Breastfeeding/ food schedule?

Question

Hi all! This is my first baby and I’m sooo confused on when/ how much “food” my baby should have on top of breastfeeding. Right now I’m BF just has much as i always have, and giving purees at dinner time. I know I should be giving more but I’m not sure how to go about it. Do I breastfeed less now that he’ll be eating food? Do I BF and then offer food or vice versa? My dr suggested doing more than just purees but every time I cut up something and set it in front of him, he has no clue that he’s supposed to eat it... he doesn’t even try touching it. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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I am doing BLW but I’ve also used purées as well out of ease.  Usually, my daughter feeds at 3:30 and we have dinner around 5 before I go to work.  She’s breastfed.  I put her in her high chair with whatever she’s having and we sit together and eat.  
With a purée, I put the spoon close to her mouth, but let her come to the spoon   If that makes sense?   I let her take what she wants from the spoon   She loves to blow a bubble into the purée and then eat it off the spoon.  Okay kid.  Sure.   
I keep offering the purée until she stops showing interest.  One night she legit ate 4 ounces of bananas.  I was shocked, but BLW saying baby needs to be in charge.   But the other night at her grandparents?   She only ate around 2 ounces of peaches.   I didn’t force the issue.  
I do the same when I give her food.  I put some on her plate and have a bowl ready with more, out of her reach, if she wants more....I provide more.  If she isn’t interested....we move on and say well we tried.  Or she played with green beans today. Haha.  It’s really fun to watch and share with her.  
I have not reduced her breast milk feedings at all.

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I breastfeed on demand, just as always and my sons caregivers offer the bottle just the same as always, although he doesn’t usually finish his last “daycare” bottle of the day.  
I’ve heard to feed baby solids an hour after giving milk so that they are hungry, but not ravenous.  For my son, who is almost 7 months, I give 1-2oz of purée for lunch and an oz at dinner.  I also just started giving him teething crackers which he loves! Today he reached for a bell pepper so I gave him a slice to chew on, but I’m not sure he’s ready to swallow chunks, so I took it when it started weakening. 
I’ve noticed that eating my own meals at the table with my son in his high chair has definitely helped increase his interest in eating foods. It’s been a really really nice change of habit in my household. I also give him the silicone baby spoon dipped in some purée for him to practice with and he enjoys that.

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We’re keeping the same breastfeeding on demand schedule and adding in solids, usually twice a day for now. I do one around 10:30/11 am and the other around 5:30/6pm. My pediatrician said that solids are for iron more than calories and that the increase in food correlates to the increase in physical activity that they do around this age.

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They eat so little that it’ll hardly change how much milk they take. It might be good to try to give him food 3 times a day. The main thing they need from food at this age is iron. I give milk when he wants it and I give food about an hour after he gets up. I also use this great contraption that allows the baby to chew chunks of foods themselves without chocking on pieces. I’ll attach a photo. You cut fruit or vegetables and put it in the top. There are holes for the juices and some fibre to come out but nothing large enough to get caught in the throat. This is my third baby and all three of my babies absolutely loved this.

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I was about to write the same post! Lol. What I've been doing is breastfeeding as normal, that's to say every 3-4 hours. Then now we do lunch and dinner purees. Depending on the day baby will eat anywhere from 1-4oz per meal. Usually his meals happen about an hour after breastfeeding. 
However at daycare they prefer to give him the puree first then a bottle after because it's easier for their schedule which is fine. So usually he makes it until 11 after nursing in the morning, then has his puree then a smaller bottle. Then we do dinner at home. 
Up to this point I've only given pureed fruits or veggies or beans, no cereal or oatmeal... And sometimes we give soft sticks of food like steamed carrots, banana, etc that he likes to feed himself.

Breastfeeding/ food schedule?

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