https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:22:08 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1297395 Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:22:02 +0000 katsupgirl 1297395@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 14.5 months and nurses quite a lot. She gets about 4-6 ounces a day while I'm at work and nurses frequently when I get home. She eats fruit and yogurt mostly during the day. Dinner is more varied. I'm working on upping her solids in frequency and variety. Not too worried about intake. Some days she gets nothing but BM. She's growing so. She's not a fan of cow's milk yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1296435 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:45:37 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1296435@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For my oldest I would say around 15-18 months was a turning point for us. At 10 months he nursed 4 times a day (morning, bedtime and before or after two naps) and started eating 3 meals a day of solids. At 14 we dropped a session when we went down to one nap and sometime after that we dropped the morning session. That's when solids became the majority I think. FWIW at 2.5 he is still nursing those 2 times a day. Little bro seems to be on a similar trajectory. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1296415 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 11:24:02 +0000 brownie 1296415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son ate solids like they were going out of business (2 hot dogs in a sitting) but, he didn't really drop any nursing sessions until I weaned him at 2 years old. Since then he has actually eaten less solids but gained more weight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1296383 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:39:24 +0000 Mrs. Twine 1296383@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think as long as they are eating a variety of foods and don't seem to have any oral, sensory, or motor problems related to eating, there is no need to do anything active to change the BM/solids ratio (unless you just want to for some other reason). Both of my girls were still nursing fairly frequently during the day around age two (Ellie moreso than Lorelei). Ellie tapered off around age three, but went through a few spurts where she seemed to nurse all the time again for a few days and then go back to infrequent nursing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1296371 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:33:57 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 1296371@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>F is 15 months and I feel like he eats a fair amount of solids and would be alright if I dried up tomorrow. We nurse in the evenings &amp; before bed &amp; in the middle of the night - probably 4x total. On the weekends, he might ask for another nursing session but he does like solids. I think it's because of daycare: he can't nurse during the day &amp; I don't send milk, so he's learned to fill up on solids/cow's milk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1296224 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 04:19:20 +0000 Kemma 1296224@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@shopaholic: @JerricaBenton: @MrsMccarthy: I know that Kellymom recommends 75-25 milk to solids at twelve months, 50-50 at 18 months and 25-75 at two years but it's kinda hard to know what that actually looks like on real terms!</p> <p>A seems to love the social and play aspect of food (she's trying to master utensils at the moment!) and she'll eats peas like nobody's business but she certainly wouldn't survive without breastmilk... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1296218 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 03:37:36 +0000 MrsMccarthy 1296218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Subscribing because I too have a boob monster and he eats solids but I would be pretty nervous if he had only that to rely on because he really isn't that interested in cows milk or eating too many solids. I have to work hard to get him to eat solid meals sometimes. He always wants to nurse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1296217 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 03:33:37 +0000 JerricaBenton 1296217@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Interested to hear other's experience with this too. LO is 10 mos but I can see this happening to us she nurses 8 times a day and while she seems to enjoy solids, it just doesn't seem like she's hungry enough to ingest a large amount. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1296207 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 02:33:13 +0000 shopaholic 1296207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Following because I'm interested too. LO is 9.5 months, but I can see us BF'ing past a year, and we're kind of slow on the solids... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1296205 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 02:26:30 +0000 sarac 1296205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was a concious effort on my part to reduced the amount that she nursed at about 18 months before she really started to up her solid intake. She was still getting a ton of calories from nursing at that point. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/extending-breastfeeding-milk-v-solids-for-boob-obsessed-babies#post-1296204 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 02:20:44 +0000 Kemma 1296204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A question for the extended bf'ers among us!</p> <p>If your LO was a wee boob-junkie, when did the nursing to start to slow down and solids take over as the primary source of nutrition?</p> <p>Miss A is 14.5 months old and still nursing 8-10 times a day (including 1-2 MOTN sessions) and whilst she eats a wide variety of foods, she doesn't eat a huge quantity. I have no immediate plans to wean but I am wondering if there is going to come a time when I need to start reducing the amount of breastmilk she received in order to up her solids. We have no concerns with regards to her weight or development so I'm asking more out of curiosity than anything :-)</p> <p>Thanks in advance! </p>