[Kemma]

DD2 is 8 months now and is down to about 4 day bf's. she's eating breakfast lunch and dinner plus finger food (not much eaten) for morning and afternoon tea.

In the morning do you do solids first or milk?

[KRT]

I think the standard advice is to start solids before milk at around 8 months. However, I have always done milk first and will still offer at BF first at 13 months. I don't think it really matters unless you have a baby that will fill up on milk and then reject solids.

[~Supernova~]

Well DS hasn't had a bottle awake for months...we have to try to feed him one when he is asleep. So we've been doing food first since around 8mths I guess, but through necessity lol.

[lozoodle]

With both of my girls I started solids before milk (other than first thing in the morning when they had a milk feed on first waking) at about 8-9 months. Milk was usually half hour or so later. Then at about 9 months they dropped to 3 bottles a day anyway.

This post has been edited by lozoodle: 06/02/2013, 06:37 AM

[GoodGollyMolly]

Apart from a BF upon waking, I've always done solids before Bfeed. I didn't realise you were supposed to do it the other way around!

[Kemma]

Since starting this thread I've tried solids first and found it works better for us. DD is enjoying the food and trying different things and still having at least 4 BF's a day.

She's recently started 'cruising' so I think she'll do we'll with the extra calories.

[harryhoo]

Hi. We switched to solids before bottle (EBM) at about nine months. The only time this changes is if DS wakes up before 7am. If he wakes before 7am he has bottle and then breakfast at about 7, but otherwise it's breakfast when he wakes up and bottle about half an hour to an hour later. I think we switched over then because I read that it was at about nine months when food started to become more important and DS was well established on three meals a day. For all his other bottles he had them after food.

[Sassy Girl]

My sister and I were both told solids after milk before 12 months but solids before milk after 12 months. My children are ranged from 13- 20 but my niece is only 3.5 years so I guess that information hasn't changed since I had my children.

[meggs1]

I continued doing the morning BF first - mainly because he is an early riser and I could take him back to bed with me, feed him and then let him play on the bedroom floor for a while before actually getting up.

[RachealJane]

After 12 months as food is just for fun before 1.