We are currently giving DD 1 meal a day at dinner time. When did you start giving 2 meals a day and which meal did you start giving it? I'm thinking lunchtime because she takes her long nap right after and it's easier for me to prepare her something then.
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We did lunch first, then added breakfast about a month in. Dinners are hardest because by the time I get home from work, it's almost her bedtime do we left those for last. We introduced solids at 6 months, a second meal around 7-7.5 months, and consistently started giving 3 meals a little before. 9 months.
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We started with breakfast at 6 months and then around 7-8 months we did lunch
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We did dinner, then breakfast. Then lunch. We started right before 6 months an buy 8 months she was on 3 meals.
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We started with lunch at 5 months and then added breakfast at 6 months.
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We tried to do dinner first, but Xander's naps at daycare were crap, so we ended up really starting with lunch. Then we added breakfast around 8 months and dinner around 9 months.
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We started with dinner at 7 months, and now at 9 months we have added lunch. Breakfast is too hard because he still goes down 2 hours after waking up!
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Thanks for all the replies!
@Tanjowen: that's what I'm struggling with too. She only stays awake for 2 hours at a time, except before bed which is why we have started with dinner. I tried breakfast this morning and she had no interest, but maybe I'll try something different tomorrow.
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Breakfast and dinner and started probably at 5.5 months and did lunch maybe 6-7 months.
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@abbydabbydoodlebug: Yeah, I'm still puzzled as to how to do the 3 meals a day until he starts really stretching the mornings out. So far, he wakes up around 7:30 a.m. and eats and we try to do breakfast together around 8:15ish, but like your LO, he doesn't show much interest. I just stick him in his chair and keep at it to get him used to the idea and let him play with the food
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@Tanjowen: DS is 10m and takes his morning nap 2 hours after waking up, and we do 3 meals a day. On the weekends those first 2 hours go by really quickly. Once he wakes up we immediately do bottle, typically at 7ish. It takes him about 20-30 minutes then we go down stairs and he plays a bit and then do breakfast around 8/8:30, usually a yogurt. More playtime and then at 9 we go up for naptime.
As for the rest of the day we do 2nd bottle at 11, lunch at 12/12:30, 3rd bottle at 3, dinner at 5:30/6 and no evening bottle, just a sippy w/formula at dinner. I'm very much looking forward to consolidating the rest of his bottles with meals since he's eating about every 2 hours.
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