What has your baby eaten today and what age are they?

[Rtfairy]

Just interested in how much others are eating in comparison to DD who is 7 months. Am interested in all methods of weaning so spoon fed, blw, jars/pouches etc..

[jessiemummy28]

DD 8 months.

7am- 7oz bottle
8am- half a soldier of toast
10am- 7oz bottle
12pm- slice of cheese, 3 spoons of Greek yoghurt
2pm- 3 oz bottle
5pm- stick of cucumber, more Greek yoghurt.
7pm- 7oz bottle.

Weaning isn't going particularly well here

[omuwalamulungi]

13 months, 13.2kg incredible hulk baby

0/1/2/3 night feeds (delete as appropriate according to mood of gremlin)
8am - 3oz milk
8:30am - porridge (a bloody adult portion)
8:36am - banana
8:40am - piece of bagel with cream cheese
11:45am - 1oz milk
4pm - fruit pouch, pureed sweet potato, chicken and veg pouch (found in drawer and used it up as going away!)
4:30pm - 2 pieces chocolate (grandma)
6pm - 5oz milk
8pm - 8oz milk plus quick bf to settle him

then sleep til midnight hopefully! then ideally one small feed at 5am but as you see above not always the case :)

[Hobbes8]

6 months - just started
7am - milk
8am - raspberries and baby porridge
10ish - milk
12.30 - sweet potato mash followed by milk
4pm - milk
5pm - shepherds pie with lentil and mince mixed
6.30 - milk
Just about to give a dream feed - not sure whether to drop this but she sleeps well so I'm reluctant to change anything.

[missknows]

5.5 month old. Started weaning at 5 months. Eats off spoon. Likes holding it but needs help getting it in mouth! Offer finger food but she doesn't touch it.

Today:

Bf

Baby porridge

Bf

Bf

Half Fruit pot (cow and gate I think)

Bf

3 frozen veg cubes- parsnip, carrot and sweet potato. (I made a few last week and choose 3 random ones each day)

Bf

(I offer water from tommee tippee cup at all meals. First one she has got the hang of!)

[Singsongmama]

DS 5 months

Bf
Bf
Lunch - carrot purée or pear purée etc and expressed milk from sippy (sometimes successful, sometimes like water boarding!)
Bf
Bf
Bf
Bf and on and on every two/three hours day and night

Writing it down makes me think....is he starving?? Might start breakfast and lunch. Also like the idea of blw - what are good first finger foods?

[sebsmummy1]

DS 19 months

Bottle whole milk
Boiled eggs and soldiers
Portion of cottage pie, green beans and baby sweet corn. Blueberries for desert.
Man all bottle milk
2 sausages, cucumber slices and peas. Yeo valley natural yogurt with pine nuts and fruit purée mixed in.
Drinks in the day water and some sips of tea.

[sebsmummy1]

Small bottle milk. No idea where Man all came from lol

[Lolly86]

DD 8 months had:
7am - bottle 160ml
8am - breakfast small bowl of baby porridge
10am bottle
1245 - lunch cheese triangle, pastry twist thing, fruit pot
2pm - bottle
5pm - dinner - mashed up roast dinner
8pm - bottle

May have another bottle in night. Has good sips of water with each meal.

[kazza446]

That's reassuring rubyroo, I'm just starting to meltdownabout it all. Im starting a new job (after being with same employer for 15 years) and my first three days are induction away from home. Need to stay over 2 night's, so I really need him off the boob. He's a real boob monster!

[TakingTheStairs]

DS 8 months, 8kg 50th percentile (adjusted)
7am 7oz
8am 1 weetabix with cows milk
11am Braised beef stew and mash
Half a petit filous
1pm two mini rice cakes
2.30 7oz
5pm Ella's kitchen pouch broccoli/peas/pears
Half a mashed banana
6.30pm 7oz


Very impressed by the other 8 month olds having sandwiches. I never would have thought to give him that
This thread is very helpful.

[mynameisnotmichaelcaine]

Kazza, no need to wean totally if you don't want to. Your body will adjust. Mothering Your Nursing Toddler is a good book about establishing boundaries. In fact, could do with re-reading it myself after last night's feed fest!

Also My Child Won't Eat by Carlos Gonzalez is great for breastfeeding mums worried about food intake.

[callamia]

singsong he's getting way more calories and good stuff from milk than he would from purée at 5 months. Does he have speedy feeds? Breastfed babies sometimes take slightly less per feed than bottle-fed (formula or expressed), so sometimes feed more often (mine did). He's almost certainly not starving! I bet he's looking marvellous.

[islingtongirl]

DD 10 months:

7oz milk
Breakfast : porridge fingers (blw cookbook - so easy!) with dried berries, handful blueberries
Snack : water, rice cakes
Lunch : Fruity Chicken (AK recipe) with baby pasta shells / Baby Yeos petit filous
6-7oz milk
Dinner : omelette with courgette and spring onion / bit of bread / pieces of peach
8oz milk

V hit and miss how much she eats, often refuses a spoon (went through a period around 7-8 months of total refusal of most food for over a week) I'd say I average she eats one decent meal a day, rest are picked at or refused and have to desperately find a suitable finger food! Some days she does surprise me though and eat well. Today was decent for once!

[Quodlibet]

Nearly 7m, vaguely BLW.

Overnight - lots of snacky BF
7am short BF
9am BF
Some strawberries, rice cakes and maybe something else for lunch
100ml expressed milk (I was at work today)
3.30pm BF
5pm BF
6.30pm: half an avocado, some spinach, some potato, some white tortilla wrap, pot of fruit purée for pudding
8pm BF to sleep.

[moonegirl]

18mths

shreddies
toast
strawberries
shortbread biscuit
cup of milky tea
roast chicken, broccoli, yorks puds, gravy
raisins
ravioli
fruit
small packet of haribos
bottle of aptamil pepti 2

[Rtfairy]

Well today 7 month DD has had:
7oz formula at about 1am
7oz formula at 6am
1 weetabix with whole milk
A fruit pot at 10.30 (snack)
1/2 heinz 7 month plus jar (chicken and veg)
A yoghurt
Some cheese as finger food.
8oz formula at 3pm
Pasta and mince bolognese made with pasta stars
Heinz fruity oat pudding.
6oz formula before bed.

No doubt she will be up for another bottle through the night, any ideas how to stop this or is she just not getting enough food during the day?

[Sunshine200]

9 months:
She is quite off her food at the moment for some reason but she had ...
Breakfast - half wheatabix
Lunch - about 5 spoons of butternut & carrot purée followed by strawberries
Dinner - 2 spoons of Ella's kitchen fish pie.

Milk - no idea, breastfed as and when.

[purplemurple1]

fairy could you swap the morning snack for a bottle it would be more filling and it doesn't seem like she has much milk each day fir her age.

[Rtfairy]

Hi purple yes usually she does have a bottle mid morning swapped it for a snack for one day after hv advice to reduce milk! Have reverted back to 4 bottles during day and one at night.

[purplemurple1]

Why are you reducing milk, I thought under one the general advice was to give as much as they want. I've reduced as my ds was getting heavy for his height and would just take bottle after bottle so over half a litre at atime and still cry for more , so I think his 'I'm full function' had malfunctioned!

I guess some babies just need that night feed a bit longer.

[ILoveYouBaby]

5.5 months

bf at 4am
bf at 6am
bf at 8am
5oz formula at 10.30

half of a pear/pea/carrot pouch (or similar) and bf top 1.30 pm

bf 4

pear puree 4.45

bf 5.45
bf 6.30
bf 11.30

[Rtfairy]

Purple I actually have no idea now the health visitor has just advised me DD is having too much milk and need to reduce to 2 bottles per day by 8 months which is only 3 weeks off! It doesn't seem right though and will just stick to what works for DD from now on. DD is my first and the advice I've been given has made me feel a bit stressed like I'm doing everything wrong. So 5 bottles per day sounds fine at 7 months then as that seems to be what she wants and she's gaining weight normally?

[Koothrapanties]

Dd is 9 months and dairy free and today so far she has had:

Toast fingers with fruit puree.

Special formula.

Carrot puff snacks.

Pasta twists with homemade tomato sauce (tinned Toms, red and yellow peppers, onion, garlic and basil) followed by a banana. (I freeze the sauce on single portions)

Special formula.

She has water with every meal and throughout the day.

Tonight she is going to have a picky dinner of avacado pieces, roast sweet potato, chicken and cucumber. This may seem an odd combination but she loves all those foods. Then a pear for pudding.

Then she has a bedtime bottle and one in the night.

[purplemurple1]

Personally if she is gaining weight fine I'd just stick with what she wants. Mines 10months now and has two or three bottles depending on the day / his mood and a fairly mixed healthy diet. So 5 at 7 month's doesn't seem like lots at all and it all changes so quickly I'm sure you'll find she just drips them in a few months any way.

[JustPretending]

Very useful thread - DS is 5.5 months so we'll be starting food in a couple of weeks. Slightly terrified as he's a great sleeper now (ebf) so don't want to break the pattern! Some great meal ideas here.