6 Month Old Baby Bottle 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.

6 month old baby bottle schedule.

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. At 6 months old formula fed babies will eat approximately six to eight ounces of formula at each feeding. Sleeping for the night. Breastfed infants usually take smaller more frequent feedings than formula fed infants.

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. 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. 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. Skip to the schedule.

10 30a wake feed nurse or bottle 11 00a playtime. Every 4 to 5 hours. A bottle is only given here if she wants it. However that amount may change depending on how much solid food your child is eating.

Amount and schedule of formula feedings after the first few days. 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. At 4 to 6 months. 11 45a or noon offer solids for lunch.

Sample schedule for 6 month old. 7 00a wake feed nurse or bottle 7 30a playtime. For dinner she gets two servings of vegetable and one of fruit. 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. Every 3 to 4 hours. 6 month old baby s sleep. The foods and drinks you feed your child are sometimes called complementary foods.

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. Breakfast 8 00 am serve oatmeal or rice cereal. Wake 7 30 am nurse bottle. Have lunch of a vegetable and a fruit with a 6 ounce bottle.

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. I prefer oatmeal and mix it with pumped breastmilk. 6 month old feeding schedule. Afterwards dad comes home and she plays with him or we go for a walk.

I always offer breastmilk or formula first. Little nap 1 hour 7 p m. For both breastfed and bottle fed babies.