Droping feeds?

[bubbles28]

Hi everyone,
my son is 7mths and 1 week. He is having 3 meals of vegies and fruit a day. I'm currently breast feeding and giving him an extra 120mls of formula at night as well. He is having 5 feeds of milk a day.
Should he be droping one of those feeds? If so, which one?
Someone told me it would be the lunch time one. So I would feed him at say 8am, then drop the 12pm feed and then feed him at 4pm again. Is this right?
I'm a little unsure about the whole weaning process.
Thanks heaps :D

[poshBecks]

Do you do a late night feed? If so i'd drop that one. When ds was same age i dropped his to a bottle at breakky (6:30am), lunch & dinner (6:00pm). Then by 9 or 10 mths i dropped the lunch one.

Becky
mum of ...
Connor 17 mths
Bump due Dec '05

[jembelina]

My little man is about the same age as your bub and eating three meals a day and is also breastfed. He has dropped to 4 feeds a day(6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm - roughly), but up until a week ago was feeding during the night as well. Dropped the night feeds as they were very erratic and I came to the conclusion he just did not need them. Obviously he didn't as he is now sleeping through :D I have never really thought about weaning as such. I think unless you want him to stop breastfeeding all together, you don't really need to actively wean day feeds, at this age/stage. He will most likely drop a feed when he no longer needs it. I have noticed, since dropping night feeds, day feeds are more regular and less distracted if that makes sense! Don't forget, that up until 12 months the boob is still their main source of nutrition!

[pickles]

I am presently doing exactly the same as you. My son is 6 1/2 months and has three meals a day, 3 breastfeeds, 1 bottle of expressed milk (150mls) and formula to bed ( 150 -180 mls ). The easiest feed for me to drop in about 6 weeks time will be the afternoon one , this will be when I introduce afternoon tea ( usually a youghart in place of the missing milk feed. Sometimes however I think that afternoon feed is more a comfort feed than any large quantity. If you went out one afternoon you would find that they may happily take afternoon tea and a drink from someone else.
pickles
DD 02/03
ds 03/05

[bubbles28]

Thanks for info everyone.
The last time I feed him at night is at 10.30 then he gets up roughly at around 3-4am for feed again. He doesn't feed that well and I have tried to settle him back to sleep without a feed. It doesn't work though. He cries untill I feed him. Any suggestions how I can drop this night feed?
I might start giving him morning and afternoon tea to see if that helps. Maybe he is still hungry.
Thanks heaps

[flower]

Thanks for info everyone.
The last time I feed him at night is at 10.30 then he gets up roughly at around 3-4am for feed again. He doesn't feed that well and I have tried to settle him back to sleep without a feed. It doesn't work though. He cries untill I feed him. Any suggestions how I can drop this night feed?
I might start giving him morning and afternoon tea to see if that helps. Maybe he is still hungry.
Thanks heaps
Bubbles; I recently dropped the 10/11pm feed.....went cold turkey basically. He didnt lose weight, die from starvation.....it took about 3 nights......they get through it. I know its hard..it feels like your being so mean.....but it works out in the end. Its your choice whatever you decide.
O's mom.