What's your feeding schedule for your 9 month old?

[Anonymous]

Still nursing (and bottles at daycare) and having trouble navigating the transition from all breastmilk to more and more solids. Pediatrician said he can be on three meals per day now, but how do I balance this with breastfeeding? Just looking for a general schedule to get an idea of timing. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

At that age, my babies were eating four meals a day, at (roughly) 8am, noon, 4pm, 7pm. So, breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner. 2 naps. For the first three meals of the day, it was bottle immediately followed by solids. Dinner was the other way around - solids, then bottle, then in bed at 8. We didn’t drop below four bottles until after a year, though the bottles did decrease in size as they got more into solids.

We stick with that schedule indefinitely, dropping bottles and replacing with a sippy of milk with the meal between 12 and 15 months. When they drop to one nap, we add in a tiny morning snack (generally a pouch) at around 10am. Oldest is 3, he’s still on this schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At that age, my babies were eating four meals a day, at (roughly) 8am, noon, 4pm, 7pm. So, breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner. 2 naps. For the first three meals of the day, it was bottle immediately followed by solids. Dinner was the other way around - solids, then bottle, then in bed at 8. We didn’t drop below four bottles until after a year, though the bottles did decrease in size as they got more into solids.

We stick with that schedule indefinitely, dropping bottles and replacing with a sippy of milk with the meal between 12 and 15 months. When they drop to one nap, we add in a tiny morning snack (generally a pouch) at around 10am. Oldest is 3, he’s still on this schedule.

Oh, sorry, I should note this was pumped milk for my younger at (exclusively pumped) and was nursing for my older. Same either way, though, as far as schedule.

[Anonymous]

I have a nine month old and this is our schedule:
wakeup - bottle
8am - breakfast (food)
10 - bottle
12 - lunch (food)
1 - bottle
4 - bottle
5:30 - dinner (food)
bedtime bottle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a nine month old and this is our schedule:
wakeup - bottle
8am - breakfast (food)
10 - bottle
12 - lunch (food)
1 - bottle
4 - bottle
5:30 - dinner (food)
bedtime bottle

This is exactly what ours was at 9 months. Swapped 4pm bottle for a snack closer to a year. Swapped 10am bottle for a snack at a year. Still gets milk in the morning, after lunch (before nap), and before bedtime routine at 2. Water all day and with meals.

[Anonymous]

My almost 1yo was doing five meals around 9 months (long story but he was all in on solids), and I also have a 3yo so scheduled are rough but it’s something like:

Wake up, nurse.
6:30 breakfast (usually a little fruit since it’s just after nursing)
9:00 second breakfast (solids)
10:00 nurse/nap 1
12:00 lunch (solids)
13:00 nurse/nap 2
15:00 snack (solids)
16:00 nurse
17:30 dinner (solids)
18:00 nurse/bed
1:00 middle of the night feed

With my older I think at 9mo I was nursing before and after each nap and she was only doing three meals so there’s a range obviously.

[Anonymous]

Mine just turned 9 months and is only eating twice a day right now, lunch and dinner. I’m going to aim to get her up to 3 meals by maybe like 10.5 months. She still doesn’t eat that much at each meal. Just working on getting her to eat more finger foods every day