Think I'm doing it all wrong

[ManchesterMummy]

Hi,

Just been reading another thread and I think I'm doing everything wrt 8mo dd's food intake. I don't know if I'm giving her the right things in the right quantities and my hv thinks we're bonkers for never having pureed anything.

A typical day is:

• 6/7 oz bottle on waking
• Breakfast: weetabix/porridge with whole milk and some fruit/yoghurt
• 11: 6/7 oz bottle
• Lunch: whatever she has at nusery, all sorts of things and I jsut told them to give her whatever they plan to give her, so she's had: lamb stew, roast chicken and veg, fishcakes. In one of those little Ikea bowls (also have these at home) At home we tend to do finger foods for lunch so today it's going to be pasta, or sometimes bread and Philadelphia, cucumber slices, grated cheese, peas, etc. Yoghurt or fruit.
• 3ish: yoghurt/fruit/crumpets/formula. Might also have rice cakes
• Dinner: homemade stuff: tonight it's fish, sweet potato and aubergine bake, or we've had beef and veg, or pasta with ratatouille sauce, chicken and veg. Yoghurt or fruit
• Before bed: 7oz bottle

She always gets water with a meal and all milk products are full-fat. We puree nothing and never have. It's all lumpy. We give her everything we eat, unsalted of course as we take out her portions before we season, and have't given her the major no-nos such as nuts, shellfish and honey but she has had eggs (loves!), strawberries. We avoid sugar and se's never had chocolate.

Am I even close with this? I read other posts and feel I'm doing it all very, very wrong.

Anyone? Sorry for the ramble...

whats wrong with that?

theres a wide variety of people in the world so theyll do things in a wide variety of ways.

i cant see anything wrong with what youre doing at all

Sounds good to me. Can I come round for dinner too?

sounds good to me - can we come too

Well you could but there's never much spare as dh gets to it first

It just feels like a bit of a minefield, and we're always up against the "in my day..." brigade. Dh is apparently a "mean git" for not buying dd an Easter egg. She was 5mo at the time and we hadn't even started on solids at that point...

I ate all my ds's easter eggs. Why did people buy a 7mo chocolate anyway? I have given him the odd milk chocolate button, and a biscuit and a few other bits, but what you're doing sounds perfect.
Times change. All the people that say in my day, they could leave pram in the street whilst they popped in shops, never lock the front door and blah blah blah. That's what I get from my parents anyway!

It all sounds absolutley fine.

When DD was weaned we didnt have anyway of puree-ing food so I bought those jars of baby food for her, but she was always allowed to 'steal' bits of food of my plate too and had weetabix/toast for breakfast plus fruit/cheese/breadsticks as snacks.

anywa when she was about a year old I noticed that she always seemed to have an orange nose so I packed in the jars of food and just started giving her own plate of whatever we were having. She liked it much beter and the orange nose went.

DS never really had jars, just what we were all eating and by 8months he was geting his own plate with as much as DD had on it- and eating it all himself.

It was much easier not to make some
thing different just for him and he never got an orange nose!

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