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what time does your baby have breakfast?

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alibo · 01/12/2004 09:51

ds is 10 months and is still not fussed about breakfast. he wakes at 6am, usually on the dot for his milk, which he usually has 5oz-6oz of, and then goes back to sleep till about 8ish. even then, its one and a half hours since his bottle, he still doesn't seem keen. i can usually manage to get him to have fruit and yoghurt, but thats about it.

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OldieMum · 01/12/2004 09:54

Maybe he just doesn't like to eat soon after waking up. DD is like this. She is 22 months old and it's gradually become clear to us that she is not a morning person. Their personalities are all different, just like ours are, after all. It took me a while to accept this!

nicmum2boys · 01/12/2004 09:57

Mine are a bit older (4 and 17months), but they both never have been very bothered about breakfast. I normally try and make lunch as nutritious as possible because it might be the only decent meal I get down them, and it has always been this way. I think fruit and yoghurt is fine as a breakfast. I remember reading books that said they should have toast and or cereal aswell, but mine never have. Is he on finger foods yet? I find giving some cherios or other cereal as finger food with some chopped fruit a good way to get them more interested. HTH

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alibo · 01/12/2004 09:58

yeah, i've thought that too, but if i leave it much later it puts him off his lunch. he is still tired when he wakes for his bottle, and obviously wants to go back to sleep, and he's usually still out for the count when i wake him at 8. do you think i should try waking him earlier than 8?

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Bozza · 01/12/2004 10:01

DD has milk sometime between 5 and 7 am and then breakfast between 7.30 and 8 am.

OldieMum · 01/12/2004 10:01

I would just concentrate on getting a decent lunch inside him, then.

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alibo · 01/12/2004 10:03

sorry that was a reply to oldiemum!; nicmum2boys, i thought maybe if he had a better breakfast, he would sleep a bit later, as this is the meal where i feel he doesn't have enough to eat. his lunch and tea are fine, but he wakes hungry for his bottle at 6am, despite no going to sleep till 7.30 or 8pm.??

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alibo · 01/12/2004 10:04

bozza, does she go back to bed after the milk??

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nicmum2boys · 01/12/2004 10:06

Have you thought of cutting down the morning bottle, say give half, then breakfast, then the rest of his milk?

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alibo · 01/12/2004 10:07

yeah, i have given him only 4oz milk, and then he will still only eat same amount of solids, and then refuse any more milk after the solids!!

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bottle · 01/12/2004 10:18

mine is a milkaholic so get food first and then bottle which if he doesn't finish he finishes off in the morning - he has his breakfast at 7 or upon waking if that is later - once in a blue moon sadly

bottle · 01/12/2004 10:18

mine is a milkaholic so get food first and then bottle which if he doesn't finish he finishes off in the morning - he has his breakfast at 7 or upon waking if that is later - once in a blue moon sadly

bottle · 01/12/2004 10:20

what helped me with ds when he was having bottles at times i did not want him too was to give him a weak one, so if it was me would give him one scoop in four ounces when he wakes at 6 and then get him to have actual breakfast followed by the remaining milk

nicmum2boys · 01/12/2004 10:22

When you say you thought he might sleep later, do you mean in the morning? I'm not sure it would make much difference, as if he didn't have enough at breakfast he would make it up at lunch time I think. Not much help, sorry!

Stilltrue · 01/12/2004 10:35

My ds3 is 11m and wakes at about 6.30am; thankfully the 4.30am starts are becoming a thing of the past. I used to give him milk at the earlier wakings, but now i try to just get him up, distract him a few toys etc, keep him in his room until 7 or 7.30, when he is then hungry for breakfast with his 3 siblings who are getting up for school. I do the same at weekends, except nobody else gets up with me then. Ds3 likes buttery toast, a few bits of fruit, breadsticks etc. Sometimes he has cereal, but really now prefers finger foods. Not a massive breakfast, but then he has milk at around 9.30 after the school run, then settles down for a nap. That works for us. Why not try distracting him at 6.30, or do you think he is genuinely hungry then?

woodpops · 01/12/2004 10:48

DD hardly ever has breakfast. She just won't eat it even though ds sits and has a huge breakfast. Yet the stroppy little madam always eats brekkie at nursery!!!! So I tend to give her fruit and toast

OldieMum · 01/12/2004 11:31

I've just remembered that when dd was about the same age as your ds, we started to find it difficult to get her to eat breakfast at all (she still doesn't eat much, but she does eat). We substituted water for milk in the early morning and did not give her a first milk feed until about an hour after breakfast (so that she was hungry at breakfast time). This worked and we still do it.

Bozza · 01/12/2004 12:32

In reply to your question - if its 5 yeah she goes back to sleep but is not really ready for more milk when she does wake up. If its after 6 then she won't normally go back to sleep. She's only 6 months though and not sleeping through. For breakfast she normally has one cube of pureed prune and ready brek. And if I get round to it I will also give her a quarter/half a slice of toast. But thats more for practice/playing than nutritional value.

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alibo · 01/12/2004 12:59

thanks for replies; oldiemum, what times roughly then did you give the water, breakfast and then milk? and would she go back to sleep if she had the water very early?

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alibo · 01/12/2004 13:01

nicmum2boys, just thought a bigger breakfast is really the only way i could increase his overall calorie intake over the day, to enable him to last 12 hrs overnight, instead of 10.

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alibo · 01/12/2004 13:06

have never really thought to give hima diluted feed when he wakes, as by the time i've dragged myself downstairs, warmed bottle etc, its 6.30 anyway, which seems ok for him to be having his first proper feed. he obviously is hungry at that point ,as he then goes straight back to sleep.

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MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 13:07

Dd is nearly 8 months. I used to bf her at 6-6-.30 then she would not want breakfast til 9. Recently she has stopped breastfeeding, she simply wasn't interested anymore and I never replaced it. She has breakfast at 8 now and a bottle after.

vict17 · 01/12/2004 13:11

my 8 month ds has bottle at roughly 7am (sometimes earlier if he wakes at 6.30am) and then breakfast round about 8am and then he usually naps after that. He has half a banana and weetabix but today only wanted half of it. I don't make it into an issue and just chuck it when he;s had enough.

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alibo · 01/12/2004 13:12

mrsdoobaubles, love the name!! when does she wake, and what does she eat for breakfast? does she have milk straight after breakfast? ds seems to need quite a gap between milk and food or other way round.

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MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 13:13

My little beagle loves weetabix, so she sits glued to the bottom of dd's highchair waiting

MrsDoobaubles · 01/12/2004 13:16

Thanks alibo
Dd has breakfast then a bottle of milk two hours later, she doesn't want it straight after breakfast. Two hours later she will have lunch.
God help us if we forgot that bottle though!!!
She is eating really well, she has water at mealtimes.