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Routine sound ok?

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Dlah · 10/05/2017 16:41

So my daughter is 6 and half months old. She's been having purees since just over 5 months and then a few weeks ago I've introduced some finger foods, I've tried to get a bit of a routine going, how does this sound

6.30-7am - 7oz bottle

8am - porridge/toast fingers

9.30-10 - 5oz bottle

12-1 - purée veg or fruit (or if out will do a bottle) & some finger food maybe avocado, carrot baton (soft boiled) etc

3-4 - as above, if been out earlier will do purée now, or if been in will do a bottle now, so one session ends up bottle and one ends up food

6pm - 6oz bottle, bed, sleeps til 6am

The bottles throw me as she's always been consistent 6oz every 3 hours until started introducing bit but now is naturally reducing what she wants. I've tried introducing water but at present she's not keen, want to keep her fluid up

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LapinR0se · 10/05/2017 16:43

At this stage you could up the calorific content of the purées. I would steer clear of fruit purées (except banana) and go for more filling things like sweet potato or mashed potato. Have you introduced any protein yet?

Dlah · 11/05/2017 06:08

So far banana is the one thing she won't eat lol
She's had:
Carrot
Sweet potato
Peas (but now won't eat)
Prunes
Peach
Pear
Apple

I have tried a textured chicken and veg casserole but wasn't keen

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LapinR0se · 11/05/2017 07:32

Ok you can try mashed avocado, great for nutrition
Also scrambled egg
And a 3-veg purée which is potato, carrot and sweetcorn
Porridge is a good one for the mornings and you can whizz some blueberries into it if you fancy

LapinR0se · 11/05/2017 07:32

Everything on your list is sweet so try and get a few more veggies going to break the sweet cycle and up the nutrition quota

riddles26 · 11/05/2017 09:27

My one is similar age to yours and ebf so I don't know exactly how much milk she has but my routine is:
7am bf
8am breakfast - yoghurt with fruit/porridge/eggs
9.30am nap
10.15 bf
11.15 lunch - usually same as my dinner so pasta with sauce/mixed vegetables (combination of mashed and sticks)/lentils/casserole
12.15pm nap
3pm bf
6pm bf then bed
1am bf

I haven't started dinner yet. Like you, if out at lunchtime we give dinner instead and extra milk feed when lunch would be. I aim to avoid much sweet at lunch and let her have the sweeter things at breakfast so I mix in the apple/pear etc into her porridge or yoghurt or I make 2 ingredient pancakes to incorporate the banana.

For calories, I am adding cheese to the veg meals now and I have kept them lumpy from the beginning (I started weaning a few days before 6 months). If she doesn't want to eat the solids Ive made then I just let her have milk, I don't make alternative solid options at this point

I'm no expert but I read to give as much savoury as possible from early on so they don't rely on sweet and she seems to have taken well to it so far so I am going with it

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