Looking for Sample Eating Schedules for Breastfed 7 Month Olds

I assuem you are pumping milk for day care... so I would have day care feed him his solid foods so you dont have to pump so much. I hated pumping and it is hard to keep up with the demand..

so have him eat cereal in the mid am at day care and a fruit or veggie in the mid afternoon at day care.

He can begin to have a bit of water with his solid meals. it is not too young to introduce the sippy cup.. he wont drink much from it but he can try. he doesnt need much water but just a sip to "wash down" his food.. really ther htm
I only gave my breast fed kids one meal a day of solid foods until they were 8 months old... just cereal and a fruit or veggie around dinner time. at about 9 months we went to 2 meals a day.

each time you add more solids they will want less milk. milk is the only source of nutrition for the first year. all the other foods are just practce for eating later.

Check www.llli.org under the Resources section then look for info on Introducing Complementary Foods. I think moms who breastfeed and work are nothing less than heroic. Good for you, C.!

you feed them the solid first than feed them the bottle of breast. When your at home feed him the solid food than the breast than i would pumpo because hes gonna get fuller on food than formula. if your giving a sippie cup than put it in there during meals as he gets bigger.

Hi C.,

For the first year of a baby's life, the breastmilk is the most important food. You treat the solids as though they are supplementing the breastmilk. So for the first year, you offer the breastmilk first and follow up with solids. After a year, the solids take a more prominent role in nutrition. So it would be solids first then breastmilk. If you'd like you can add sips of water when he's eating, but it isn't mandatory. I hope this helps. You can get more info on La Leche League's website at www.llli.org Warmly, S.

You generally want to wait a little while after nursing or giving a bottle so you can be sure he's got room in his belly for the solid foods. My son loved solid foods so he pretty much always ate his full serving. When he was with me sometimes he'd still want to nurse, but I think at daycare he usually didn't drink anything. But he also just really loves to nurse, so I don't think he was necesarily needing to nurse. I think I started to introduce water in a sippy cup around that time too, he didn't really drink much, but it was good practice. I don't know how things are working for you, but it was such a relief to me when he started on solids because his bottle demand went down and I was struggling to pump enough for him while he was at daycare.

The daycare workers may be able to give you advice, I'm sure they have seen lots of babies make the transition. My youngest is 14 months now and my memory of how we did it is starting to fade. Good luck!

i nursed my daughter until she was 15 months. When we starting adding solids into her day, i would feed her about 2 hours before giving her cereal or fruits or veggies. Then i would know she would be hungry to eat the solids. I would give her a cup of milk with her meal to drink after she was done. Then i would nurse her about an hour later or so, if i didn't feel she ate much. If she ate good, then i would wait 2-3 hours to nurse her.

When we went to the sippy cup, we went to the straw cups. As a breastfeed baby, they already understand how to suck and it's the same concept with the straw. So breastfeed babies, can transition rather easily to the straw cups. My daughter will be 2 in feb, and is still having difficulty figuring out other type of sippy cups.

I have also read, that the "normal" sippy cup can delay speech, due to the shape your mouth is in to drink from that cup. The mouth is in the shape of the "th" sound, and that is not a common sound. Where the straw cup, helps to keep the tongue in the back of the mouth. In most speech the tongue is kept in the back of the mouth so this helps them understand tongue position.

My daughter's speech is that of a 3 year old already, and she is only 22 months.