7 Month Old Feedings

Hi:

I have a 7 month old son and here is his feeding schedule: Chase wakes up at 6:30 AM and has 5 oz of formula and 1 4 oz. jar of fruit with rice or oat cereal.. at 10 AM he just has 6-7 oz of formula.. at 1:30 PM he has 6-8 oz of food (includes meat, veggies, and fruit) and 5 oz of formula.... 4 PM just formula-again 6-7 oz, and finally dinner which is a repeat of his 1:30 PM feeding. At his 6 month check up, his dr. indicated that he should be eating solids at this point 3x per day.

Hope this helps!

I think every baby is on his/her own feeding schedule so you shouldn't necessarily "do" what others are doing. The best advice is to ask your pediatrician.

My six month old daughter does both formula and breastfeeding. She wakes up and I try to feed her a little solids (Gerber bannanas, peaches, etc). She'll then have about 6-8 oz. of my breast milk (which has been pumped so that's why I know how much she's getting. She'll take a nap and then wake up and have a 6oz bottle of formula. This cycle continues throughout the day, totalling to about 30oz of formula/breast milk by bed time. I try and feed her solids 3 times a day but she doesn't eat much. I think it all depends on the baby...

Hi.
My daughter is bottle fed, not nursed, but the basic schedule is the same. Try to feed her around your normal eating schedule. Also offer the food before the nursing.

Ex. 7:00a - breakfast - offer a small dish of oatmeal or rice cereal with veggie or fruit. perhaps some yogurt. a little bit later nurse.

Around lunch time - offer some veggies and fruits. Perhaps some snacks. Does she situp? You could try some cheerios/gerber melts. Nurse

Around dinner time - 5:00 or so. offer more veggies/meats if she's started them. Nurse.

Bedtime - Nurse.

The goal is to get her onto a table foods feeding that matches your table food schedule. The more table food she takes in, the less she'll nurse. Also, don't force her to eat. If she starts spitting out food, or pushes it away, she'd done.

Good luck.
M.

My daughter is almost 16 months and still nurses 8-10 times a day. I feed her when she indicates that she wants to feed.

At 7 months, my daughter wasn't much into solids. Around 7.5 months she would have cereal with fruit and breastmilk for a meal and that was likely her only meal. She was nursing 10-12 times daily. By 8.5 months, she had yogurt in the morning and cereal with fruit and breastmilk for lunch. She would eat dinner with us. She liked chicken, beef etc. At 16 months, she gets 3 meals and an afternoon snack and nurses on demand.