3 meals at 6 months

[alakhx]

Hi ladies my DD is 6 soon to be 7 month
She is EBF and will not entertain a bottle
She enjoys food, finger food over puréed
I allow her to sit in her high chair and mess with food given and she will enjoy it.
People around me are trying to convince me to exclude a feed and give her a meal and Insist she should be having 3 jars of food a day
She will eat breakfast and snack throughout the day then will proceed to have an evening meal
Opinions please as I am unsure on the 3 jars a day thing?

If you are doing BLW then you aren't giving her jars. I would just do as you are doing, give her things to try at 3 meals but she may not eat them all but that's fine

Ignore the jars. At six months there was no way DD would have managed naps, playing, three meals, poonamis and milk feeds – not enough hours in the day. We just did breakfast to start with, finger foods, then as she napped less there was room for tea too. Fed on demand for milk and muddled through.

Who is trying to convince you to give her jars? Just do what you want and what your baby obviously enjoys, which is baby led weaning, and ignore the jar people.

My children were under a paediatric dietitian due to allergies (no weight issues)by they said 3 meals a day from 9 months unless you’re doing just blw in which case you can offer 3 meals a day earlier but you don’t have to.

@popcorndiva

If you are doing BLW then you aren't giving her jars. I would just do as you are doing, give her things to try at 3 meals but she may not eat them all but that's fine

Yes she always tries different things especially when I eat I give her bits of what I'm having and she definitely prefers to eat what I'm having over jars and purées. She never eats a lot but I think that's perfectly normal. Thank you x

@stuntbubbles

Ignore the jars. At six months there was no way DD would have managed naps, playing, three meals, poonamis and milk feeds – not enough hours in the day. We just did breakfast to start with, finger foods, then as she napped less there was room for tea too. Fed on demand for milk and muddled through.

Who is trying to convince you to give her jars? Just do what you want and what your baby obviously enjoys, which is baby led weaning, and ignore the jar people.

That's exactly what I do. Breakfast and finger foods I put different things out on her high chair for her to experiment she prefers that than been force fed a jar !

I've had 3 ebf babies, youngest is now 11m.
None of them would have eaten the equivalent of 3 jars a day at 6m. Tbh the 11m old has been the keenest on solids and he wouldn't reliably eat that now.

Don't drop milk feeds if that's what your dad wants (and you're happy to continue). Just add solids in as is convenient for you. We just gave ours what we were having unless it was messy and I couldn't be bothered cleaning up in which case they'd get bread and butter/tidier leftovers.

Just do what works for you

I don't see what jars has to do with it....who is telling you this? (Guessing a parent or in-law due to the mention of jars?)
At this age it's more about them learning to chew/how to eat, and how to manage different textures and flavours rather than how much they actually eat. Keep doing what you're doing! (Mine is 7.5mo and we do breakfast and dinner and breastfeed on demand in between)

@User0ne

I've had 3 ebf babies, youngest is now 11m. None of them would have eaten the equivalent of 3 jars a day at 6m. Tbh the 11m old has been the keenest on solids and he wouldn't reliably eat that now.

Don't drop milk feeds if that's what your dad wants (and you're happy to continue). Just add solids in as is convenient for you. We just gave ours what we were having unless it was messy and I couldn't be bothered cleaning up in which case they'd get bread and butter/tidier leftovers.

Just do what works for you

That's what I thought, how can a 6 month old eat 3 meals a day ! She can't even finish 1 a day. Even for breakfast I make her different things and she only tastes and has had enough

@Madmaxxy

I don't see what jars has to do with it....who is telling you this? (Guessing a parent or in-law due to the mention of jars?) At this age it's more about them learning to chew/how to eat, and how to manage different textures and flavours rather than how much they actually eat. Keep doing what you're doing! (Mine is 7.5mo and we do breakfast and dinner and breastfeed on demand in between)

Definitely! Thank you x

@User0ne

I've had 3 ebf babies, youngest is now 11m. None of them would have eaten the equivalent of 3 jars a day at 6m. Tbh the 11m old has been the keenest on solids and he wouldn't reliably eat that now.

Don't drop milk feeds if that's what your dad wants (and you're happy to continue). Just add solids in as is convenient for you. We just gave ours what we were having unless it was messy and I couldn't be bothered cleaning up in which case they'd get bread and butter/tidier leftovers.

Just do what works for you

You're right. There's no way she can eat 3 meals a day. And I'm not going to force her to eat if she doesn't want it. She's happy tasting for now

Exclusively breastfeeding here. She's 7 months and not eating a thing. Plays with it but doesn't put it in her mouth at all. It's all sensory play here which is fine. HV and local breastfeeding team have said food doesn't need to replace nutritional value of my milk until 1.

@Flittingaboutagain

Exclusively breastfeeding here. She's 7 months and not eating a thing. Plays with it but doesn't put it in her mouth at all. It's all sensory play here which is fine. HV and local breastfeeding team have said food doesn't need to replace nutritional value of my milk until 1.

That's what I've been told too. But then people I'm close to tell me that she HAS to be eating 3 times a day and all of it. I know this is not true and that she shouldn't be skipping any feeds as they do definitely need the same amount of milk until they are 1. Thank you xx

Unless the people telling you your baby has to eat 3 jars a day are medical professionals working in paediatric nutrition, you can safely ignore them. Babies ate fine before the invention of jarred food. Keep doing what you’re doing, and just smile and nod at the – in-laws? Parents? Grandparents? – and say, “Thanks, I’ll think about it.” They don’t need to know you’ll think about it for 0.1 seconds and carry on doing BLW.

My DS started well at 6 months with trying lots of different things, and then refused anything on a spoon (and most finger foods) for two months.

He started eating again at about 8 months and now has 3 meals a day (10 months). He can eat a whole jar in one go now, but it would have been way too much for him in one go at 6 months.

The main thing is to keep offering lots of different things, don’t get too worried about how much actually goes in.

@Flittingaboutagain

Exclusively breastfeeding here. She's 7 months and not eating a thing. Plays with it but doesn't put it in her mouth at all. It's all sensory play here which is fine. HV and local breastfeeding team have said food doesn't need to replace nutritional value of my milk until 1.

This is not entirely true. By 6 months babies iron stores are starting to dwindle so they need to have foods with iron in them as your bm won’t contain much. At 6 months you also need to start giving multiple vitamins too instead of just vitamin D drops.