Sam's been on three solid meals per day since he was about seven months old. Thing is, two of those meals are really only very small.

Our day is structured in a very similar manner to Jakabella's - we have four bottles and three meals and they alternate. If we've been out, or something like an extra-long nap has happened, they may switch, but that's the general pattern of the day. Sam's bottles still happen around every 4 hours (there's a longer gap between the last two for the day, but his biggest meal is in there and we have a later bed time for him), and we've tried to stick with that pattern.

We started with just having breakfast, then fairly quickly added in dinner as he is most interested in solids at night, and that gave us a really nice evening routine of dinner, bath, bottle, bed. When he started wanting his afternoon bottles earlier and earlier, we added in lunch as well. He still doesn't really eat much for breakfast and can sometimes happily skip lunch, but all three meals exist in some form.

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