6 month old feed schedule

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babygrrl84 Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 28 March 2009 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote babygrrl84 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: 6 month old feed schedule Posted: 03 December 2009 at 10:24am
	Hi guys, I'm just wondering what sort of feed & sleep schedule your babies are on (or were on) at 6 months old? My daughter is 6 months old and I would like to get her onto some sort of routine. She has been mainly sleeping thru the nite (recently she has been teething so was waking but has just gone back to sleeping thru), and has been breastfed every 4 hours, plus solids at lunchtime - today I've added breakfast solids too.. I've been searching the internet and thinking maybe she should be on 3 feeds (breast) a day, plus a topup before bed, and 2-3 feeds of solids a day? And she normally has 2 naps (1-2 hours) during the day. Does this sound right? Thanks Edited by babygrrl84


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Kazzle Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 01 January 1900 Location: Porirua Points: 3830	Post Options Post Reply Quote Kazzle Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 December 2009 at 10:58am
	Cory is feeding 3 hourly (120ml bottles) plus solids for breakfast and dinner


Bizzy Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 01 January 1900 Location: New Zealand Points: 10974	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bizzy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 December 2009 at 1:01pm
	i would say dont mess with what is already working... my only "rule" was solids an hour after a bf. and yeah 4 bf's a day sounds good to me!


CarrieMum Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 08 May 2008 Location: Hamilton Points: 1025	Post Options Post Reply Quote CarrieMum Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 December 2009 at 11:13am
	Daniel is having 4 hourly bottle feeds (250mls) during the day at 6am, 10am, 2pm and 6pm. I give him breakfast (prunes or pears) not long after his morning bottle and then dinner (veges) late afternoon. He generally sleeps 6pm - 5am with naps at 7:30am-9:30am, 12-2pm and 4-4:30pm.


Mrs_B Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 08 April 2008 Location: Hamilton Points: 1142	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mrs_B Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 December 2009 at 1:46pm
	This has been our routine since Corban was 6mths old works well for us. He isn't sleeping through the night but I stopped feeding him during the night when he was just over 6mths as I felt it was more habit than hunger. 7am BF 7.45am Breakfast 9am Sleep 1-2hrs 11am BF 11.45am Lunch 1pm Sleep 1- 2hrs 3pm BF 4.15ish Quick nap 1/2 - 3/4hr 5pm Dinner 6pm-7pm Bath/BF/Story/Bed 10pm BF


Nikki Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 02 October 2003 Location: West Auckland Points: 2279	Post Options Post Reply Quote Nikki Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 December 2009 at 10:53pm
	At 6 months Jake went down to 4 milk feeds (from 5 or 6) and up to 3 solids meals (from 2) and down to 2 naps (from 3). So it was roughly like this: 6.30/7am BF 8am breakie 9-10.30am nap 11am BF 12ish lunch 1-3pm nap 3/3.30pm BF 5pm dinner 6.45pm bottle. Morgan is a bit more random and not quite 6 months, but she has 2 solids (lunch and dinner, will add breakie soon though) and 5-6 milk feeds (the last one is a bottle, the rest BF), and is still having 3 naps but is a bit of a cat-napper so may not go down to two for a while. What you're doing sounds ideal, but I'd increase to 3 solids soon after the second meal is established.
	DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs)

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