6 Month Old Feeding Schedule

When our baby was still on cereal, he was on the following schedule:

breakfast 6:30ish - bottle and cereal
mid-morning - 'snack' consisting of a bottle
lunch 12:00 - bottle (and then eventually cereal or veggies, as he moved through new foods)
after-nap - 'snack' consisting of a bottle
dinner 4:15ish - bottle and cereal
bedtime 6:30 - bottle
(no bottle overnight; he slept through the night 6:30 - 6:30 from about 4 months)

Of course, we followed his feeding cues and if he needed to eat earlier, eat less or more, or not at all we respected that. We wanted to try to move him to a more 'traditional' meal schedule of breakfast, lunch, dinner with two snacks that we knew he'd be following. He ate his meals with us at the table, and it was great because we totally began to build a sense of community and family through meal time.

I've wondered the same thing. But this is what we do. My son (almost 6 months too) doesn't do well with cereal for some reason. If he did, I would include this into the breakfast.

7:30 - fruit, 4.5 oz bottle
10:30 - 7.5 oz bottle
1:30 - 7.5 oz bottle
5:00 - vegetable, 5 oz bottle

He a lot of times has a 6 oz bottle very early in the morning anywhere from 5 to 6am. And then sometimes he gets a bottle before bed but that is if he goes to sleep later.

My D is 6 1/2 months and she gets cereal with a little fruit (maybe 3 spoons dry) once a day and then veggies at night. She has gotten up to eating one container of the stage 1. I am taking it slow so she doesn't get constipated and to see if she has a reaction to anything in particular. So far no issues. I figure we will add another cereal or another veggie in the next month. We have also give her a little fresh banana and a little bit of apple now and then. She gets a bottle of breast milk maybe 4 times a day and I feed her still. It is still her main nutrition.

When my baby was about 6 months she was on nursing/bottles and just a little bit of oatmeal cereal. We didn't start any other solids until about 8 months. But what I basically did was:
morning: nursed
noon: cereal then bottle
mid-afternoon: bottle/nursed before nap
dinner: cereal then bottle
mid-evening: bottle
bedtime: nursed

I'd see how much cereal she ate and then made up her bottles accordingly. The less she ate, the more milk she got and vice versa. When we started baby food, she'd have it breakfast, lunch, and dinner and a sippy of breastmilk or formula. In-between meals, she'd have a bottle. After a year, I started cutting one bottle out at a time and substituting a snack & sippy. And we'd just let her snack whenever she wanted.
Now she's a little over two and she's a great eater and a healthy weight. I know everyone does things differently. You just have to figure out what works best for your son. Good luck!

This is what my pediatrician told me to do:

breakfast (8-9 a.m.): cereal, fruit, then bottle
lunch (12-1 p.m.):cereal, 1/2 vegetable, 1/2 fruit, then bottle
dinner (5-6 p.m.): cereal, vegetable, then bottle
bedtime: bottle

The amounts of food differ with each child. My son ate a ton of food. A 1/4 cup of cereal and an entire carton of Gerber 1st at every meal, then a 6 oz bottle. My doctor said always food first, then bottle, so the child doesn't fill up completely on liquids. It really worked for us. Hope it works for you!

Each child is different. Just start with a bottle upon waking then an hour or so later maybe fruit with cereal(I would empty the jar of fruit into a bowl and pour some cereal right in to the consistency they like) in the morning then mid morning a bottle then lunch is veggies with a bottle before nap. then when they wake up from nap a bottle then dinner being veggies and a meat choice with a small bottle to wash it down and then another bottle before bed. PLay with it and listen to her cues. It's good you don't remember your older daughter's schedule because you'd be trying to fit your younger son's day to fit that and he is a different kid. It will be similiar but you'll get the feel for what he likes and how he wants to do it. For example he may want to wake up and eat solids right away and then have a bottle an hour or so after that.

My doc told me not to put my kids on a feeding schedule. At this age, they will stop when they are full so they should not overeat. I have 3 perfectly healthy kids under 5 and this is how I did it!