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10 month old food portions?

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NelliePig · 25/04/2021 21:59

How much food should a 10 month old, who is drinking 18oz of formula (which I know is on the low side, but we have just stopped breastfeeding and that's all she will take, but has 2 daily snacks 1 which is usually a yogurt or cheese based snack) be eating?
She will happily finish a 10 month sized baby jar and she would eat dessert too if we left her.

Typical daily diet is along these lines...

7.30am 8oz bottle of formula.
8.30am Bowl of muesli/porridge made with cows mill. I'd say around size of a 6 month jar.
11am snack - custard, yogurt, grated cheese, eggy muffin type thing. Think ski yogurt sized portion.
12.30pm lunch - I usually do around 150g of lunch, pasta, mash and veggies etc
3.30pm 4oz bottle and some finger foods (usually gets gagged out and thrown on the floor, wee dot has a rather sensitive gag reflex still)
5pm dinner - same as lunch but usually meat or fish based, plus she will then sometimes have a little fruit pot, or a fruit wafer etc.
7pm - 8oz bottle.

She would eat a full 10 month jar full size if we let her and then she would still eat a desert if we let her, but I've tried googling and cant actually see the reccommend 'g' sizes for portions for meals and snacks.
Am I over feeding her, under feeding her? Do I feed her what she eats.
What's this mysterious turning head away from spoon which we've never had!?

She was born, has stayed on and still is now 75th centile, just over 20lbs at just 10 months.

Sorry for the long post, but first time worried mum 😅
Thanks!

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EnglishRain · 25/04/2021 22:40

My 9 month old gets a fair bit less. She's on three meals most days but no snacks, and is breastfeed.

Breakfast - weetabix or toast or pancakes with fruit
Lunch - savoury muffin or similar and fruit or cucumber sticks, grated cheese, natural yoghurt
Dinner - chicken risotto or fajitas etc

Has a feed in the morning, before morning nap, afternoon nap, and at bedtime

NannyR · 25/04/2021 22:47

If you Google a website called the caroline walker Trust, there are some excellent resources with photographs showing appropriate portion sizes and what a balanced diet looks like for babies and children.

De88 · 26/04/2021 00:21

I think its difficult to recommend an amount for a 10 month old as they're all so different! But mine have all just been on 3 meals a day at this point, no snacks. You're amazing, I don't think I could ever find the time even if mine did need them!

My current 10 month old has 9oz of milk about 7:30am, 3 of which go into weetabix or ready brek with some fruit then she drinks the remaining.

She has lunch somewhere about 11.30-12 with a cup of water. She just has whatever anyone else is having, we tend to have quick and easy lunches like a slice of toast and scrambled egg, pan fried gnocchi, oat pancakes with whatever veg I find grated into the batter, filled pasta, dumplings followed by fruit. This is usually her big eat of the day, but sometimes she will just pick and poke like currently she's teething, but she usually makes up for it at the next meal, or some point over the next few days.

Dinner tends to be about 5-5.30pm again with a cup of water, tonight was a roast chicken with veg and roast potatoes followed by yoghurt.

I always get some dairy into her too so either after lunch or after dinner, prob the equivalent of a 4oz full fat Greek yoghurt with fresh fruit, cheese, rice pudding or whatever.

After dinner it's bath, 9oz milk which she tends to finish, then bed.

So overall in a day she's still having about the recommended milk in a day counting in other dairy.

We don't think about how much she's having, we just put it in front of her, if she eats it cool, if it goes overboard we don't worry so guess portion sizes are sometimes pretty big, other times not. Our other two ate the same way and they are fine too.

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De88 · 26/04/2021 00:28

-not sure what weight she is but development wise she's right where she should be, sleeps well and is a very happy baby. We just leave her to eat until she loses interest, I think if your baby is happy to keep eating at mealtimes, then keep feeding as she will let you know when she's had enough.

NelliePig · 26/04/2021 13:03

Thanks everyone!! I'm going to worry less then and just keep doing what I'm doing! :)

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