Having introduced solids to Eric I started to wonder - how much should he eat, drink, what’s the right amount of calories for a baby his age (he was 8 months at the time). I was mostly worried about dehydration because I suspected that cutting the number of breastfeeds will cause him to not get enough fluids.

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1. [...] he started to accept formula milk as a drink, because he didn’t like water either. Still, babies need to drink 500 - 600ml of breast milk or formula a day and Eric clearly wasn’t getting as much so I tried to give him more soup. To get him to [...]

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My baby is nearly 9 month old and it looks like we finally have a routine I can trust. He has 2 naps, one in the morning and one in the afternoon and has 3 solid meals a day. That is, if you ask me, almost too good to be true! And the best thing is that Eric has worked out this routine for himself.

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