OT Meals

[smjmekg]

Aubryana will be 9 months old on the 7th...when should I start giving her three meals a day? I still only give her two. Her schedule is something like this...I'm posting a wide range of times because everything depends on when she wakes up

630-830 wake up after eating to play
730-930 BF and take a nap
930-11 wake up, BF or play then BF then give her "breakfast"
12-2 BF and another nap
1-3 wake up and BF or play then BF and have dinner when we eat
4-6 BF and take the last nap of the day
by 730 she's up no matter what time she fell asleep and she plays or BFs then plays
830-9 BF and down for the night

[smjmekg]

Aubryana doesn't take a bottle, and at this point I refuse to give her one just so I don't have to try to wean her off one. Elijah was like the perfect weaner, lol...he stopped taking a binki at six months on his own, and at 11 months I switched him to a sippy cup with NO problems at all. I just stopped giving him bottles and he was fine with it. I know it's gonna be SO much harder to wean Aubryana, but BFing without a bottle was, IMO, the only way I'd be able to do it with my supply problems...My other concern is she's still 15 lbs...she's been that weight since her 6 month check up which was actually right before she turned 7 months. She's grown in length, and she's crawling now so I assume that's what's causing the lack of weight gain...I've just been so nervous about taking her to drs and hearing to supplement with formula, so far I haven't been told to. I'm still in shock though, she's the same size Elijah was when he was four months old and she's 8 1/2...she's 26 1/2 inches and 15 lbs...

[LosingMyMindInGA]

I've always done three meals starting when I begin baby foods.  I just don't worry about a skipped meal here and there until about a year old or when I start weaning from the bottle.