feeding schedule for 3 meals a day solids + bottles

DD is 7.5m. right now she eats 4 bottles/nursing and 2 fruits/veggies/cereal meals a day. i have to start adding lunch and water from a sippy.

a basic day goes like this:
wake up 730 - nurse
830 - bottle
1030 - fruits/veggie/cereal
1 - nurse/bottle
4 - nurse/bottle
6 - fruits/veggie/cereal
bedtime 8:30 - nurse/bottle

for solid meals she eats 2oz of fruits/veggies with 2 heaping tablespoons of cereal (rice/oatmeal).

so i know i should be adding another fruits/veggie/cereal prob between 1-4pm but then do i get rid of one bottle?? right now she finishes most of her food, leaves an oz from a bottle here and there and a few spoonfuls of solids here and there. at some point i was feeding her bottles closer to her solids and she ended up spitting up A LOT so now that they are spaced out one bottle got cut out of the schedule and she's spitting up less.

she pretty much never seems hungry prior to a meal unless we are out in the car or something and the schedule gets pushed back. but she always eats almost everything. she also STTN most nights and when she does wake up I nurse but usually more for comfort than hunger because she nurses for 5 minutes and then is out.

thoughts??

Message edited 1/2/2012 11:48:38 AM.

Re: feeding schedule for 3 meals a day solids + bottles

What is your third meal supposed to be? for us, we added protein at 6 mos. so our day, at 8.5 mos is:

wake up-bottle
about an hour or so later-fruit/cereal
mid morning bottle/nap
noon-1ish-lunch of protein/veg
mid afternoon bottle
6:30ish-protein dinner.veg
7:30ish -last bottle before sttn

Re: feeding schedule for 3 meals a day solids + bottles

Message edited 1/2/2012 3:37:25 PM.

Re: feeding schedule for 3 meals a day solids + bottles

When we moved to three times a day, the dr. didn't want us giving more cereal (carb) and at this point, she's down to one cereal..maybe you could try the rice and lentil? That's considered a protein-yogurt is, as well and I mix that with a veg (can be a fruit, too, but my dd can't have too much fruit due to the acid bugging her eczema)