How many bottles/nursing each day?

Just trying to figure out a new schedule- Thanks!

 

I breastfeed Nathan 6-8 times/day.

Natalie at 8 months old was drinking 6-6 ounce bottles/day. At 10 months old, I started giving her 4-8 ounce bottles.

Far as a schedule

Wake 7am
Breakfast (cheerios or eggos or toast)Bottle 8am
Play 830-930
Nap 930-11
Lunch /bottle (usually ham/cheese or leftovers from the night before) 1130
Play 12-2
nap 2-3
bottle 4pm
dinner 5 pm
play 530-7
bath/bottle/bed 7-8

Pretty much she has a bottle at 8am, 12, 4, 8Pm.
Nathan breastfeeds before his naps/bed and usually when he wakes up.

They usually take a nap 2-2 1/2 hours after they woke up.
When they wake, they usually eat then play for a while.

 

At 8 months we were on 5 bottles and 2 solids a day. At 9 months we added in a 3rd solids meal and dropped a bottle and they started STTN.

 

We just turned 8 months (yesterday) but we have 4- 8 ounce bottles and 2-3 solids a day. (It depends on their mood and what errands we have if they get that third one right now. Usually if they do eat it, they don't take the entire last bottle.)

 

At 9 months, I offer 4/7oz bottles and 2-3 solids per day. They are on a bottle protest now though. It's so annoying!

 

My girls are nursing 5x a day and get 3 solid meals.

6-630 get up and nurse
730-8 solids
830 nap
10-1030 nurse
12 nurse then solids
1 nap
3ish nurse
430-5 solids
630-7 nurse and bed

Lunch is their smallest meal of the day thats why I nurse them beforehand. HTH

 

We're the odd ones with 3 8 oz bottles a day at 7:00, 11:00, and 7:00. They have a bit of oatmeal after their 7:00 bottle, stage 2 fruit with 11:00 bottle, a stage 2 fruit and veggie at 3:00, and dinner at 6:30 (all baby food again). We've been doing this since 6 months old with our Pedi's approval. As I've been reading stuff, I've noticed that we give fewer bottles for their age.

 

By 7 months we dropped down to 4 8oz. bottles a day. They didn't/don't always finish them though.

 

My girls have been on four 6 ounce bottles per day for a couple of months.

 

We have three 7 oz bottles at 7:30, 3:00 and 8:30. They have solids at 8:30 (breakfast), 12:00 (lunch), and 5:30 (dinner).

 

At that age, we were probably nursing at 7-8x/day or more. Around 10 mo, they were eating 2 meals (lunch & dinner) most of the time, and maybe just nibbling at some "brunch" occasionally.

 

I'm so glad you asked this as I've been curious what others are doing! My girls are only getting 3 bottles a day now ... usually it's between 18 - 22 oz of formula per day. We do bottles at 7:30 AM, 1:30 ish PM, and 6:30 PM. They're also on solids 3 times a day.

I'm a little concerned though because I feel like they're eating too many solids and not getting enough formula. I'm going to ask the pedi about it when we go for their 9 month appt later this month.

 

At 8 months we dropped (and are still at) 4 bottles (6-7 ounce for DD, 7-7.5 ounce for DS) and 3 meals a day. We are working now towards 3 bottles with 3 meals and a snack.