9 month old food

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Is this too much food for a 9 month old:

Breakfast of porridge
6oz formula
Lunch of pasta and broccoli with cheese sauce or similar followed by a small yoghurt
6oz formula
Dinner of chicken or fish with veg/potatoes etc followed by a dessert of some sort such a fruit pot or rice pudding
7oz bottle at bedtime
And approx 3-4oz during the night.

Thinking of introducing a mid morning snack of toast and an afternoon snack of some fruit or Ella's kitchen puffs

Is this about right?

Sounds absolutely fine to me. They go through stages of eating more or less and I've variously worried about DS wating too much or too little or not the right stuff since weaning but he's fine. You'll be fine. Just feed them decent stuff when they're hungry and keep the morning and evening milk as long as possible.

Is your child hungry when you want to introduce snacks? Because if not there really isn’t any point! That’s the same amount of food if not more than my 15 months old eats, so I doubt you need to add more in.

To be honest, he will eat whenever I put anything in front of him. I was hoping introducing snacks would fill him more so he'd come off the feed during the night

Also hoped giving more "finger food" snacks would help out as his "meals" are all spoon fed

Babies still need milk throughout the day and sometimes night before they’re one. I wouldn’t cut down his milk until then. Once he’s one, night weaning is definitely worth looking into. Milk should still be their main source of calories and nutrition until 1, so don’t cut him down more than he needs to be.

I'm not.

My HV has told me he needs 20oz a day which he would still be exceeding throughout the day/at bedtime.

The only milk I'm trying to avoid is the small feed during the night.

(His porridge is made with baby formula)

All DC are different though, I would take his lead. Unlike @TeddyIsAHe's 15 month old, this would be nowhere near enough for my 13 month old.

As in, feed him if he's hungry, don't if he's not...and keep up his milk intake, which you have been doing.

What sort of weight were they when born? I only asked as my first was small 9th centile and second complete opposite on 90th but then settled into 75th. Dc1 is 3 and still eats little and often (still doesn’t reliably sleep through and would sometimes look for a yogurt etc through the night and has a night bottle of milk until about 1.5) dc2 eats bigger portions less frequently and has slept through reliably since 5 months (now a year). The old saying of bigger babies start off settled is certainly true for us! We just had to take their lead in the end

** HAD a bottle of milk until they were 1.5