8 month old eating habits

[M2AL]

Hey everyone my dd is formula fed but is weaning and doing well with food. Would you be able to share your little ones Feeding schedule and routine please.

7/7.30 wake up and bottle 7oz
10.30/11porridge/cereal
11-00 ish nap for an hour
1.30/2 either bottle 7oz or lunch. Ie scrambled egg and toast
2.30 nap for an hour
5.00 tea . Blended meal. Or food jar
7.00 bottle 7oz
7.15 bed .

Does this seem similar to anyone else’s. Would one to see other people’s routines and feeding schedules

Hi
My little boy is 8.5 months and goes a little bit like this:
4/5am- Bottle (Between 5-7oz)
6:30/7am- Baby Oats or Museli with 3oz Formula Milk mixed in
8amish- Nap
10am-Bottle (Between 5-7oz)
11:30/12:00-Lunch (Either Fruit maybe with avocado or Veg with meat Purree with Yogurt)
12:30ish- Nap
14:30/15:00- Bottle (5-7oz)
15:00/15:30ish- Nap
17:00- Dinner (Meat/Veg/Ella Pouch/Toast/Pasta-Anything like that)
18:30- Bedtime Bottle and Bed (7oz)

🥰🥰 Xx

My little girl is 8.5 months. Here is our little routine
6am - 6oz of milk (formula)
7am - weetabix with full fat cows milk
10.30/11am - 6oz of milk (formula)
12.00/12.30 - lunch this could be beans on toast, eggs, veg, a pouch with a yoghurt it some fruit
2.30/3.00pm - 6oz of milk (formula)
5.00/5.30pm - dinner whatever we are eating blended slightly.
6.30pm - bath
7.00pm - 6oz of milk (formula)
11.00/ 00.00 Dream feed - 6oz of milk (formula)

She doesn't have a nap routine, but she normally has 30 minutes in the morning and an hour or two in the afternoon.

Mine is almost 9 months. Today’s schedule was like this:

0700 - up. Breastfeed.
0730 - breakfast (Weetabix, fruit)
0930 - nap (anything from 45 minutes to 2 hours).
1015 - up. Breastfeed.
1200 - lunch (usually finger food, eg peanut butter on toast, cucumber sticks, pear, maybe some baby crisps or a baby biscuit).
1330 - nap
1445 - awake. Breastfeed.
1645 - dinner (mashed version of our food, occasionally a jar or pouch).
1800 - bath.
1830 - breastfeed and bed.
Multiple breastfeeds throughout the night.

For naps, he sometimes sleeps more in the morning or less, in which case he might sleep more in the afternoon. Or not! He has naturally fallen into something of a 2-3-4 routine (1st nap 2 hours after waking, 2nd nap 3 hours after waking from 1st, bedtime 4 hours after waking from 2nd nap) but can’t always stay awake for 4 hours.

We also struggle with naps around the school run - if his morning nap is later and longer than I’d like, it can be difficult to get him to have an afternoon nap if he won’t sleep in the buggy and then he’s grumpy over dinner and needs an earlier bedtime than I’d like. The optimum for him is about 2.5-3 hours daytime sleep and around 11 hours at night.

@ @Dexy2020 @MyCatReallyIsAGit @Wowjustwow99 do you think I’m going too long between dinner/ bottles ?
She isn’t crying because she’s hungry and is settled throughout the day? She is going to Start nursery soon so I’m wondering if I’m feeding her correct quantities and times in between x thanks in advance

My just turned 9 month old today;
7am - 7oz bottle
9am - porridge with prune puree mixed in
12:30 - Ella's kitchen cottage pie pouch and some baby crisps
2:00 - 5oz bottle
6:00 - baby pasta with home made sauce and cheese
8:30 - 8oz bottle

I really need to give her more finger food but am absolutely terrified of choking
She doesn't have a nap routine, she just has to fit them where she can around her three year old brothers schedule

My baby is nearly 8 months old.

7.30am - wake and breastfeed
8.30am - brekky, wheetabix or pancakes plus a yogurt
9.30 - nap for 1.5hrs
11am - wake and breastfeed
12pm- lunch. Something like cream cheese on toast, sweet potato wedges, brocoli omelette etc.
1.30/2pm - nap for 1.5hours
3/3.30 - wake and breastfeed
4.45 - dinner. Various. I've pre made a lot of dishes and frozen. Sometimes pouches. Fruit for dessert.
6pm- breastfeed, bath, stories, bed
Asleep roughly 6.45.
One feed in the night normally between 1am - 4am.

We had to work hard for that schedule. Was awful awful at 4 / 5 months. Multiple wake ups and terrible naps. We did some sleep training and it's much better now.

R.e. finger foods and choking. I was nervous but their gag reflex is so good. The food shoots out of their mouth so quickly if it causes them any problems!

I'm returning to work when DD is 10 months old. Unsure how to proceed with breastfeeding / milk if anyone has an advice? Do they drop a feed at some point? DD is on 70th% for weight and height.

OP if you can get a copy of the nursery routine and start edging towards that. I think it helped my dd settle as there was less over all change. It meant I had to begin her meals and snacks forward and then add an extra bed time supper.

7am ish - breast
8.30 am ish - bfast. Porridge with fruit mixed in or toast and avacado
10am ish. Breast
10am ish nap 45-1.30 mins
12 ish - lunch. I try to offer finger food e.g toast strips and egg/hummus . Or potato wedges and salmon.
2 ish. Breast
3 ish. About half hour nap
5 ish. Breast
6 ish. Supper. Sometimes pouch or homemade food cubes from freezer or what we are having
7.30 ish bed

Dream feed before bed

My twins are 8 months and our feeding schedule goes roughly like this:

7am - 7oz bottle
9am - porridge or natural yogurt with fruit mixed in
11am - 7oz bottle
1pm - a jar of baby food to share, followed by dessert to share if they finish it all (eg a fruit pot or rice pudding)
3pm - 7oz milk
5pm - some finger food if I'm feeling brave - also terrified of choking. Just something like a pile of very well cooked veg.
7pm - 7oz bottle followed by bed

I was trying to introduce a more regular nap routine and was putting them down around 10am and 2pm, but it seems to have messed up their night time sleeping. I have therefore gone back to letting them fall asleep on the floor whenever they like Far from ideal and how I will ever get anything done god only knows but seems to work much better for them!

@M2AL, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with your schedule, it’s all about what suits you and your baby, and they’re all different (as you say, she would probably let you know if things weren’t to her liking!). But the suggestion above about getting hold of the nursery’s schedule is a good one. Our childminder aims for a shorter morning nap, an early lunch, and a longer post-lunch nap before the school run.

My DS is my second and has to fit around my older one to a degree so often has pushchair naps or sleeps in the car (hence “today’s schedule” - tomorrow’s might be quite different!). Sleep tends to influence mealtimes for us and vice versa.

What I would suggest based on what you’ve said is to bring breakfast forward, to do a food lunch (again, maybe a bit earlier) rather than milk, and to introduce more finger foods. Start with nice soft stuff (well-cooked pasta twists, ripe pears, grated cheese, raspberries are great because they mush to nothing so you don’t need to worry about choking so much). I would aim for 3 meals and offer milk on waking, mid-morning (which will probably get dropped and/or replaced with a snack around one year), mid-afternoon (same) and at bedtime.

@EnidMatilda, in terms of breastfeeding, I found with my first that they tend to drop at least one of the daytime feeds around a year (but depends on the baby). I returned to work when DC1 was 9 months old and he was definitely still having two feeds during the day (mid-morning and mid-afternoon) because I would express at lunchtime for the first month or two.

Gradually, I think the morning feed was dropped and replaced with a snack and drink, and maybe after a year the afternoon one was. But we still fed first and last thing, and during the day at weekends on demand. Maybe I was lucky but my body just seemed to adapt in terms of supply and demand being more variable.

Mine have both been terrible sleepers and very boob-dependent at night, which I suspect may have contributed to my supply being fairly bulletproof.

What sleep training did you try? Did you find it worked quickly, and was it stressful for either you or DC? We are considering trying some gentle sleep training with DC2...

@MyCatReallyIsAGit

Thanks for the info r.e. milk. Maybe I will have a go at expressing.

We followed the steps in Lucy Wolfe's 'The Baby Sleep Solution' when she was 6 months old. It was fairly stressful and there were lots of tears but she was crying most of the night before that anyway so felt like we had nothing to lose. 2 months on, it's sooooo much better and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I think the game changers for us were not feeding to sleep or anywhere close to bedtime, putting her down awake and having a solid bedtime routine. Last night she slept for 13 hours with one feed at 3am - I feel like a new woman compared to 2 months ago. It was an overnight fix but things improved quite quickly. Downside is i feel trapped in the house as I'm a slave to the naps in her cot.

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My little one is 8 months old and today was like this

7am wake up breast feed
8am bran cereal with full fat milk
9.30am nap 30 minutes
10am breast feed
12pm lunch fruit toast, biscuit, cheese cubes, grapes.
2pm 45 minute nap
2.45pm breast feed
5pm dinner rice, chopped veg, etc.
7pm bath
7.15pm bed

Sometimes wakes in the night for a feed. Sometimes around 4am/5am then back to sleep until 7am.

Oh and breast before bed at 7.15pm