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 :)

Heres a list of possible foods I might have fed my child through one week. Mine only ate very very amounts of these though. Mine was BF and so theres no formula included - just water in cups.

Breakfast - oatabix or porridge or other healthy cereal with milk in a cup and some fruit after. Mix of what ever we have in (oranges/grapes/apricots etc)

Snacks - bananas, other fruit, raisins, chopped up dried apricot, oat cakes, rice cakes, grated cheese, bread sticks,

Lunch - what ever I am eating - homemade soup or pasta salad. or wholemeal bread with tinned mackerel/tuna or marmite or egg. Some salad bits like grated carrot, a slice of cucumber with humus

Tea - what ever we are eating as long as its healthy and well balanced with veg, carbs and protein. Pudding - greek or natural yogurt with a bit of soft pair. rice pudding sometimes

Rusks are awful. Really unhealthy.

LST, you've just described my DD with pasta. Now you see it, now you don't! And she's on the 91st centile, no wonder why, I've never seen any demolish food like she does!

small amounts was going to say!

They should have a dinner date

How did you get on tonight OP?

Try not to worry about your meeting with the health visitor, your DS's diet needs to move on a bit (and ditch the rusks) but you are far from terrible ( I watched a baby eat chips out a mcdonalds box in their buggy a few months ago!!!)

My DD is 10mths too and today she had:

7.45am - 6oz milk

8.30am - 1 weetabix mashed up with 1/4 banana and whole milk

• she always has a 2.5hr nap in the morning so no snack -

11.45am - 5oz milk

12.15pm - ellas kitchen thai curry pouch and a very small (one adult bite!) fairy cake with a drink of water

2pm - rice cakes and strawberries and a drink of water

5pm - baked potato with low sugar/salt beans and cheese, yogurt and squashed plum with a drink of water

7pm - 6oz milk

DD is still on Aptimil stage 3 at the minute.

Hi Newmummy
Everyone who has replied seems to be doing really well with weaning. Maybe it's the people who are doing well that have been attracted to your post but seeing the responses has made me panic about my weaning. A lot of the mums I know with babies of 10 months are struggling to get their babies to eat various things so you aren't alone.
I would advise against the rusks, apparently it's 2 sugar cubes per risk.
Mine is a bit funny with eating. She loves toast or wheatabix for breakfast, any fruit mashed up, but the rest of it seems to depend on what mood she is in. I can't get her to eat veg as finger food. Fish fingers seem to work ok.
Good luck.

My 10 month old would happily eat anything. Was horrified to find her chewing a piece of wood earlier - don't know where she got that.

Generally, though, she eats what we or her big sister are eating BUT I still make up "meals" which I freeze in ice cube trays. Favourites are chopped (very small) chicken with chopped veg in cheese sauce and fruit purees which she has with plain yoghurt.

She also eats a lot of fruit, ripe pears sliced up, whole strawberrries, grapes - (have to chop these into quarters because of choking risk). She will also happily eat sweetcorn and boiled carrot strips as well.

I am bit rubbish at snacks so always carry a packet of Organix rice cakes. Probably a bit on the salty side but they are for her age range and she loves them.

Ella's kitchen are really good op. They are terribly expensive but my DS loves them.

My dd was 10 months on Sunday. Today she had:

8:00 - milk
9.00 - about 3 bite size weetabixes (i?) made soggy with breastmilk and a whole banana
10:30 - milk
12:00 - half a pitta pocket with houmous, some cucumber and tomato, and a peach
1:30 - milk
3:00 - a wee packet of raisins
4:00 - milk
5:00 - milk
5:30 - about half a fish finger, some carrot and broccoli, and most of a pear - she was faffing about alot
8:00 - milk
9:00 - milk
10:00 - more fucking milk, she's just fallen asleep again now

Expecting 2-4 night feeds as well (she's bf). She is the biggest baby in the world, ever - 28lb 7oz when weighed 2 weeks ago, the HV was like and said I must cut down her milk feeds. Am ignoring and feeding on demand atm but if she keeps growing at this rate I might need to put her on a diet!

By about 10 months we moved into. Regular porridge. At 14 months dd2 still loves it daily.

Quick meal is scrambled egg and toast.

Agree check out weaning thread. tend to love veg and red lentil daal too.

Have been thinking since I last posted and realised we have all mostly told you what our DC's eat and not how we go about making the meals etc.

Are you are using mainly jars because they are easy and good portion sizes etc? Let's face it we all do from time to time (my personal downfall is ellas kitchen pouches if I forget to defrost something before I go out). You could do with a basic weaning kit, I use ice cube trays, small one portion pots with lids like these and freezer bags. Other than that a masher and fork are all you need at 10mths.

Try to cook a family meal for you all with no salt (you do get used to it!) and freeze leftover portions in the pots with lids. I find that spag bol, chicken and broccoli puff top pie, cottage pie, sunday roasts, steamed sausage and veg etc work really well and by making just a little bit extra I can freeze 2 or 3 portions for the little one and have them to hand if the rest of us are having something non-baby friendly.

Ice cube trays are handy for freezing fruit to add to yogurt porridge and can be defrosted in seconds. When you have frozen a trays worth just pop them out into freezer bags and you have a ready supply.

Ripe fruit is great mashed with a fork (plums, peaches, bananas, berries etc) as are avacado's (my DD loves them!). I also use a nuby food net for larger pieces of fruit and frozen fruit (good for teething or hot day).

If I am in a real hurry at dinner time then things like a baked potato, beans and cheese (tonights dinner!), one egg scrambled with a slice of toast and good old fish fingers are fab!

Hope this helps.

Dd is 14 months & has CMP allergy so is strictly dairy free:

Breakfast: weetabix, ready brek or porridge. Fruit.

Lunch: casseroles, stews, spaghetti bolognaise, jacket potato, chilli, mild curries, pasta in sauce. Served with veggies

Supper:
something on toast: peanut butter, fish pate (homemade), jam or honey (occasionally), scrambled egg, beans.
Fish cakes (homemade) or fish fingers.
Omelette

Pudding: fruit, soya yoghurt- pain with fruit mixed in usually, occasional soya custard.

Snacks: fruit, cucumber sticks, organix/Ella's snacks, raisins, homemade (sugar free) biscuits etc

Belmo wow! My DD, almost 9 months is 19 lb!

Sorry that should say DD almost 15 months. Doh!

Thank you all for your support! Dinner was a disaster, I made him pasta with chicken, Broccoli, Tinned tomatoes and herbs and he refused to eat it. After an hour of encouragement he became very distressed even just seeing the spoon. We gave him sips of water and he was fine taking the bottle but cried after about a sip; so in the end I just gave him a bottle of milk. Breakfast this morning was porridge and fresh strawberries, I left some on his highchair and he didn?t even take any notice of them, not even picking them up. He refused to have the porridge and started crying when I tried to feed him, He wouldn?t even take the spoon to try and feed himself so again I just feel like giving him a bottle.

Any suggestions? I really don?t want to stress him out.

Ok, my first suggestion would be to go over to the weaning board and get some ideas. Read lots of threads and see what suits you and your baby. Some people swear by BLW (basically what you did for breakfast - leave the baby to eat what he wants) and others are more puree based and yet others do a mixture depending on the day/where they are etc.

Question : did you puree the pasta etc. or just offer it in lumps? My DS has been eating solids since he was 5 months old and he is only just accepting some lumps (he's 9.5 months)

I think I read somewhere that you shouldn't make meal times last longer than 20 or 30 minutes (can't remember which). otherwise it just becomes stressful for everyone involved, when it should be fun and relaxing.

Again, DS loves his solids but if I leave food on his tray he either ignores it or crumbles it. He rarely puts any of it into his mouth, despite everything else he can grab hold of going straight in!

I found that singing songs to DS made him happier to eat. "This old man, he played one" was great as it helped me count the spoonfuls in!

Ermm trying to think of other suggestions - I'm sure someone else will be along with better advice!

Have you started out with very basic purees? Just one veg or fruit per puree? We started very simple then added more flavours. Sweet potato was a huge success in the early days.

Oh and DS refuses to hold his spoon too even if I'm guiding the food in.

Newmummy, I am guessing that he is now so used to very sweet things that it may take a little time to adjust to a less sweet diet. Humans are pre-programmed to like sweet and fatty foods, it's a survival instinct from the days when hunger and starvation were very real risks.

Try not to turn it into a battle ground, just put the food in front of him and let him feed himself. He won't starve if he misses a couple of meals as he should still be getting the vast majority of his nutrition from milk until the age of 12 months.

If he doesn't eat the food, don't stress, just carry on eating your meal, then tidy away the plates and just offer more food again at snack time.

Oh newmummy, sorry to hear it has been so stressful so far :(

My DD is only just beginning to pick up food and actually eat it for herself (10mth). She will only really pick up toast, rice cakes, bread sticks etc.

Perhaps try crushing the strawberries into the porridge next time as it sweetens the taste and adds a new texture.
I still use baby pasta as it is so small and ideal for 'little lumps', you could puree the sauce if that would help. DD likes parsnips and apple combined to a mush with chopped chicken... too sweet for older kids but she loves it! (both are great to use out of the ice cube stash).

Remember he will not starve if you keep going for a few days. Good luck.

I would just change one meal at a time for now, so perhaps start with dinner and offering him a butty or toast with some fruit/veg and when he is happy with that then start on other meals.

I wouldn't worry too much about the milk for now, for under 1s milk is still supposed to be their main source of nutrition perhaps just start to reduce the amount you offer as he starts to eat more

Newmummy, I really think the HV should be giving you some guidance and advice on this.

Weaning can be a really stressful time for so many reasons. It's one thing for her to tell you that his previous diet was unacceptable (and tbf, she was right) but without giving you some constructive advice about how to approach it, what to give, what to expect, how to react...

She was really setting you up to fail.

I agree, get yourself over to the weaning board and good luck.

I don't know if you followed the link I gave to the book of recipes for babies and children, but there really are some good ideas in there which might get him more interested in food.

I used it quite a bit for DD and there's not much she won't eat now.

Good luck. x

I blended his dinner last night into a puree because he refuses lumps so I made sure that it was a smooth texture for him, I did mash the strawberries up in his porridge this morning and it didn't make any difference :(

Shall I cut down on the bottles and just skip a meal?

I am going to make him mashed potato with beans and offer him some fruit at lunch so we will see how that goes.

If he doesn?t eat that should I then give him a bottle? I don?t want him to go without any food.

My Dr said don't offer milk if he won't eat his solids. I couldn't do that - all you'll do is have an unhappy hungry baby and an unhappy mummy!

I read somewhere else to give a bit of milk first to take away the immediate hunger (so baby isn't frustrated by being so hungry and unable to eat IYSWIM), then try the solids as a sort of fun game. But not to worry if the baby doesn't eat much at first.

NewMummy
Thank you for starting this thread, I've got 10 month old twins and it's been interesting as weaning is quite slow going for us too for different reasons (premmies, milk allergies etc).

Main thing I would say is DO NOT STRESS! Sounds easier than it is, but it doen't matter what your child is eating as much as if meal times are fun rather than a battle ground. Just keep putting bits and pieces on the high chair and some he'll eat some he won't. We tried berries this morning - DD loved them, DS refused to pick up and eat any. Different strokes an' all...

You now know you want to try and move things on, but just baby steps, don't try and change his diet all in one day. Good luck!