is this a small amount of food?

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my 7.5 month old daughter (1 month premature) 'only' has 17-20ozs milk a day and 2 spoon feeds (redy break mid morning and 4-5 cubes of chicken/veg/potatoe for dinner, maybe a yogurt at lunch)

does this sound like a little amount? she shows no signs of wanting more, and infact doesn't take this amount easily....my question is: is this a 'small' amount of food? she weighs 18lb.

i have no comparison except myself and i eats loads, i just don't know if the seemingly 'small' amount of food is actually a lot/average for them?

when she's unwell she eats even less

sounds ok to me, from what I do anyway. my dd is about 19 or so lbs and she's 11 months. She has about the same amount of milk, weetabix for breakfast. 3/4 to 1 jar (stage 2) of food at lunch and 4/5 cubes of homemade in the evening. She also has fruit and petit filous each day.

or maybe i'm not feeding dd enough? would be interested to hear too

My nearly 10 month old doesn't eat a great deal more than that now over the course of a day - 3 meals of approx 5 cubes per meal, plus yogurt and a banana and some dried fruit. Hardly anything for whole of last week since she was sick. If she hadn't been sick I think she would be around teh 18lb mark now, if that helps.

BUt she doesn't didn't take to food at all until about 8 months, so your little one is taking a lot by my little one's standards. Wouldn't worry.

sounds fine to me for a 7.5 month old. if you look at your babies clenched fist, that is a rough guide to how big their stomach is. you'd soon know if she was still hungrey, i'm sure she'd let you know!.

sounds absolutely fine. At 7.5 months my ds was taking no more than a spoon of solids a day. he stayed at taht 'taster' stage till he was 9 months. When i cut his milk back to about 15oz a day he began to take more (about what your dd gets now) but you probably don;t want to cut her milk back yet. i wuldn't worry - weaning is a slow process, it is good taht dd does not want to rush it

thanks you that very reassuring. its just that the pressures to have your babe on 3 meals a day and loads of milk is immense and i always feel a failure at the end of the day when she hasn't eaten (what i think) a lot.

thank you all for your reassurance it means a lot to me

by the way when can i cut down the milk. the reason i ask is that she hates it. yes hates it. has since newborn, breast and bottle.
some of you have indicated the 9 months stage?

I think the guidelines say that milk should be their main source of nutrition until 1 and that they should be having 18/20 oz per day give or take but that includes milk in food etc and yoghurts/cheese. hth

how much milk is in yogurts, how can you count that in oz's.

avoiding cheese since suffers from excema but will give yogurts

I just counted it by the amount I gave e.g. a 50g pot of yoghurt was around 2 ounces.

how did you know that 50g pot of yogurt = 2ozs of milk?

teh nutritional information just says the calorific content but not sure how to decide what the equivalent in formula is?