thread: Breastfeeding at 7 months - how often?

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  1. #1
    Registered User

    Mar 2007
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    My 9 1/2 month old is having 3 solids meals a day and still up to 8-10 breastfeeds in 24 hrs!!
    I am just continuing to BF on demand.

  2. #2
    BellyBelly Member

    Oct 2008
    Over The Rainbow
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    I Feed my dd whos nearly 9 months now 4-5 times during the day depending on the heat two shes still on 3 solid meals throughout the day too

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Mar 2009
    2,269

    My DD is a few days from 9 months. We are having 3 solid meals a day and around 7-8 breastfeeds.

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Dec 2009
    203

    Just keep feeding on demand, your baby knows when she needs booby

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Jul 2005
    Sydney
    7,896

    She's very little still and bm should still be her main food. I would definitely keep bfing her in the morning and I'd be sure to give her a bf before every solid meal at this age. Milk is her most important source of nutrients until she is one, solid foods won't give her nutritionally what she needs the way bm will.

    GL!

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Nov 2006
    Sydney, NSW
    408

    I am so glad I read this post tonight!

    DS#2 is 5 months old and 100% demand fed which I am enjoying immensely.
    Sometimes he has a set number of solid feeds in the day and other times he is more of a snacker. Some nights he sleeps long blocks and only needs 1-2 feeds and other nights he is awake every two hours and feeds as if he is starving to death. I know all of this is normal!!

    MIL spend the night with us last night and today she commented on how often DS#2 feeds and although I smiled, nodded, and tried to let it go in one ear and out the other, it still did my head in.

    So I am glad to have the reminder that demand feeding is fine and that my son knows when he NEEDS booby, whether for nutritional need or emotional need.