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Food & Drink1 min ago
I have started to feed my 20 week old baby He has been totally Breast fed up until now. My Sister says he should be on 3 meals a day, my health visitor says she cannnot advise me to feed solid food until 6 months. The books say breast feed then give food.
If i breast feed first then he doesnt want solid food.
if i give solid first then he doesnt want breast fed.
is it ok to drop a milk feed in favour of a jar?
If i dont feed him solids he wants fed every 2 hours and his tummy is so full he brings the milk back up.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.you could try a teaspoon or two of baby rice mixed with your milk in the morning then continue to breast feed. if hes like mine, then they usually fall asleep after a feed and so are not bothered with eating. it will be trial and error until you find out what suits you both. personally three meals a day at 20 weeks is too much.
he may just be on a growth spurt and after a few days go back to breast only. on the other hand he may decide that he does want solids - be led by your baby and dont panic about it.
My HV actually told me to start on solids when my sone was 4.5 months old. I was told to start with ceral / carbs to keep his weight up. He had a baby cereal in the morning made with 2ozs of his bottle. We then continued like that for a few weeks before introducing some food / puree with his teatime bottle.
Once he turned 6 months he had solids at lunch as well as a bottle.
From 7 months i dropped his lunchtime bottle so he now has
8am porridge and bottle
12pm savoury and desert
4pm savoury and bottle
7pm bottle then bed
I will be cutting out the 4pm bottle soon as he is drinking less and less of this