Feeding schedule with breastmilk and solids? What is yours?

[icegurl470]

My baby will be 6 months next month and I will be introducing solids starting with rice cereal. She has been exclusively nursed or given expressed breast milk. I plan on continuing to breast feed until at least one year. How often should I give her solids? I planned on starting with just 1/day around dinner time to help keep her full through the night, but where should I go from there? What do you ladies do? Thanks!

 

[misspriss]

My baby will be 6 months next month and I will be introducing solids starting with rice cereal. She has been exclusively nursed or given expressed breast milk. I plan on continuing to breast feed until at least one year. How often should I give her solids? I planned on starting with just 1/day around dinner time to help keep her full through the night, but where should I go from there? What do you ladies do? Thanks!

Well I do BLW, so it's totally different. I still BF her like I always did, for naps and night and when she appears hungry/grumpy (although she is at the distractable stage, so it's JUST at nap and stuff usually) and give her food in her high chair when I sit my older child down in the high chair to eat, so for breakfast lunch and dinner.

Breastmilk will keep her more full than food at this point, more calorie dense. I plan to BF for much longer, so I'm not that eager to get mine all the way onto food.

Its just kind of a feel it out as you go kind of thing!

 

[Amalee]

I also did BLW with my son when he was about 6 months old. We started with just giving him something once a day, and gradually increased it as he became more interested.

 

[noon_child]

I started giving her bits of my food when I ate, so we started with breakfast (which was usually about 1.5 hrs after she had her morning bf) with me giving her pieces of banana and tastes of my porridge/oatmeal. When we started more seriously (at first I was just seeing what she'd do with food but it soon became clear she was ready to eat) I tried to time it so that we ate around an hour after she had finished her bf, as then she wasn't too full but not too hungry either - she had time therefore to explore, practice and experiment without getting frustrated.