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What are you offering for solids? Are you offering cow's milk instead of bottles?

@pregnantbee: If he's not eating large qualities of solids, he might truly be hungry. I think most ppl offer cow's milk or another product in lieu of breastmilk for meals.

why are you spacing out the bottles if you still have the same amount of milk to give?

Does he eat all of the food you send to daycare? Does he eat well for you on the weekends? How often does he eat solids?

I'm weaning, as well. Here is our current schedule:
6am: nurse
6:15am (we leave the house at 6:40): banana and sippy of water
8am: breakfast of 3oz yogurt + waffles or one scrambled egg and 3oz applesauce. Sippy of milk (1/2 bm, 1/2 wm).
11:30am: lunch of peas, pork, pasta salad and orange slices. Sippy of milk.
2:30pm: Snack of cheese stick + fruit of some type. Sippy of milk
5pm: Nurse
5:30pm: Dinner of protein and veggie, sometime carb. Sippy of water or milk
6:30pm: Nurse

Daycare offers her water throughout the day and she gets just one sippy of 8oz of milk at daycare. She won't drink more than that. We cut out bottles this week b/c she refused them last week when she was sick. Before she got sick, I started mixing the bm in the bottles with whole milk and had just started sending one sippy and two bottles (she used to get three bottles). The plan was for this week to go to 1 bottle and the week after to no bottles.

Maybe he's just not filling up on solids and needs the extra milk still?

@pregnantbee: I don't think spacing bottles is a flawed logic! But if you can't ingest more than x oz in one sitting then he's not consuming as much. I mean generally speaking the theory is they will eat more solids to compensate for it.

I've been gradually dropping my pumping session due to supply issues. And stopped last Monday.
Been mixing cow's milk with formula slowly. Finally onto 1oz formula/4 oz cow's milk. I think by next wee we will start doing some bottles of just cow's milk. When she's on all cow's milk we will change to sippy. Then eventually transition to just offering cow's milk at meal and snack times.

So this is her schedule:
5:30a/6a nurse
6:45a ish breakfast this morning was a chinese breakfast pastry
9am ish 5oz bottle then snack
11:30a ish lunch today is pan seared pork loin, pineapples, edamame, rice pilaf
12:30p ish 5 oz bottle
2:30pm afternoon snack today is a 4oz pouch
3:30/4:00 5 oz bottle
6:00pm dinner today will be shrimp pasta
7:00 nurse for bedtime

She's 13 months and I'm comfortable doing this bc her eating has almost doubled!

@pregnantbee: some items I have sent to daycare:

Breakfast: yogurt, applesauce, banana, waffles, pancakes, eggs (scrambled or hard boiled), sausage with eggs. cheesy eggs. I usually send one protein and one fruit. Sometimes I will send carbs with a fruit or yogurt (or fruit yogurt - I'll put frozen blueberries in her yogurt).

Lunch: Leftovers! Today and yesterday it was pasta salad (chicken, hard boiled eggs, pasta, celery, mayo and I cut everything up super small), frozen peas and mandarin oranges (from those single serve cups). M LOVES pork tenderloin so I make one of those a week and send pork twice a week. With the pork I'll send a veggie, fruit and sometimes a carb (if she didn't get one for breakfast) like goldfish or a ritz cracker or two. Oh! Have you done beans? M loves black beans. She will scarf those down like it's her job. On a bean day I'll send black beans, broccoli, carrots and rice for lunch.

Snack: Cheese stick, applesauce, puree pack, hard boiled egg, fruit (orange slices or blueberries).

I like @winniebee's idea of spacing bottles and food, too. At least a half hour in between. Maybe try offering food first, then bottle so he gets used to getting calories from food instead of so much from milk?

@pregnantbee: Hugs. It is SO confusing. I'm just taking it one day at a time and doing what "feels" right. Once again I'd like to ask, "where is my instruction manual??"

substituting solids for breast milk is the best way. So prior to 12 months you (or if you want to continue bf'ing) you would give breast milk then solids. As you start to want to wean, you want to try offering solids with water, and then breast milk. Basically subbing in the other items for bm. You never have to offer cow's milk if you don't want to, but you shouldn't until a year at the very least. Does that make sense?

@pregnantbee: My baby is one!!! He came in May and I had already picked this name lol. It's crazy how fast it has gone.

I'm in the process of becoming an LC