Hey hun,

Yes it is very confusing until you get the hang of it! once i stopped listening to everyone else, and going with what i thought was right and what DD wanted, everything became much easier.

From about 6 months, bub should be having around 600mls of milk - or more if they need it (acording to the can and the clinic nurses). DD is 8 months and has around this but some days more and some days less. She started 3 meals a day when she was about 7 months but that was because she seemed to start needing it. Before this i was giving her a bottle for lunch, however she was hungry half hour later, hence introducing the food lunch.

Like leckert said, it is best to do the bottle first cos that is supposed to be their main source of nutrition still. Once i started on solids, DD reduced her morning feed by about 50-100mls. I can't remember exactly but i think at 6 months she was having something like 150ml bottle, rice cereal and apple (or something similar) for breakfast with 45 min in between. Then bottle at 11am (200ml), bottle at 3pm (200ml) then veggie dinner about 5pm and 250ml for bedtime at 7pm. Like you said some days she finished the bottle and others she didn't. I just let her be the judge.

I started giving her meat and other things when she was about 7.5 months and it has been go go go since then! I haven't tried her on vegemite or anything but most the girls in my MG give bubba's that type of stuff so it's really up to you!

Good luck with everything!!! it is all a new learning game when they move to another stage!

xo