dropping the night feed when weaning

bungaro79

hi all,
smallie is now 4 months old and doing great thankfully!! we're looking into weaning her in the next couple of months (i want to wait till 6 months from what i've read on here but the wife wants to start at 5 months) and i'm wondering what the story will be with the dream/night feed?? currently her routine is:
7am
11am
3pm
7pm
11pm
most are 6oz except for the 7am which we give her an extra ounce.

we wake her and change her for the dream feed and someone told us to gradually drop an ounce over time until we think she is ready, does this sound right?? and if so when should we start this??

other thing i'm wondering is once we start weaning does the bottle routine change much??

thanks!

lazygal

Babies are supposed to get their nutrition from breast milk or formula until one year of age so I would not drop any feeds just because they're starting solids. Also six months is the recommended age for starting solids. We did baby led weaning and let the baby explore foods at their own pace. I breast and bottle fed my first and breastfed my second and both times they slowly moved from milk to solids at their own pace without the need to actively drop milk feeds.

slinky2000

Ours is 6 months now and we've got her to this

7am 7oz bottle
10am solids
11:30am 5oz bottle
2pm solids
4pm 5oz bottle
6pm 7oz bottle
8pm 7oz bottlle

And it's down for the night to bed

We had the 11/12pm bottle for a while but we kept moving the feeds earlier and earlier and eventually she didn't need it.

orchidsrpretty

Mine dropped their dreamfeed about 2-3 weeks into weaning. They now go from 6,30-6,30 without looking for a feed. I did the 3,7,11 routine too. They take 7/8 oz when they wake brekkie at 8,30. 5 oz at 11 dinner and dessert at 12 7/8 oz at 3. Tea at 5 and last bottle 7/8 at 6,30. Seems to work they are stsrting to drop the 11 am themselves as most days they might only take 2/3 oz.. I also offer them lots of water auto replace missing fluids from milk.

Reggie.

Our lass is 14 months

8am solids
10am 6 oz bottle
1pm solids
4pm 6 oz bottle
6pm solids
8pm 6 oz bottle and solids if required

bungaro79

thanks guys, will see how it goes when the solids are introduced in the next few weeks