How to Drop a Milk Feed
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro
Intro
This chapter explores the transition from milk feedings to solid foods for infants during the critical weaning period. It discusses changes in milk intake, addresses misconceptions, and shares personal insights on the challenges and routines parents face during this developmental stage.
#55: How do you drop a milk feed? The whole point of weaning is that your baby gradually replaces the nutrition he or she was getting from breastmilk and/or formula and replaces that with the foods they’re learning how to eat. But at some point during the weaning process, we have to be proactive about dropping that first milk feed.
In this episode I’m covering some ideas for gradually cutting back on your baby’s milk intake as food intake increases. Do you cut the night feed? The morning milk? And how do we set up a feeding schedule such that milk follows food as we approach your baby’s first birthday? Listen in for all you need to know about dropping milk feeds!
Listen to this episode to learn:
1. Why your baby’s milk intake at 12 months will look remarkably different in volume and frequency than it did at 6 months
2. How babies learn to recognize and respond to their hunger and fullness cues (...and spoiler alert: it doesn’t happen when they’re full of milk!)
3. Suggested feeding schedule for a 1 year old baby transitioning off of breastmilk/formula and on to cow’s milk with 3 meals, milk after meals and bedtime milk each day.
Shownotes for this episode can be found here:
https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/55
Links from this episode:
• Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program and get $50 off when you sign up using the code BLWPOD50
• Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners
Other episodes related to this topic:
• Episode 235 - When to Move Milk Behind Food with Nicole Boehm
• Episode 187 - 8-9 Months Old Babies: Sample BLW Feeding Schedule
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Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.
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Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN and save $50 off when you sign up using the code BLWPOD50.
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