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.
6 month old baby bottle schedule.
Breakfast 8 00 am serve oatmeal or rice cereal.
The foods and drinks you feed your child are sometimes called complementary foods.
For dinner she gets two servings of vegetable and one of fruit.
I always offer breastmilk or formula first.
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.
Afterwards dad comes home and she plays with him or we go for a walk.
8 15a offer solids for breakfast.
Breastfed infants usually take smaller more frequent feedings than formula fed infants.
Skip to the schedule.
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.
2 00p wake feed nurse or bottle.
When your child is about 6 months old you can start introducing him or her to foods and drinks other than breast milk and infant formula.
At 6 months old formula fed babies will eat approximately six to eight ounces of formula at each feeding.
6 month old baby s sleep.
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.
Little nap 1 hour 7 p m.
A bottle is only given here if she wants it.
Wake 7 30 am nurse bottle.
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.
Sleeping for the night.
7 00a wake feed nurse or bottle 7 30a playtime.
Otherwise we play a little then start her bedtime routine at 7 p m.
For both breastfed and bottle fed babies.
11 45a or noon offer solids for lunch.
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.
Every 3 to 4 hours.
6 month old feeding schedule.
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.
10 30a wake feed nurse or bottle 11 00a playtime.
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.
Every 4 to 5 hours.
However that amount may change depending on how much solid food your child is eating.
Have lunch of a vegetable and a fruit with a 6 ounce bottle.
I prefer oatmeal and mix it with pumped breastmilk.
Every 4 to 5 hours.