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Weening / 10 month routine

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Hopeful2654 · 10/11/2023 15:03

Hello, first time mum here just wanting a bit of advice / reassurance really and also wondered what other 10 month feeding routines look like.
Our current routine looks like this.
7.30 6/7oz milk
8.45 breakfast, often small
Morning nap
12.30 lunch - this is the time he eats loads. Often finger snacks too (mainly because we are usually out and so I can eat too!)
Followed by 2/3oz milk
Afternoon nap
4.30 6/7 oz milk
5.45 small dinner
7.30 4-6oz milk

Timings are very vague but that’s the pattern we follow. We have done this since he was around 8 months when we moved to 3 meals, he dropped a nap and also the dream feed.
I guess my question is really are we doing the right things? Should we be reducing the bottles - particularly the 4.30 one and replace with more food. We have always just taken his lead with how much food and milk and this is the pattern we have fallen into but I worry if the formula should be reducing now.
He sleeps really well, 2 solid naps and around 8-7 at night. Of course we have blips with this but generally good.
Would love to hear of other formula fed routines around the same age :)

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GingerLiberalFeminist · 10/11/2023 15:09

Half looking for advice as well...

My 10 month old has as follows

7am 50-100ml milk
Slice of toast, melon bit and half a banana for breakfast
9am 50ml milk
Nap for 45 min
11am 100ml milk (rarely drinks a full 150ml cup)
12 lunch is usually chicken or ham, tomatoes, cucmbr, those melty sticks and a satsuma
1pm nap for 2 hours
3pm 100-120ml milk
5pm dinner - food pouch plus green beans or carrots,
6.45 100-120ml milk and bed at 7

She usually wakes at 5am and has 50ml milk and goes back to sleep.

I'm concerned I'm not feeling her enough real food! Especially as she starts nursery next month.

GingerLiberalFeminist · 10/11/2023 15:11

I have disordered eating habits which doesn't help (no carbs, lots of protein/veg, problems with portion sizes).

Superscientist · 10/11/2023 16:04

At that age my daughter has
Breakfast 0-2 spoons of Weetabix or similar
10.30 3-5oz of formula then nap.
Lunch 0-3 small spoons of a pouch
2 3-5oz formula then nap.
Dinner a handful of peas or sweetcorn
Bed 8oz formula
Over night she has 1 or 2 bottles 3-5oz

She had absolutely zero interest in food until 13 months. We switched to formula at 10 months so we roughly followed the routine she had breastfeeding but usually one bottle on a period she would have had 2 feeds in.

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Bunny2006 · 10/11/2023 16:13

My baby is 9 months, she's not a great sleeper/takes a long time to settle as so I sometimes feel all I do is feed her and try and get her to sleep! Due to taking a long time to settle she doesn't get up early so usually we are:
8am ish - breastfeed
Breakfast soon after - varies could be rolled oats, apple and peanut butter, banana/egg pancakes, eggy bread with spinach, natural yoghurt and fruit, blueberry baby friendly muffin
Nap
1pm ish lunch - Philadelphia & veg fingers to dip, pasta from tea before, scrambled egg with veg, veggie muffin, sometimes with fruit like kiwi or orange slice
Nap with breastfeeding to sleep
6pm (I know this is late but due to the time taken to get her to nap and cook) tea - whatever I eat from a family cookbook so cauliflower gnocchi, butternut squash pasta, jacket potato and black beans, lentil dahl
7pm start bedtime lots of breastfeeding
Overnight 1-2 breastfeeds
Obviously only one of the meal options not everything I've listed together haha

calorcalorcalor · 10/11/2023 20:05

9 month old here - he's not great at drinking water so I offer 4oz bottle after each meal just to make sure he's hydrated! Still on 3 short naps too, not sure how to get these 2 hour naps I keep reading about!

7am: 7oz bottle
9am: Nap
10am: Breakfast - typically homemade fruity oat bars or fruity pancakes, baked oats etc
12pm: Nap
1pm: Lunch - orzo, pastry pinwheels, ommlete, frittata etc
3pm: Nap
4pm: Tea - veggie potato tots, carrot/cucumber sticks, toast, veggie muffins etc
7pm: 7oz bottle

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