How much ( spoonfuls) does/did your 8 month old eat per day/meal etc? Frustrated

[Tinker]

Reassurance please. My baby is just not interested in food. Or doesn't seem to be. Am I expecting too much? Eats about 3 to 4 baby spoonfuls per meal - on a goodish day, with lots of distraction sometimes. Fed up of hearing about these babies who eat everything.

My Dd is a week off 10 months and wont eat much more then that. She tends to eat a bit more at Lunch time but thats it. She is gaining weight and is a happy little thing so i don't worry.

Hmm, well that's why I'm getting a little (really only a little) worried because she'd lost an oz since being weighed 3 weeks earlier.

i wouldn't worry about weight and solids - at this stage it will mostly be fruit and veg anyway, not the most calorific of food. milk would be better at fattening her up. has she suddenly got more active/crawling?

Should add she does enjoy munching on bits of fruit between meals (perhaps that's why??)

She's very happy and mobile so am assuming she lost some weight due to that. But also hoped she'd get hungrier. Instead is waking more, feeding at night and refusing to have any milk at childminder's. Or much food.

was she weighed on the same scales both times?

Posts crossed then. Yes, she'll eat bananas and dried apricots. Just wish I could fast-forward this stage. The eating bit.

Tinker, think how much an ounce is and how much a big wee/poo weighs at this age.

Today, my 9mth old DS has eaten zero, zilch, nada, nothing.

On a good day he'll eat a good bowl full. Good days are few and far between. He wont tolerate finger food. AT ALL.

It happens. Just keep perservering i guess. Thats what im doing.

Same scales mts. One hv did ask if she'd been ill - not really, bit of a cold/sore throat so a bit off her food. Maybe? Hard to tell when she's not off her food. And never know if it's due to "teething"

Other HV not concerned. Me neither really. Yet.

hunker - that's what partner said, she was ready to fill a nappyful when weighed 3 weeks earlier!

VVVQV - that's reassuring

Then don't worry - the more you fret about it, the more she'll pick up on it.

I would say don't try distraction, just offer her bits of food when you eat and eat yours at the same time. She will get the hang of it, honestly. Milk should be their major source of calories for the first year anyway - I know it's bloody hard though.

DS wouldn't feed himself any finger food till he was 13 months! They tend to be able to feed themselves kebabs and chips by the time they leave home/go to Uni so a few months here and there won't hurt. And I think there is a lot to be said for a slower and more gradual weaning process than the 3 meals a day by 6 months brigade!

Agree with both of you it's just that am now back at work and the eating with her in the evenings just won't fit in. Am trying not to fret but rubbish lack of sleep is getting to me.

My dd (8 months) is exactly the same. I've found that often I get more into her if I don't put her in the highchair to eat, but just follow her round the room as she crawls around shoving mouthfuls in here and there! Its very messy and probably not the best for teaching social eating skills but She's just tanking up on milk at night and I'm exhausted!

Also find if I offer little bits of different things she takes more than lots of one thing, so tend to have veg, fruit, cereal and finger foods at each meal.

Does this sound like I'm setting up for really bad habits in the future though?

bobblehead = all sounds familiar, esp hating the high chair.