To ask what you feed your 10 month olds?

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I think mine are still having too much milk and not enough food but I struggle to get enough food IN them Vs on the floor, or not rely on jars of o need to spoon feed them.

They have bottles at 8, 11.30, 3.30, 7, 11.30. 7 Oz each time but don't always finish them. Porridge or Weetabix in the morning unless we're out.

I'm way too old to have another baby, but I remember when DD was 10 months she loved mashed potatoes!!

Breakfast: Porridge - oats, breastmilk, frozen berries.
Lunch and Dinner: Usually whatever we're having (curries, Thai, noodles, sausage and mash, traybake, pasta, chilli etc). If I'm cooking for him separately (if we're having a takeaway or eating out or having something not great for him) then I'll do something like boil a carb (rice, pasta, couscous, potatoes etc), add a load of tiny cut up boiled veg (carrots, peas, cauliflower, broccoli, swede etc) and maybe a cut up sausage or piece of chicken. Mix it all together sometimes with some humous or pesto or something for flavour.
Snacks: cut up fruit and veg, mini sausage rolls, cocktail sausages, scotch eggs, pork pies, breadsticks, crackers, rice cakes.

I’m not sure I would want food after 35oz of milk- that seems excessive?! At one year they need about 12oz max.

I would offer food before 8am bottle

I would offer lunch and then combine the 11 and 3 bottles to one maybe half way through those times.

At 10 months they can eat most things, unless they are premie twins then I’m not 100% sure of the rules?

Oh, fromage frais! Loves them!

He has a 7oz bottle first thing in the morning and the same at bedtime. He has three full meals in the day, the as same whatever we’re having. So for example: porridge or scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast. Lunch might be a soup and bread rolls (feeds himself the bread we spoon the soup) or or sandwich etc then for dinner casseroles or bolognese or tonight it’s pie.

The only things he doesn’t feed himself are anything you’d eat with a spoon - if you would use a fork he’ll eat it with his hands. The only changing I’ve made to our cooking is no salt added and I make my own stock or buy low salt stock cubes.

My baby is 9mo so pretty close. I'm not that confident with weaning because I'm terrified of her choking but I give strips of toast with different toppings, grated cheese, yogurt, scrambled egg,
strips of fruit, avocado and cucumber sticks, porridge fingers and baby food pouches, though I'm trying to reduce them. I have the What Mummy Makes recipe book and follow her on Instagram, she has some great simple and quick meals.

I agree with PP to give food before milk - and you seem to be giving milk very regularly for that age. Try having DC eat with you at the same time and preferably the same food so they understand what to do. Give water at meal times (ours stops eating if he's thirsty but carries straight on once he's had a sip of water). Also don't be afraid to jump around - mine gets bored easily so will have a few mouthfuls of one thing and then want something else and then go back to the first thing.

@Shallow07

My baby is 9mo so pretty close. I'm not that confident with weaning because I'm terrified of her choking but I give strips of toast with different toppings, grated cheese, yogurt, scrambled egg, strips of fruit, avocado and cucumber sticks, porridge fingers and baby food pouches, though I'm trying to reduce them. I have the What Mummy Makes recipe book and follow her on Instagram, she has some great simple and quick meals.

Oh, yes, EGGS. SO many eggs!!

Mainly breast milk. Breakfast of porridge or toast.
Lunch of whatever we were having bunged on their plate and same with tea.
Snacks were bananas etc plus cheese.
Teething made a difference to whether they wanted more or less solids.

I'm following my 10 month olds lead when it comes to milk. He also has 7oz per feed and has recently dropped from 5 bottles to 4 - but he stopped drinking it, not I stopped giving it.
I'm happy to take our time, he'll drop more bottles and increase solids when he's ready.
Try not to worry too much about "should be".

Another one who would recommend what mummy makes book or account. My DD is 14 months now but I was giving her recipies from the book at 10 months. She loved courgette fritters, porridge fingers, savoury flapjacks best I remember. Also loved steamed courgette, banana with peanut butter (beware constipation and but allergy's) yoghurt, spelt (seemed to love this made as a risotto with tomatoes even though I thought it was gross). Another favourite mashed avocado with lemon juice on toast. I just tried not to worry about how much she ate and made sure she was sat down for two-three meals a day and presented with food. Sometimes she ate loads sometimes not.

That is sooooo much milk. It’s not far off what my 4 month old is having. No wonder they don’t want any solids.

At 10 months DS was only really eating finger foods as we didn't really introduce spoon feeding until a bit later. He generally ate whatever we ate, I just cooked without salt or sugar and tried not to make anything too spicy. Generally any of the below worked:

Cooked veg sticks, broccoli etc
Soft fruit
Fish cakes
Chicken
Porridge cooked thick so he could pick it up
Scrambled eggs
Toast with butter
Squares of cheese
Pasta

He did drink a lot of milk, but I couldn't tell you how much as he was breastfeeding.

Actually, my four month old goes longer between milks.

At 10 months old, my DD was still having mainly breastmilk but would have for breakfast a few strawberries & blueberries to pick at and some yogurt.
Lunch usually some fruit& veg like brocolli, tomatoes, peas, abit if cheese.
Tea usually a little of what we had and veggies.
DD 13 months now and diet still the same, still breastfed and prefers that mostly , but enjoys food, just not lots of it.

Mine is 8 months so slightly younger but her day is usually something like this.

Porridge for breakfast, 7 Oz bottle mid morning, scrambled egg and toast, puréed or mashed fruit, 7 Oz bottle mid afternoon, Ella's packet or maybe mashed sweet potato, with broccoli or carrot sticks, 7 Oz bottle before bed.

I do a mix of finger foods and spoon feeding now that she's getting better with lumps.

Another recommendation for What Mummy Makes Instagram or cook book. My DS is 7 months, some of his faves - broccoli fritters, baby pizza, courgette fritters, porridge fingers, 123 pancakes, blueberry pancake muffins, chicken noodles... all take less than 20 mins too.

Sorry, one of them screamed so I dumped my phone and hadn't realised it had posted. They have more then breakfast obv.

Pin wheels, pesto pasta, mini roasts with chicken breast. Food is all about taste and fun before 1 but at 10 months old you’d expect them to try most things.

We did roughly this
730 breakfast solids
Morning milk
Morning Nap 30mins
1130 lunch pasta, mash, veg, meat strips etc
Lunch nap 2 hrs ish
230 milk
Dinner 5
Bedtime milk 630
Bed at 7

@OverTheRainbow88

I’m not sure I would want food after 35oz of milk- that seems excessive?! At one year they need about 12oz max.

I would offer food before 8am bottle

I would offer lunch and then combine the 11 and 3 bottles to one maybe half way through those times.

At 10 months they can eat most things, unless they are premie twins then I’m not 100% sure of the rules?

It isn't always 35, so this morning C left a bit of the 8am, had maybe 3oz of the midday one, drained his 3pm one.

They weren't v prem, 4 weekd early but nearly 7lb. Now 25lb

@Albgo

I'm following my 10 month olds lead when it comes to milk. He also has 7oz per feed and has recently dropped from 5 bottles to 4 - but he stopped drinking it, not I stopped giving it. I'm happy to take our time, he'll drop more bottles and increase solids when he's ready. Try not to worry too much about "should be".

See I thought milk was still the primary calorie intake at this age, that's why we haven't massively dropped it. They've always had more than they "should" but they've been in 12-18 month clothes for about a month so they're decent sized kids

My DS has just turned 11 months and I tend to give him:

Breakfast:
Weetabix and a bit of banana

Lunch:
Bread/ toast with cream cheese or ham (cut into fingers)
/ scrambled egg
I also give him a chopped apple which he mostly just chews on and then chucks on the floor

Dinner:
What we have chopped small or I still blend bolognese and then give with pasta stars.
If it’s something he can’t have I give him a pouch with a bit of something he can have for ours (e.g pepper sticks out of fajitas)

He has 2 9oz bottles a day too.

Unsure of your routine but could you tweak all the meals so that they are having food before milk? That way you might find they eat more instead of it all ending up on the floor!

At 10 months mine was on about 3/4 bf feeds a day with 3 meals and snacks in-between. She would eat whatever we eat.

Breakfast - porridge, toast, eggy bread, pancakes, cereal. All with a side of fruit.

Lunch - usually a sandwich, with baby veggie sticks, cucumber, tomato, cheese sticks, fruit etc unless we have leftovers from dinner to eat

Dinner- big range of things including curry, shepherd's pie, pasta, chicken dinner, sausages. Whatever we fancy really! She will have a yoghurt for pudding usually as well.

She eats mainly with her hands but I spoon feed yoghurts. All our meals I try and limit salt intake as much as possible but other than that I let her try whatever we have.

Have fun experimenting and try not to stress too much, as long as your babies are healthy and putting on weight then you're doing a good job!

DS2 is 8.5m, he eats what we eat (usually cut into strips) and I'd say about half gets eaten/half on the floor. He feeds himself most of the time.
He's breastfed so I'm not sure how much milk he's having.

He eats whenever he sees anyone eating anything

Today he's had:
Breakfast: rice krispies (ate 3 spoonfulls then tipped the bowl over and fed himself with his hands) a strawberry and a bit of peanut butter bagel thin.
Lunch: had a go at a tuna bagel thin, sweetcorn (fed him about 4 spoonfuls), pepper stick (bit then ignored it), 2 raspberries
Snack: 2 blueberries (pre-squished) quarter fig.

DS is 16 months now, but at that age he was really in to 1) whatever I was eating, 2) Sweet potatoes and green beans 3) Anything on toast.

He still loves all these things. Especially anything that I'm eating...