BF or solids first?

[JLeigh29]

DS is 9 months and currently on 4 BF a day - 4am, 9am, 2pm and 7pm (roughly). He usually has breakfast at 7:30am, lunch around 12pm, a small snack at 4:30 and dinner at 6pm. Lately he's been not very interested at all in his 9am and 2pm feeds. I don't want to just drop them completely, so thought if I could get him to sleep through the first one, we could go back to three feeds that he'll (hopefully) be interested in, kwim?

This morning DH resettled him at 4:15am instead of a BF in an effort to get him to drop that early feed (mind you, he always goes straight back to sleep til around 7:15am so I'm not complaining!) so he's still asleep now. My question is, what do I give him when he wakes? I'm assuming he'll want a BF, but then, when should breakfast be? And his other BF's? I'm changing his whole day, aren't I? Arghhhh! Any ideas or advice would be hugely appreciated! TIA

[Livinthedream]

BF first hon. Seem like he is feeding 5 hrly, so I would stick with that (if bubs is happy to)
You will find that if this routine sticks, it will be the start of a new sytem (eg bed and nap times will all change too) so you may have to spend a week or so sorting out exactly what your new sytem is.
Having said that, LOL dont get too excited, sometimes they do these things for the novelty of it and then decide to go back to their old way.
Good luck, try to just go with it allandbubswill sort himself out in a week or so and you will know where its at then.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I would go with the flow hun, i BF first then about an hour later they got their solids.
So if you fed him at say 7am solids at 8 then lunch at 12, BF could still be around 2 snack then tea etc.

[JLeigh29]

Thanks for your replies. He slept through til about 6:45am then played happily in his cot as usual (I expected him to wake up screaming for a feed)....so far, so good! I BF at 7am, then gave him breakky at 7:45am (we had an 8:30am appointment today but I'd like to leave it a bit later next time).
Livinthedream - Exactly! I'm not expecting a flawless change by any means. We'll see if it sticks. Naps and bedtime should still be roughly the same if he sleeps til around the 7-7:30am mark though, so it shouldn't be too much of a change for him.
Zarava - Lol, I thought exactly the same as you with that timetable. It actually means nothing will change for him from his morning nap onwards.