6 Month Old Baby Bottle Schedule

However that amount may change depending on how much solid food your child is eating.

6 month old baby bottle schedule.

Dinner water available in a sippy cup about 1 4 cup of various homemade baby food and a meltable crunchy food like these wafers and or soft cubed foods see note below. 7 00a wake feed nurse or bottle 7 30a playtime. Breastfed infants usually take smaller more frequent feedings than formula fed infants. I always offer breastmilk or formula first.

Anything more and likely you have a sleep association problem aside from the 6 month growth spurt that should only last a few days to a week. Breakfast 8 00 am serve oatmeal or rice cereal. Every 4 to 5 hours. For both breastfed and bottle fed babies.

At 4 to 6 months. Skip to the schedule. At this age if you are not lucky enough to have a baby who sleeps through the night many 6 month olds are still waking 1 2 times to eat at night. Little nap 1 hour 7 p m.

Have lunch of a vegetable and a fruit with a 6 ounce bottle. Every 3 to 4 hours. Every 4 to 5 hours. 2 00p wake feed nurse or bottle.

The foods and drinks you feed your child are sometimes called complementary foods. Afterwards dad comes home and she plays with him or we go for a walk. For dinner she gets two servings of vegetable and one of fruit. Alert icon you can think of these as complementing or adding to the breast milk or infant formula that you continue to feed your child.

Amount and schedule of formula feedings after the first few days. Sleeping for the night. If your child isn t finishing his or her bottle at each feeding after you ve introduced solid foods it s fine to cut back slightly. 6 month old feeding schedule.

A bottle is only given here if she wants it. At 6 months old formula fed babies will eat approximately six to eight ounces of formula at each feeding. This is because breastmilk or formula is still the 1 source of nutrition for your baby still and food is still for practice at this age. 8 15a offer solids for breakfast.

11 45a or noon offer solids for lunch. Your formula fed newborn will take from 2 to 3 ounces 60 90 ml of formula per feeding and will eat every three to four hours on average during her first few weeks. Otherwise we play a little then start her bedtime routine at 7 p m. 10 30a wake feed nurse or bottle 11 00a playtime.

5th feeding directly back to bed some people do begin to introduce solids before 6 months old so make sure to watch my video about that and you can just incorporate the solid feedings either before or after the bottles using this schedule. Wake 7 30 am nurse bottle. 6 month old baby s sleep.