for the early birds..

My lo's go to bed around 6-6:30, they have their afternoon bottle around 2 or so before their nap,
buy IF they take a long nap and give them cereal/fruit any later than 4:30 my ds won't take his night
time bottle or only take about 4 oz-(he wouldn't take a bottle instead of the ceral that is why I started given him solids instead"

should I just skip this 3rd meal?- give them just fruit inseat (dd take a bottle anytime :lol: )

 

Hmmm, we have always eaten dinner at 6:00 with bedtime at 8:00 so I'm not sure. But I would say that on those days I would probably cut back on the evening meal so that he would take his bottle, at least for a few more months.

 

I have early birds too, could you do dinner at 4 and then a bottle before bed? My girls had dinner at 4 for a long time.

 

I like Aimee's idea!

We do bedtime between 6:30-7, so we do dinner between 4:30-5 and just offer a bottle before bed. Sometimes we will even dreamfeed at like 7:30 or so if they dont take much of their bottle.

A friend of mine did it like this...
nap
bottle
1hr later dinner
get ready for bed (bath,ect)
then offer another bottle-sometimes they took it all sometimes only a few oz

 

We too have early birds. We try to give them thier last solid meal around 4 so that they will have room for that last bottle before bed. If that doesnt work then depending on size I would cut back on solids so that you can ensure they are getting all the formula/BM they need.

 

Mine go to bed between 5:30 and 6. We do the following:

Get up from nap between 2 and 3
Cup (don't always finish)
Dinner between 4:30 and 5, and give them another cup with their meal.
After dinner, bring cup with them to their room to finish as we prep them for bed. Typically they both finish their bottles before bed.

 

We have a 6:15/6:30 bedtime and really big eaters

1:30/2 pm wake up from nap
2:30 bottle (7oz)
5 pm solids (usually chicken/fruit or chicken/sweet potato)
bath/stories/wonder pets :blush:
6:00/6:15 bottle (8-9oz)
6:30 bedtime