6 Month Old Baby Bottle Schedule

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.

6 month old feeding schedule. Every 3 to 4 hours. Have lunch of a vegetable and a fruit with a 6 ounce bottle. At 4 to 6 months.

I prefer oatmeal and mix it with pumped breastmilk. 6 month old baby s sleep. 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. However that amount may change depending on how much solid food your child is eating.

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. Otherwise we play a little then start her bedtime routine at 7 p m. For dinner she gets two servings of vegetable and one of fruit. 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.

The foods and drinks you feed your child are sometimes called complementary foods. Every 4 to 5 hours. At 6 months old formula fed babies will eat approximately six to eight ounces of formula at each feeding. Little nap 1 hour 7 p m.

Afterwards dad comes home and she plays with him or we go for a walk. 11 45a or noon offer solids for lunch. Breastfed infants usually take smaller more frequent feedings than formula fed infants. 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.

7 00a wake feed nurse or bottle 7 30a playtime. For both breastfed and bottle fed babies. Every 4 to 5 hours. 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.

Skip to the schedule. Wake 7 30 am nurse bottle. 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. Breakfast 8 00 am serve oatmeal or rice cereal.

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. I always offer breastmilk or formula first. A bottle is only given here if she wants it. 8 15a offer solids for breakfast.

Amount and schedule of formula feedings after the first few days. 2 00p wake feed nurse or bottle. Sleeping for the night.