Feeding a 9 month old

[MissT2095]

What do you feed your 9 month old and how much, how often?

My boys not dropping any bottles and is currently not enjoying being spoon fed.

I'd love to know your routine and meals

Hi, my 9 month old also doesn't like being spoon fed, much prefers to feed himself which makes it hard to tell how much is going in!
Today he's had:
6.30am milk (breastfeeding)
7.30am breakfast - half a weetabix with whole cow's milk and a bit of frozen berries - ate about 5 small spoonfuls maybe?
10.30 milk
12 lunch - finger food - cucumber, bread with spread and cheese all cut into bite size pieces. Very hard to tell how much went in, lots in his bib and thrown on the floor but he gnawed all the cucumber. I chopped up half a slice of bread but he probably ate a lot less.
2- milk
3.30 - snack - two mini gingerbread men (didn't eat all, I found some in his bib) and about 1/4 of a kiwi
4.30 - about 100ml of milk in a sippy cup.
5.30 - will give him fish pie for dinner, will cover the bottom of a dish about 10cm diameter but he won't eat all of it. Then a bit of plain yoghurt (tablespoon ish?) with maybe a bit of a fruit pouch mixed in
7pm - bedtime milk

Usually two milk feeds in the night but I'm not convinced he's waking up because he's hungry, more from habit and feeding him is the quickest way to get him back to sleep....

If he’s not enjoying being spoon fed, have you tried loading the spoon so that he can feed himself? How is he with finger foods?

Rough timescales-

7am 7oz bottle

9am Porridge

12pm Lunch (today’s was a scotch pancake, yoghurt and some cucumber sticks, other days a bit of home made soup and maybe a biscuit or melon stick)

3pm 6oz bottle

5pm Dinner (today’s was pasta with homemade tomato sauce, followed by a bit of a pear pouch)

630-7pm 7oz bottle

My DD loves her bottles, I don’t see how in a few months we will be giving up formula and using bottles - so will follow this closely to see what people say. If anything, I worry about the amount of liquid my LO gets as she hates water with a passion and takes the smallest sips, hence the need for Ella’s fruit-poo-producing-pouches!

And giving up using bottles **

I did blw. So slightly different. Mine didn't take an interest in food until I dropped his bottles myself (on advice of hv, he is a big boy).

Our routine now is
7am bottle (all 6oz)

9am breakfast (fruit + yog and either toast, porridge fingers, pancakes etc)

11am bottle (he sometimes doesn't want this one so I'll do his lunch earlier instead)

1pm lunch (anything and everything, he is loving omelettes and tomatos are his fave so he has tomatoes often. Sandwichs, rice cakes, left over dinner, Pitta, cucumber. Or if we are eating out whatever I'm eating)

3/4pm bottle (earlier if he skipped his 11am bottle)

5/6pm dinner (again what we are having with extra veg on side fruit afterward, watching him eat blueberries is hilarious.)

Not really sure where to go from here though in regards to snacks. Will be seeing the hv next week to discuss.

Oh oh course he has a bedtime bottle at 7:30.