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 :)

I was also going to say that, if he isn't used to 'lumpy' food and does gag, then don't panic.

Just say "oh dear, it's ok" with a smiley face (however "ARGH!!!" you're feeling!) and "I don't know, that silly banana! What a funny thing" or whatever so that he knows it's nothing to panic about either.

Some food issues are created at this stage because parents (understandably) panic and pass the fear of food onto the children.

My HV told me the gagging is a good thing as they are learning what they can and cannot manage and so over time it lessens. My DD hasn't done it for ages but then last night gagged on water

I do think every baby is different. My friends 10 month old will choke on anything not mushed, and will always choke on finger food.

I think if he's thriving, you're doing just fine.

Ds is just turned 9 months average days goes

7.30 am - 2 weetabix with banana

10.30 am - snack usually a breadstick or a biscotti

12.15 - lunch is ham sandwich, few cubes of cheese, yogurt, chopped stawberries

3.30 pm - snack - usually fruit or maybe oraganix snacks

5.30 pm - dinner is whatever we are having so pasta, curry, spag bol etc followed by yogurt, custard etc

7.00 pm 5oz milk then bed

Thank you all so much for the replies! I have loads of ideas from you all and it has made it alot easier for me to see what foods he should be having.

I felt like the worst mum in the world when the HV was explaining what he should be on/had by his age.

Ill give him what me and DH are having tonight and see how it goes :)

I used Annabel Karmels baby and toddler meal planner book for my DS and DD, several years ago now. Loads of really great, simple and cheap meal ideas that you can make in batches and freeze - Cauliflower cheese, spinach and pasta, spanish chicken, fish bake and lots more plus I used to make extra of our our meals and freeze to use later.

When they initallys starte weaning (memory is hazy on exact ages!) I would cook up big batches of single veggies and fruits freeze in icecube trays and just pop out to defrost much cheaper than buying jars and uses up and spare fruit and veg that you might have.

Saying that I always had a couple of jars in the cupboard on stand by and there is always a box of fish fingers in the freezer now, can't always be the perfect mum! ;)

our 9mo DS has moer or less the same as other posters DC:
breakfast: weetabix/porridge
lunch: pasta/cottage pie/casserole type meals with finger food veg
tea: filled pitta bread/sandwiches with fruit and yoghurt
snacks are toast or fruit

tbh though i can see our hv having an issue as he eats very little of what he's offered, and the last time we saw her she said he doesnt eat enough. i'd like to see her come round our house and try to feed him, short of forcing him (really bad idea) i dont see what else we can do. he'll take it when he's ready, which i hope is sooner rather than later

Don't understand whats wrong with porridge tbh...
Rusks aren't good really..very high sugar content.
Perhaps swap rusks for rice cakes? Or cut up/mashed fruit?
I would also stop using jars for puddings...give him fruit/from age frais/rice pudding etc.
Also, what jars are you using? I used hipp which I thought were very good and organic which I liked.
Re: dinner..can you mash up what you are having? Stop using salt and it will be fine. Even now I freeze extra mashed potato and veg in small pots in the freezer so I have some home cooked food when I don't feel like cooking...

Yea I used annabel kernel too...very good.

Yeah, actually, by 10 months I had adjusted what we were eating, not my baby (lazy). So we ate quite a lot of things like shepherd's pie, fish pie, stews etc. which were then whizzed up a bit in the food processor.

I did, very rarely, make some of that Annabel Karmel stuff, but I had gone back to work by then so realistically couldn't be bothered. So I made us meals and he had the leftovers the next day.

Somebody gave me a hot tip about gnocchi (who knew?) which was the idea of genius. Speedy, working mum food. Just heat up a bit of pasta sauce (cough. On a few dark days, I was known to use philadelphia and peas) and add it to the cooked gnocchi. My baby wolfed it.

For snacks, bizarrely, we found that he really liked cold cooked veg like celery or broccoli.

Don't feel bad OP. Each baby is different and each baby brings its own trials for mum . Not all 10 month old babies eat lots of solids.

My DS is a sicky baby and an awful sleeper. But eats brilliantly. A couple of friends have asked in desperation how on earth I get him to eat solids but I can't give them tips cos he accepted a spoon very easily! On the other hand, their babies sleep through the night....

Blimey no need to feel bad! Mumsnet has given me all the answers to my baby questions, I'd be hopeless without this place.

Other things my DS (now 18mo, gosh) has always liked:

Blueberries and raspberries
Those cow as gate whole fruit pouches
Babybels
Rice cakes
Cheese on toast
Omelette - cheese with peas is easy
Mashed potato with baked beans
Filled ravioli from sainsburys
Some of the annabel Karnel recipes
Tuna sandwiches
Avocado on toast
Roast chicken

Good luck :)

Dd is 7mo and she has
7am - milk
9am - baby porridge mixed with sma, an orange (I cut it into chunks with skin on and ahe gnaws away at it), sippy cup water
11am - milk
1pm - brocoli, tomato, whatever other veg I have around the house, mini yoghurt, sippy cup water
4pm - milk
5pm - bit of chicken or fish and potato wedges, sippy cup water
7pm - milk and bed.

She has everything as finger food and pretty much spoons her own cereal in I just load the spoon. I do the yoghurt othersiwise it gets into her everywhereness.

Maybe portion up whatever you have for dinner to serve the next day.

Best thing I ever bought was a cheapo microwave steamer. Its tiny and I put in brocoli, carrots, baby sweetcorn etc.and two mins later done and shes eating.

At that ages, DS would have been having 210ml bottle of milk followed by a mashed up weetabix for breakfast, a kind of mashed lunch - veg purees with chicken or fish, pasta and some kind of sauce, shepherds pie, fish pie etc - mashed fruit (apple or banana usually) around 3pm, then toast with scrambled egg or something similar followed by fruit puree and yogurt for dinner, then a 210ml bottleat bedtime.

I used Annabel Karmel's baby & toddler cookbook for weaning, but after about 10/11 months I pretty much started feeding DS mashed up, less salt/spice versions of what DH and I eat.

I was like you and fed my baby jars but have just switched to proper food and it's much better. She loves it. I used the book recommended by FolkGirl and my DD is 10 month old. She loves eggy bread, toast, petit filous and natural yogurt, fruit (banana, apple, cherries cut up small) cucumber, and I've started giving her the same as us in the evening so she's had cod and roasted vegetables, butternut squash risotto etc, I just wizzed it in the food processor to make the lumps smaller. She has baby weetabix and full fat milk for breakfast - wouldn't eat it until I had weetabix with her and then she was fine!

DS is 9.5m. Have never given jars, quicker and cheaper to give normal food.

7-8am 8oz SMA
8-9am porridge oats, 4-5oz cows milk. 1 whole banana he eats himself
12pm sardines mixed with tomatoes in a sandwich - feeds himself. Fruit he feeds himself.
2pm 6oz SMA
5pm Any dinner really. If its something he can feed himself then great, if its stew or salmon in sauce (homemade) I spoon feed whilst he self feeds vegetables. natural/greek yoghurt.
7.30pm 7oz SMA

What, exactly, is wrong with jars?

I understand breast milk versus formula milk, they're chemically different.

But FFS food is food, whether it's prepared and cooked by me or by Mr Hipp, a squash is still a squash and a sweet potato is still a sweet potato.

DS has always just eaten what we eat (as did dd). He's 10mo and today for example he had porridge for breakfast, poached eggs on toast, strawberries, cucumber and carrot for lunch and chicken casserole for dinner with yoghurt for pudding. He breastfeeds to demand still (and he demands rather a lot).

My DS has;

9oz C&G
Bowl of porridge with full fat milk for breakfast.

12.00pm
Dinner.. Could be anything from casserole to cottage pie ect.

3.00pm
9oz C&G

5.30pm
Tea.. Whatever we have

7.00-7.30pm
9oz C&G bottle

He also has snacks and juice it water throughout the day too; fruit, rusks, rice cakes, finger foods etc..

He's 8mo

HTH

We still spoon feed DS dinner and tea and his yogurts. But we don't mush it up any more.

wow LST - thats a lot more than my (91st centile) 9mo has! Goes to show they are all different :)

How did dinner go, NewMummy?

He's 98th he's mahoosive! He doesn't stop!! I've never known a baby like him. He won't turn anything away.

We gave him a Yorkshire pudding with his Sunday dinner and we thought he'd dropped it.. But no. It'd gone to the abyss that is my child's belly..

Me and DP are tall though.. ( that's what I keep telling myself..)