What are your 13 month old children like with food/milk?

[Tinkjon]

We're going on holiday in October and DS will be 13 months then. Obviously all children are different, but any ideas what I can expect him to be like, food/milk-wise? He's FF so will be on cow's milk by then, but is he likely to want milk feeds in the day or are they usually onto just waking and bedtime milk by then? And can I expect him to use a cup competently by then? (he can pick one up now and have a good suck from it, but it spills all down him). As for food, he's mainly BLW but eats very little - what he eats at the moment wouldn't be enough to sustain him all day without his milk. Is he likely to be that different in 4 months time or are they usually eating proper filling meals by that age, rather than just nibbling/experimenting?

Basically, I'm hoping very much that we can just do morning & bedtime milk from a cup and then just have food & water throughout the day - do you think that is possible by 13 months? (I have a DD but she's 5 now and I really can't remember what she was like when she was 1!)

Hi - for comparison my ds is almost 14 months - he has 8 oz bottle still morn and eve and a straw type cup with water during the day. He eats 4 times a day - cereal in morn, toast mid morn, lunch, tea. He also has snacks - raisins, fruit, cheese, the odd choc button, rice cakes, buscuits. It's hard to say how much he'll eat in a meal - sometimes if we're out he'll eat about two thirds of a 12 month size Hipp jar. At home he has the same as us - sometimes he's happy to pick it up as it is, others (at the mo he's teething) he prefers it roughly chopped up and spooned in. Oh, and he usually polishes off at least 2 petit filous a day. Hope thats an indication - though as you say they are so different.

Its a tricky one but if your ds is anything like mine he will still be having 3 bottles of milk a day at 13 months. We also did BLW (which comes in to its own when on holiday, no jars, mush or gloop to worry about!) and I found that it seems to have taken him longer to drop his mid day milk than others his age and even now he asks for it occasionally (he's 16mths now). Food wise he was definately eating more by his first birthday but still needed his milk and was using his cup competently at this age too. He uses a bottle in the morning and night and used his tommee tippee cup during the day for either milk or water. HTH!

Thanks, both of you, that was helpful. I guess he will be able to eat better/more when his teeth come through - at the moment he can't seem to gum anything very well.

Tink, ds2 is 13 months and is blw, he has milk when he wakes, at 11am before a nap and at bedtime. He takes both water and milk from a cup, he sometimes goes without the 11am one if we are out and about.

He is also blw, if out i share out between mine and the other two dc's food and there is always enough for him and he is a BIG boy!

However his back teeth are coming through and he is definitely getting more picky and choosy. So snacks mid am and pm are always needed. HTH

Thanks, margaritas, I am hoping that this is what DS will be like then!

Mind you, the holiday is to Disneyland Paris so I dread to think what sort of food he will be eating

ds is 13mo and eats like a horse. still has milk three times a day (morning, bedtime, afternoon) but has missed daytime milk sometimes and seems ok as long as there is a substantial snack instead (usually something dairy to make up for it like yoghurt or cheese, plus raisins or similar)
he can drink from a cup but it goes everywhere (sippy cups are fine). he eats more or less what we eat (with added bananas....)
One warning: he is adamant he now wants to feed himself the whole time but lacks competence to do it, and i think that's pretty common at this age. so mealtimes can often be a loooong messy process with him refusing to eat from a spoon - he prefers to do the spooning himself - and then looking puzzled as most of it goes on the floor.