spacing solids and bottle

**allyray231** · 01-20-2006, 08:47 AM

My DS is 7 months old. He is eating 3 meals a day. How should I space the solids and his bottle feedings? Right now he has a bottle and then solids about an hour to and hour and a half later. However today he was crying for her cereal this morning after an hour and a half.

Should it be bottle and then solids right after that? Should there be a longer gap? He is still trying about 28-30 oucnes a day.

Thanks!!

**Sasha** · 01-20-2006, 10:20 AM

Ally, I obsessed over this for awhile, lol. Basically I just decided that there is no set right or wrong way to integrate bottles and solids, you just need to base it on the baby's signs. I tried doing it a couple different ways before I came up with what worked best for us. We now do a mix of giving bottles separately and with meals. Sarah gets three larger bottles alone (6-7 ozs, one when she wakes, one mid-afternoon snack and one before bed) and then a 4oz bottle with her mid-morning breakfast and another with her lunch.

HTH. It would be so much easier if babies came with a manual for introducing solids, wouldn't it?

**allyray231** · 01-20-2006, 10:35 AM

Thanks Sasha LOL it is soo true! Hard to figure this all out

**cece** · 01-20-2006, 11:14 AM

this was my son's schedule around that age:

wake: 6-6:30a

bottle when awake

breakfast: around 7-7:30a

nap: 8:30a

bottle: around 9:30 or 10

lunch: noon-ish

nap: 12:30-1:30

bottle: when awake from nap [1:30 or 2]

dinner: 5-ish

bottle: 6-ish before bed

i also gave him a morning snack and late afernoon snack.

hope that helps!

*c

**Pookie** · 01-20-2006, 11:20 AM

I agree with the others about doing what works best for your baby. My DS, who is 10 months, just started getting 3 solids meals a day.

**catmom** · 01-20-2006, 11:37 AM

We had to do a lot of trial-and-error to figure out what worked best for DD. Currently, she gets nursed/bottle and then solids right afterwards. Once she hits a year or so, I may switch it so that she gets the solids first.