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10 mo routine (food)

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decisionsdecision · 24/04/2020 21:41

My little one has just turned 10 months. I just wanted to ask what your routines were for your 10 mo in terms of feeding. Mine is as follows

7:45-9am - morning milk 7oz
12-1pm- porridge made with water
3-4pm - a purée pouch
6-7pm - 7oz milk
9-10pm - 7oz milk

Does this sound ok?

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decisionsdecision · 24/04/2020 23:34

Thanks all. Seems we've been going completely wrong! He's still good weight wise so at least there's that!
We will try and do better

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TooMinty · 24/04/2020 23:53

Don't stress, my HV said "food is for fun, until they are one". It's more about the social side, sitting up at the table and eating at meals. You still need to flex round naps. We had 11:30 lunch when they just dropped to 2 nap per day!

GiGi18 · 25/04/2020 00:28

I think you need to offer more solids even if they are rejected it's about exploring textures and tastes too. My girl wasn't interested for the first couple months (she'd cry and sick her thumb) but I kept offering and now she eats a lot and tries most things.

Today as an example

7.00am - Breastfeed
8:00am - two banana and apple muffins, full fat yoghurt mixed with half a pouch of fruit purée
10.30 - Breastfeed
12.30 - French toast with avocado, spinach and rocket and raspberries
2.30 - Breastfeed
3.30 - two teething wafers
5.00 - spaghetti and meatballs
6.30 - Bedtime breastfeed

Try offering tastes of what you have to begin with (without salt) and see how it goes.

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Thismummyruns · 25/04/2020 07:20

OP, I don't think there's right or wrong.
Just offer more and relax about the mess that will follow Smile

mynameiscalypso · 25/04/2020 07:51

It's not quite true that food is just for fun before one; there are some nutrients that they need through food (like iron) which are difficult to get through other sources. Learning the skills of eating (chewing, picking things up, swallowing) is also an important part of their development. So long as they're getting around 20oz of formula a day, they're not going to get malnourished but food is still important. Doesn't mean they always have to eat everything or eat massive amounts though!

Selfsettling3 · 25/04/2020 07:52

The NHS website has helpful info on weaning. At this age you should be offering 3 meals a day, all including fingers foods and including at least 1 source of protein. No snacks until one. Water offered with meals.

Are you all eating together? Since 5 months DD2 has sat in the high chair at meal times and we have her food from 6 months, sometimes she ate other times she just played with the food. It’s only since 8 1/2 months she really started to get food.

9 months and breast feed so milk feeds vary and sometimes she has more milk than this but this is an average day. She obviously doesn’t have all that food at each meals but I’ve included some ideas.

6.00 milk
7.15 milk
7.45 breakfast, chunks of fruit, toast and butter or peanut butter, cereal and oat milk (dairy, soya and coconut allergy)
10.30 milk
12.00 lunch sandwich egg or tuna, cucumber and pepper sticks, baked potato and veg chilli, sweet corn and courgette fritters and fruit purée.
3.30 milk
5.00 dinner bolognese sauce and pasta, chicken casserole and mash, curry and rice, salmon new potatoes and veg. More fruit purée
7.15 milk
10 milk
2.00 milk

Other than fruit purée which I hide her vitamins in nothing is blended. I do chop up kidney beans, chickpeas and prawns into small bits. Some days children get huge amounts and others hardly any.

decisionsdecision · 25/04/2020 15:22

So spent most of the day researching meal plans etc. Interestingly the NHS website states that babies under 12 months should not be having snacks only 3 meals a day 🤷🏼‍♀️ also that as long as they have 20oz of formula then that's all they need.

Seems that this is an absolute minefield!!

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dementedpixie · 25/04/2020 15:47

Mine did have a snack by then as they dropped their mid morning milk so I gave a snack and drink of water instead.

Think our routine was something like this:
7am milk
8am breakfast e.g. weetabix/ready brek with fruit puree
10.30am - snack and drink of water
12pm - lunch
3pm - milk
5pm - dinner (meat, veg, pasta, etc)
7/7.30pm milk

THNG5 · 25/04/2020 16:05

@decisiondecision I think that snacks do depend on the baby. I never gave snacks to my first and he was content but this baby is my third. She used to have formula at snack times but she could see her brothers having a snack and wasn't liking it! She's also very big and eats well.

I struggled with weaning with my second and my hv did say that food before 1 is just for fun but also that by 1, you should be aiming for food to take over from formula.

I agree with you though, there's a minefield of information out there!

mynameiscalypso · 25/04/2020 16:24

I agree that babies don't really need snacks although they may want one either because someone else is getting one or because there's something tasty on offer! I will sometimes give a snack of fruit to keep DS quiet if I'm trying to do something!

Thismummyruns · 25/04/2020 20:14

DD2 sees DD1 having a snack and would go batshit if she wasn't in on the action.
A snack could consist of a whole banana or just a few pieces of banana. Purely depends on how much bottle she has recently had (or not had, sometimes).

The afternoon snack is the biggie for us as she is hangry after her long PM nap, it tides her over until dinner time (and gives me a few minutes peace 😆)

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