solids then milk

DS is FF. I just noticed that the plunket guidelines say that from 8mths he should have solids then milk.
He's on 4 bottles a day and he's already moved his before dinner bottle to after dinner (doesn't speak but somehow gets his own way). Breakfast and lunch he has his bottle first, and the 3pm(ish) feed doesn't come with food at all ATM.
I can see that I'll be introducing a snack at 3, and that can be before his bottle.

As for breakfast & lunch we've got a rhythm going and I can't imagine doing it the other way round.

He doesn't feed overnight at all, so his morning bottle is much appreciated, then we have toast together. I think if I faffed with breakfast before feeding him I'd have a riot on my hands.

He's really hungry by 11 so has a bottle, then I get solids ready and we have lunch together. He's just about to start daycare and they have lunch at 11:30 too, so I don't really want to mess that up and I don't think he could last till 11:30 without the bottle at 11.

How did other mum's switch the milk /solids order?

Cory still has his bottles before his solids and im not about to change it. His routine works great for him and he just wouldnt last if we put his food first.

His feeding routine is 1/2 lea way is had here too

7am bottle
8am piece of toast and some fruit
11am bottle
12pm lunch
3pm bottle
4.30ish dinner
6.30ish bottle and bed

if it was me i wouldnt stress...if hes happy doing what hes doing then just leave it as it is.

We just adjusted it slowly. Started with having dinner at 5-5.30pm and then a feed at bedtime 6.30-7pm. Then started giving him lunch first a couple of weeks later, so he has lunch about 11.30-12pm and a feed before he goes down for his afternoon sleep. He still has a BF first thing in the morning and then breakfast around 8am, I don't see that changing any time soon as DH gets him up when he gets up for work and brings him to me in bed to feed so I don't have to get up straight away! and about a month ago he dropped his mid afternoon feed in favour of a snack and water.

Im going through the exact same dilemma at the moment.
Daniel is 10 months old and still mostly having formula bottles before solids. He never finishes a full 200ml bottle though so he's probably only getting 600mls per day despite being offered 800mls.

Currently he has:

6am bottle
7am breakfast
10am bottle
10:30am morning tea
11:30am lunch
2pm bottle
5pm dinner
6pm bottle then bed.

I don't know how to go about changing any of this as he's so structured in his routine. Maybe I could start by cutting out his 2pm bottle and giving him a more substantial afternoon tea & water? Is this how its done?

Just an update from me...

I changed things a bit today to give Daniel his bottles after solids and also to cut down to 3 bottles instead of 4.

I kept his morning bottle first though as he's always really keen for that first thing at 6am.

So today he had:

6am bottle
7am breakfast
10am morning tea
11am lunch
12noon bottle
2:30pm afternoon tea
5pm dinner
6pm bottle

It went pretty well so I'll stick to this for a while and then eventually swap his breakfast to before bottle next.

Helpful thread to see what everyone else is doing.