To ask what you feed your 10 month old?

[NewMummy48]

I have just seen the HV after 7 months (Been asking her to come to talk about weaning), I have been told that what I am feeding my DS is unacceptable and I need to change it today.

This is a typical day...

Baby porridge made with SMA milk - 9am

2 Rusks - crushed with SMA milk and a fruit layered yogurt- 12:30am

240ml SMA milk- 3pm

A jar of baby food with a jar of fruit if he wants it- 6pm

240ml SMA milk- 9pm

240ml SMA milk- 12pm (If he will not settle at night)

I have been told that I should be giving him porridge with piece of fruit and healthy snacks and dinners throughout to day- No jars.

This is fine but I would love to know some dinner ideas that would be suitable for him or a typical day for your and your DC?

Thanks :)

try the food and weaning section?
do you not have any weaning guides? at 10months my babies were all eating mushy versions of what I was having, main meal at lunch - rusk isn't really a good lunch.

I wouldnt give rusk at all - very sugary
Mine ate weetabix, ready brek, etc
Lunch was finger foods e.g. sandwich, fruit, etc plus yoghurt
Dinner was a hot meal e.g. pasta and sauce, meat, potato and veg, etc
They only had milk 2 or 3 times a day - am, pm and mid afternoon
snacks could be fruit, yoghurt, cheese crackers, cheese, etc

It's not terrible

But rusks are full of sugar/ sweeteners so probably best to avoid

Something like a mix of banana/ avocado/ toast/ boiled eggs is a great little mix for lunch that they should be able to feed themselves. Just leave everything in large pieces ( ie half a banana rather than cut up small) then they won't choke as will suck/ bite off what fits.

They can pretty much try anything you have for lunch/ dinner as long as its low in salt/ sugar and not too hard/ chokable.

What typical foods do you eat for dinner for example?

that does sound like too much sugar to me, and I am usually a bit meh at the sugar is poison views that seem to be held on here in general.

jars are really unnecessary on a regular basis, and you should be able to feed him something unprocessed not just jars

Dd is 11 months.

Breakfast tends to be either porridge and fruit puree or toast fingers with greek yoghurt or fruit puree.

Lunch is sometimes scrambled egg or mini sandwiches with chopped up cucumber, tomatoes, apple or mash potato with cheese and veg. Usually followed by yoghurt.

Tea she will have mainly what dd 1 who is 5 has, fishfingers with veg, spag bol, jackets potato (scooped out and mashed up) really just normal family meals adjusted to her age, so no salt and not to much sugar. She loves cooked chicken torn into strips that she can hold and eat, veg like brocoli and carrot batons are easy to hold. Again usually followed by yoghurt or fruit.

She still has 3/4 bottles a day but never has more than 5oz in one go.

you can make the stuff that's in the jars, but make it fresh. Just mash up what ever you are having - though probably not curry etc for a while!

Didn't mention snacks, she has rice cakes, those carrot crisps that look like cheesey wotsits, mini breadsticks, mashed banana. To be honest fitting in 3 meals and milk is hard enough between naps etc so snacks are not a regular occurence!

My 10m DD2 eats whatever DD1 (3.5) just a big more chopped if I'm spoon feeding her/big bigger chunks if it's finger food.

Yesterday:
6.30 6oz milk
7.00 readybrek with cows milk and a squeeze of Ella's Red One smoothie, toast fingers with butter and some blueberries.
1030 couple of rice cakes and some chopped grapes, water
12.00 baked potato with cream cheese, asparagus fingers and chopped cherry toms. Petit Filous. Blueberries. water
3.00 rest of her breakfast fruit smoothie pouch, rice cake half a malted milk she nicked off her sister
5.00 avocado sandwich, cherry tomato, red pepper fingers. Half a banana
6.00 readybrek
645 6oz formula

HTH

"Big" clearly = "bit"

Your baby can eat what you have, do you cook healthy meals for yourself? Just leave out the salt, sugar, honey and whole nuts.

Breakfast
weetabix, porridge, toast, crumpets all with added fresh or dried fruit.

Snacks
Fresh fruit, dried fruit, flapjack, yoghurts, cheese, crackers, rice cakes....

Lunch and dinner
Cottage pie, lasagne, stews, roast veggies, meat balls, rice, baked potatoes with topping, beans on toast.

I didn't use jars as DS hated them. If I needed to use a prepared meal I'd choose Ellas kitchen, plum or hipp.

If you do continue with rusks, just choose the wholemeal/ reduced sugar ones.

Also you can use tinned fruit as well, just choose the ones in fruit juice. So tinned peaches, pears, pineapple. They are lovely blended up as a puree to mix with breakfast cereal or added to yoghurt.

Good luck and try not to stress, after all it's the milk that is important at the moment.

At 10 months DD had a weetabix with whole cows milk for breakfast. Midmorning snack of whole banana or other fruit. Lunch would be cooked meat with some tomato and cucumber and a slice of bread. Mid afternoon snack of raisins and cheese, perhaps with crackers, or yoghurt. Dinner - small portion of whatever we were having, so something like pasta with tomato and veg sauce, or sausage beans chips, meat pie and vegetables, risotto, etc.

Water was offered with meals, and she was bf on demand too.

We never mashed anything or bought special baby food.

By 10 months DS was starting to eat whatever I was having, so in a typical day he would have

Breakfast - 1 weetabix, toast or crumpets

morning snack - fruit or toast

Lunch - sandwich/jacket potato

Afternoon snack - breaksticks/rice cakes

Tea - casserole/shepherds pie/lasange etc

It hasn't changed a great deal now at 2.7 just slightly more

A 10 month old baby should be eating most things that adults eat by now.. Say if u have a roast, baby can have it too, just cut up..

Formula Milk should only be given in morning and at bed time and cut completely by 12 months..

Breakfast - Toast, Weetabix, , porridge or similar

snacks- Fruit, dried fruit, cucumber, tomatoes, carrots, rice cakes, Yogurt

Lunch's-

... cheesy pasta with brocolli, green beans

... Roast potatoes, meat, peas, cauliflower

... Meatballs, spaghetti, sweetcorn

... Mash potato, mince, swede, parsnips

Tea's -
... Sandwiches with different fillings, ham, cheese etc

... Pitta breads

does your baby actually eat those sandwiches etc? my 10 and a half month old only actually eats stuff off a spoon. any finger foods he just sucks then spits out and throws on the ground.
I rely a lot on jars only because he loves them so much, much more than the stuff i make :( i think i started with jars when we went on holiday a month ago and now using them every day as they are so convenient.
when do they start feeding themselves with a spoon?

At 6mo DD ate what we ate, not mushed or puréed. Just in portions/pieces she could pick up herself. That included curry, lasagne, roast dinners, toast, sandwiches, cake, yoghurt...everything bar whole nuts, honey and grapes! At 9mo she had her own plate of Christmas dinner - at 10mo your baby doesn't need mushed up rusks or jars. Easy to know if you've done it before though, not so easy if it's your first and you think you're doing OK!

My DD is 12 months now but we did BLW weaning so from 6ish months.
Breakfast: Weetabix, porridge, toast, fruit, crumpets, scrambled egg, smoothies.
Lunch: sandwich, pasta, wrap, pittas filled with meat, cheese etc.
Tea: mash, roast dinner, baked potato, whatever we're having.
Snacks are usually, bread sticks, cheese, dried fruit, crackers.

Basically she has whatever we've got in, no jars as she doesn't really like them and wants to feed herself.
She has 2x9oz bottles of cows milk, one when she wakes up at one at bedtime.

Don't know why she said you had to give porridge and for breakfast though, DD never had it. Perhaps that's what the HV for breakfast so expects everyone to eat it?!

DS is 9.5 months. We still puree/mash a lot of his food and are introduing lumpy stuff gradually. He eats :

7.30am - 60ml milk
9am - baby porridge or cereal made with his milk
12 - savoury mush + yoghurt + water
4pm - 120ml milk
6.30pm - savoury mush + fruit mush + water
7.30pm - breastfeed

• 1 breast feed in the night

For the savoury mush we do cod, salmon, chicken or beef cooked with a selection of veg (potato, sweet potato, carrot, green beans, courgettes, tomatoes, peas, brocoli, cauliflower,...). Sometimes we add cheese (eg. cauliflower cheese) which he adores.

Fruit mush is bananas, apples, pears, apricots, peaches,...

He also tries food we're eating like bits of pasta (not a fan), bread, homemade cake and this morning Granny gave him a bit of croissant dipped in hot chocolate

Hiya,
My DD is almost 10 months and eats mostly what we eat, at the same time we eat. I used to get mega stressed about her diet but less so now, it's not as hard as 'they' make it sound, honest!

Typical day for her is:

6.30am Weetabix with chopped up banana in and whole milk on it
7am Bottle of SMA
12:00 Ham and cheese sandwiches (sliced bread) chopped up into soldiers so she can feed them to herself
3pm Bottle of SMA
6pm Pasta in sauce (just normal adult twisty pasta) that she can just sit and feed herself.
7pm Bottle of SMA

She has snacks morning and afternoon which might be fruit (e.g. halved strawberries, bits of tomato, sliced up mango or melon), Babybel, Petit Filous, toast cut into soldiers, sometimes the Organix or Ella's Kitchen finger foods.

I used to fanatically puree everything but soon got fed up of that and so did she, it's ace when they can feed themselves and you can just crack on with yours, have fun!

Oh and am amazed your HV didn't come round earlier to talk about weaning, mine was keen as mustard and came round at 4months i.e. far too early. Shows how different they are in different places.

omri DS prefers being fed with a spoon too I go with the flow, he adores his food and we are gradually introducing lumps/finger foods

omri DD would have a good bash at the sandwiches (gum them, get some off, throw some on floor, repeat) and stuff went in as stuff came out We didn't try with spoons at all though.

Newmummy you might find this book helpful.

I was given it and it was good for the "I wonder if she can eat..." type queries even though I was a pretty good cook by the time DD came along. I still use it now and again for stuff. It sounds as though you're not very confident at cooking (at 10 months they should just be eating whatever you're eating).

I constantly recommend this book which is recipes for adults but how to adapt them for children and babies.

But initially I'd recommend trying him with a bit of toast and butter cut into soldiers with his tea tonight and see how he gets on. The hardest thing is not panicking if they gag when they're just getting used to it.

My DS is 11 months but he has this:-

7oz bottle
Weetabix or toast with banana plus a fromage frais

Snack might be a couple of breadsticks and some more banana at 11ish.

Lunch Pot of homemade chicken or beef casserole
Hipp Fruit pot

3pm 4 oz bottle

dinner usually some pasta with sauce and veggies (or a mushroom omlette and beans at the weekend) but sometimes a jar or Hipp food if I haven't had time to make something (I work full time so DH feeds DS) followed by some fresh fruit (more banana and a few strawberries at the moment) and a fomage frais. He somtimes has a small treat of a biscuit or a minimilk lolly (if DD has one as he tends to scrounge).

7.30 7oz bottle.

I tend to make things in bulk at the weekend (like casseroles) and freeze or make a bit extra of our dinner for DS for a couple of days. Like yesterday we had salmon, so DS now has salmon fish pies for the next couple of days. Sometime I do feel like I never stop (I am out of the house for 13 hrs a day) but DS always enjoys what I make him so I do try to make an effort (although not always possible).

Dd is 10 months and has:

6:30am breastfeed (so no idea how much!)
7:15 1.5 weetabix with approx 3oz formula or bowl readybrek plus small portion of fruit
10:00 banana and water

1:00 lunch. Often toast with cheese/cheese spread/almond or peanut butter, chunks of cheese, some steamed veg. Sometimes has leftovers or previous nights dinner, hers or ours. Finished with fruit, usually pear or soft fruit

3:30 5-7oz formula. May have rice cakes or breadsticks too depending on when she had lunch and whether she has slept much

5:30ish dinner. She has pretty much anything we have. Last night was baked fish with new potatoes, green beans and sweet corn. She LOVES pasta do gets that quite a lot in various forms, cauliflower and macaroni cheese, bolognase, veggie sauces. Has an omelette at least once a week.
Meal is followed by fruit and yoghurt.

7:00 4-7oz formula

Hope that helps. I'm not a hardened BLWer though it looks like it from the above, but I have found the BLW cookbook helpful, and the river cottage baby and toddler one