How much is your 8 month old eating?

[wigglemama]

I am just wondering how much other people are giving their 8 month olds to eat and when.

DD is still waking once in the night for a feed, which is fine, but she then can go up to 3 hours after waking before she wants breakfast.

If people wouldn't mind just giving me a quick outline of what times your dcs have bottle/breast feeds and solid feeds, I would really appreciate it.

xxx

8mo old BLW DS.

Wakes 5.30am for 7oz bottle (Not ideal, but we aren't overly concerned).

Breakfast 7.30am ish once everyone else is up. He will be offered toast/wrap something. Difficult to know how much he actually EATS rather than just gums and drops.

Bottle 11am - 7oz

Lunch l2pm (veg/fish/chicken)

Bottle 3pm - 70z

Tea 5pm (As before)

Bottle 7oz before bed.

I have definitely found that with a BLW baby he'll be hungrier different times/days than others. He's doing OK though.

HTH!

Every day is different, but more or less:

co-sleep and feed throughout night.

9.15am breakfast - e.g. weetabix, fruit

11.30 bf

2pm lunch - our main meal of the day,so e.g. casseroled meat and veg and pasta

3pm bf

6 pm bf

8pm supper - more snacky things e.g. rice cakes, cheese, yoghurt

bed about 10.30 with massive bf.

The short answer is - not very much - which sometimes gets me down, sometimes I feel calm about it! Beginning to panic more as back to work soon, DD doesn't take a bottle, so I was hoping she would be on more food then milk . On a good day-

6.30-7am - BF, play, BF, nap.
9.30-10am - couple teaspoons baby rice/weetabix & fruit puree, then offer BF, play, nap.
12.30-1pm - few mouthfuls of BLW breadstick, hummous, rice cake, cucumber etc, then offer BF on demand in afternoon.
4.30 pm - basically none of BLW meat, veg, sandwich etc, few mouthfuls yoghurt, play, bath, story.
6pm Huge BF
7pm Bed.

-ISH!!!

I'm doing purees and my 8mo has:

7.30am BF
8.30am BF and porridge/fruit pot (fairly small portion)
10.30am BF
1.30pm short BF then lunch (usually meat/fish and vege puree followed by yoghurt or fruit
4.30pm BF
6pm dinner (usually something like cheesey potatoe with veg)
7.30pm bedtime BF

No feeding in the night (at last!!!!)

DS2 is 8.5 months and his normal day is -
(all times are approximate)

6.30am - 5-6oz bottle of formula

8am - probably between 150g and 200g of cooked porridge (i.e. normal porridge oats cooked with cows milk)

mid morning - a couple of rice cakes (to be fair he doesn't really eat all of these instead alot just goes on the floor) and a drink of water

1pm - approx 150g of veg and pasta or rice etc which is textured i.e. very small lumps followed by plain yogurt mixed with fruit puree. (150g is the size pots i freeze the portions in)

mid afternoon - 5-6oz bottle of formula and a baby biscuit or a couple of Organix Carrot Stick things

5.30pm - approx 150g of meat or fish mixed with potato, rice, pasta etc followed by a Plums Fromage Frais

7.30pm - 7-8oz bottle of formula after his bath before bed.

no feeds during the night as I night weaned once on three meals a day

forgot to say that he also has water to drink with all meals

Thanks everyone, it's good to see what other babies are having. Think I may need to up dds lunch intake. Cies and FessaEst, no too days are the same for me either which is really frustrating, especially as she starts nursery soon and they're going to be asking what her routine is! My main issue was that she doesn't drink alot if milk, probably 15oz in a 24hr period. But i try to give her rice pudding, yogurts etc. I guess I just have to go with the flow!

My 8 mo 'ate' three b/feeds
2X250ml formula

At that point she ate about 600g food a day. I pureéd +/- froze all foods in 100g containers.

She would have a banana (100g) and a nectarine /peach (100g) as well as potato /rice (100g) and porridge (100g) and two portions of dinner - whatever we were having freshly made - say leek and chicken casserole with cream and onions and sage and garlic, or salmon with lemon and fennel - per day.

I would pureé portions of whatever dinner we were having and freeze and defrost these for her during the week so that her diet was balanced and included oily fish.

DD went on to eat one kilo (1000g) of food a day by the time she was 10 months - she self weaned from the breast at nine months.

I was always amazed at how much she ate, but she was a metre tall at two years, so she's on the 99th percentile of height for boys. She needed all that food it obviously.

Sometime between 5am and 7am - massive bf.

9.30am - large portion Ready Brek mixed with mashed banana and whole milk.

1pm - bowl of mashed veg and pureed meat or if we're out a pouch or pot. Fruit pot. Bf.

5.30pm - BLW meal - bread fingers, rice cakes, lettuce, cheese, anything else that's suitable and in the house. Give him 20 minutes, or until he starts screaming, to stuff as much as he wants down his throat and throw the remainder on the floor, then spoonfeed yoghurt. This used to be another puree/mash meal until a couple of weeks ago when started to refuse point blank to be spoon fed his evening meal (though he will take a yoghurt after).

7pm - big bf.

Very recently dropped a 4pm bf after he was taking very little at 1, 4 and 7. Feeds much better at 1 and 7 now.