What to feed 8 month old? When go introduce vitamin drops?

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I don’t give my baby vitamin drops as he has 4x8oz bottles a day so thought he gets enough from his formula. Or do I need to?

He’s nearly 8 months now, and has recently starting to drop his night feed at 3am.

He has ready brek for breakfast, some cream cheese toast for lunch and some sort of puree/pasta/meat for dinner. I am starting to make things to freeze as I find it a hassle constantly thinking of things to feed him and don’t want to go down the jar/pouch root.

What can he have for dessert? Is it okay to give natural yoghurt everyday?

I really want to drop a day time bottle. Do they eventually start preferring solids to milk?? as he absolutely loves him milk!!

Why do you believe you need to feed your baby vitamins? Have a balanced diet.

Your lunch is not great. Give him some veggies, an egg, some fish, a thick soup to make sure he has vegetables.
If you give him fresh food and not industrial food, he doesn’t need vitamins

My baby is almost 9 months and is only on 2 bottles a day.
1 in the morning and 1 at night and out a sippy cup in the afternoon.
She has breakfast and tend to mix it up everyday such as toast, purée fruit, yoghurt, ready brek, baby porridge.
Lunch and dinner is a home made meal I have blended such as broccoli, cauliflower and cheese, spaghetti bol fish pie, or ellas kitchen and Heinz sachet if I'm lazy plus a pudding.
She has snacks in between if needed.

(3 milks not 2)

Yes you can give them yoghurt, soft cheese and I mix her food with whole cows milk.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/vitamins-for-children/

The NHS recommendation is children age 6 months to 5 years are given a supplement of vitamins A, C and D everyday.

It recommends formula fed babies have this when they drink less than 500ml of formula a day.

Just take babies lead and make sure they still get enough milk.

As for vitamins, never bothered with my daughter who's now 5 and won't with my youngest. With a good, balanced, nutritional diet you shouldn't need them.

Why do you believe you need to feed your baby vitamins? Have a balanced diet.

Actually, I think it's now recommended that all babies who are getting less than 500ml formula should get vitamins as well. Apart from anything else, it's hard to get enough Vitamin D from food and most of us are not getting enough sunshine either. Once the OP's baby has less milk, it's probably a good idea to give vitamins.

I give Haliborange. In my case from 4 weeks, but my baby is breastfed.

You need to be increasing the food both in quantity and variety. A baby of that age doesn't need a night feed at all. DD has just turned 9 months and has
a bottle when waking
breakfast of fruit/toast/eggs or pancakes
mid morning snack
lunch with is usually sandwiches or pasta (always with lots of fruits and veggies plus some banana with peanut butter)
a bottle in the afternoon
afternoon snack,
Dinner of mashed up whatever we're having or tuna balls, cheesy pasta, broccoli and chicken etc. She usually has yoghurt for dessert and or fruit.

I always do a big variety and more than she needs as most won't make it to her mouth! I would recommend mixing up the toast with peanut butter and hummus to.

There were meant to be paragraphs there but oh well.

As PP have said it's NHS advice to give them - we started a bit late on them and my LO refused to go near them so I'd start them now.

Follow their lead on milk. As with PP, a bit more variety would be good - just watch the salt and sugar and they can have anything. I do savoury muffins as a way of sneaking veg in (especially ones he won't eat by themselves - broccoli mostly!), fruit with breakfast and lunch. He has full fat Greek yogurt most days with his dinner.

Hi OP

You don't need to be preparing special meals for a 9 month old - they can eat what you eat, as long as you eat a reasonably balanced and nutritious diet.

The only things you still need to avoid are choking hazards (whole nuts, whole grapes...), honey (until 1 year) and excessive amounts of salt, sugar or highly processed food.

If you eat at different times you can just save a little for baby to have the next day.

Is he eating any fruit or veg? It doesn't sound like it from your post. Plain yoghurt is a great food, any time.

BI

Yes sorry, he has fruit and veg. He has pureeed veg in this ready break, yoghurt and dessert.

He had scrambled eggs this morning, then brocolli with white sauce for lunch followed by pineapple and for dinner he will have pasta with tomato sauce and pineapple chunk yogurt for dessert.

I gave him some pepper finger food too but none of it actually got eaten even though he was putting it in his mouth.

Dinner is usually our dinner, I just struggle for lunch and snacks. But I will need to batch cook things I think.