7 month diet

[sunshine75]

Dd is just over 6 months, bf and recently weaned.

Please give me a rough idea of what you do in terms of milk/solids throughout the day (times and types of food).

I want some frame of reference for what I should be aiming for by 7 months

My DS is 8.5 months. This is roughly his routine since about 7 months. The amount he consumes does vary though!

7am - Wake up, bottle of milk (6 oz)
8.15am - Breakfast - Usually a small bowl of cereal mixed with some fresh fruit or puree and DS usually has a small slice of milk bread with cream cheese as finger food (some days, he will only eat a little, he's not very keen on brekkie!)
11.15am - Lunch - Usually a small bowl of a meat meal (beef casserole or spag bol that sort of thing) plus finger food (Organix snacks / breadstick that sort of thing) and a petit filous or fruit
2.30/3pm - Bottle of milk (6 oz)
5.15pm - Dinner - A small bowl of vegetarian meal (soup or pasta or cous cous) + fruit (no pudding)
7pm - Bottle (6 oz)

Hope that helps!

Dinner's finger food is usually granary bread with butter on it.

DD is almost 8 months and she still has 4 BF during the day (2 sometimes 3 BF at night). 7.30am, 10.30am, 3pm, 6.30pm, 10/11pm, 2am-ish

She has 3 meals a day (because it works for me). 8am, 12noon-ish, 5.30pm

If we're out and about and I snack, I feel guilty and give her something to chew on.

Dont think that we're the ideal. Am waiting for DD to drop some milk (ideally the 2am), but its not happening. Go with the flow.

Oh, and we're BLWing.

My son is 7 months and my routine is almost exact to babyocho above. I am keen to drop some of milk feed too.

dd is nearly 7 months

bf 730am

breakfast 9 am (after boys gone in morning) - porridge, toast, weetabix

bf 1030

nap

lunch 1230 - examples:rice cake, philly, pear, cheese on toast, cucumber, scrambled egg, bread dipped in soup...

bf 2pm after lunch

nap

bf 4 ish

dinner - anything and everything! meat, veg, pasta, pots, ....

bf 630

then bed

no night feeds, sometimes add 5am bf.

Glad I found this thread, I was looking for the same info! My DD is 7 months and was weaned at 5 months (on advice of HV). Current daily intake is:

7am - breastfeed
9am - 3 tablespoons cereal made up with 3oz formula, 1 slice toast (drops half of it though), diluted fruit juice
12pm - veg - varies - today it was 60ml lentil soup, with 90g yogurt and a rusk, diluted fruit juice
3pm - 5/6oz formula
5.30pm - fruit mixed with 1 tablespoon cereal and boiling water, rusk, diluted fruit juice
7.30pm - breastfeed and bed
10.30pm - dreamsleep

She's been sleeping through since we established the above routine, I had been including a breastfeed at 4pm, but she wasn't interested.

6am - bf
7.30 - cereal / toast / fruit
9.00 - bf
11.00 - bf
12.30 - toast / cheese / fruit / veg
2.00 - bf
4.00 - bf
5.00 - pasta / rice / potato / whatever we're having
6.00 - bf
7.00 - bf
9.00 - bf
10.00 - bf
12.00 - bf
1am - bf
2am - bf
4am - bf

Hmmm - seeing it written down makes me realise I need to increase his solids a fair bit.

rofl

We've been blw for one week, but have no proper bf/nap routine so its been fitting in around that. Will study these for inspiration!

xx

Probably best not to use mine for inspiration wme .

EDIT: I meant 10.30pm dreamfeed not dreamsleep, LOL!

I was very interested to see this thread. DD is 30 weeks (almost 7 months). I didn't wean until 27 weeks as she didn't seem all that bothered about food. We are only three weeks in so it is early days, but having left it late I feel as though things should have progressed a bit faster than they have so far. I introduced breakfast a few days ago but she doesn't seem at all bothered. This is our routine, such as it is, although it varies from day to day:

7.15 breastfeed
8.15 breakfast: attempt to give some baby porridge
9.00 nap
10.30 breastfeed
12.30/1pm lunch: veg puree
(nap either before or after lunch depending on length of 9am sleep)
2pm breastfeed
4pm nap
5pm tea: fruit puree with rice and milk, breastfeed either before or after
6.30 breastfeed

I don't think she's hungry enough to take breakfast, but I'm reluctant to cut back on the breastfeed as she feeds really well then whereas the rest of the day she can be very distracted. I can't leave breakfast any later as she gets really tired by about 9.00. I would like to try and cut down on the breastfeeds and increase solids, but not really sure how to adjust the routine yet. It doesn't help that she's had a bit of a cold and so not that interested.

I'm hoping in another week or so to get things a bit better structured, but it's easy to feel like you are struggling to catch up if you have waited until 6 months to start solids.

Sorry, not much help here but would be very interested to see what others are doing.

7 3/4months
8am-ish Bf
10amish Breakfast -current fav for us both is apple, raisin and cinnamon porridge plus some toast with unsalted butter and a bit of fruit (melon, mango etc)
12 ish bf
2ish lunch - hmmm... omelette, chicken leg, lentil dahl, veges, fruit as above. No great enthusiam shown to anything
4ish bf
6.30-ish slap up dinner veges, potato/rice/pasta whatever is on the menu really plus yoghurt and fruit. Great enthusiasm shown to everything generally.
8pm bf

I should probably add
12am BF
3am BF
6am BF
Sigh.....

fadingfast - I feel the same as you. My dd is nearly 7 months but we have only been weaning for 2 weeks and am doing purees (yes I know but have done it before and old dogs etc) and so it looks like this:

on waking up (5.30am-7am) bf
7.30-8am breakfast - cereal and fruit puree
10.30 am bf
11.30 am lunch - veggie purees then some banana or fruit
2pm bf
5pm dinner - veggie purees then yoghurt or fruit
6.30pm bf
10.30 dreamfeed bf

I am introducing different things really slowly and havent even thought about meat or wheat - everyone else seems to be far more advanced - am happy with what I'm doing though...well I was, now am thinking I should be cracking on - I think though if I gave her lots of protein then I would be in danger of interfering with the bf - has anyone else found this?

I am feeling really MISERABLE about weaning and that I'm not really doing very well by DS (7.5mo). Everyone else I speak to seem to have DCs that eat tons and it's all going swimmingly.

Here is what we did today and this is a VERY GOOD day:

(6am ish - a few little BFs but we co-sleep and I'm not sure how much he takes - it's very quick and neither of us are really awake.)

7.30 - wakes up, very short BF

8.30 - porridge with apple and pears - flatly refuses. Chews some small bits of toast.

10am - BF

12 - 4 teaspoons of carrot with chicken stock. Little stick of cheddar - 2 bites.

2pm - BF

4pm - quarter of banana, bite of cheese.

5pm - BF

6.30pm - 3 spoons baby rice with apple and pear (this is yesterday's discovery: that he will take a little of this blander food at this point but is not interested in BLW type things or stronger tastes.)

7.30 - BF

Now I am not kidding when I say this is a tremendously successful, lots of eating kind of day. I am much more inclined to BLW but in the last couple of days have been trying more puree type things, as DS mainly waves finger food around and hardly eats any of it.

I feel crap and disorganised in that I don't seem to be able to produce nice food during the short windows of DS's interest. I love the idea of 'they eat what you eat' but DP and I eat at about 8pm, and I usually find it's too meaty/ too fiddly to lend itself to being cooked separately for DS 3 hours before.

I am confused by 'food is for fun' versus AK three meals a day and my GP and HV suggesting vitamin supplements.

I really want to do BLW BETTER and have DS excited by a range of foods. But I'm honestly starting to panic about the GP advice above and the fact that other people's DCs of similar age seem to eat lots more. I have been very relaxed up until now but now am worried I have been too slack and not really trying hard enough.
I've tried feeding DS in his high chair, at the table with nothing to distract him - a few bites then he cries and gets bored. Or in the bumbo with toys on hand - bite or two, prefers toys. On my knee, with and without distractions - as above.

Sorry for the novella. I'll go and lie down now...

Shooflypie - this may sound completely counterintuitive but could you try setting your alarm for 7 and doing the bf then giving an hour and a half before solids?

Equally could you drop the 4pm banana and give solids at 5pm followed by a bf at 6.30 before bed - if you move to 7am-7pm you might be able to fit more in maybe?

I think that lots of babies wont eat solids when they know that theres a lovely bf on the way - why would you want to swap all the comfort willingly? I agree though that the messages are very confusing because its hard for them to eat when they're not hungry after a bf and yet you're not supposed to do it first because milk is their main source of nutrition upto a year...hmm

Shooflypie, will it make you feel any better if someone is doing worse? My DS is 7.5 months and we do

8.30 either porridge or wheetabix with fruit puree mixed in. Toast or organix biscuit finger food.

12-2 (always after nap) little bit of veg puree and rice cake/toast as finger food.

BF schedule similar to BroccoliSpears

If DH and I are eating next to him I will try to give him something finger-foody of our plate, but he is rarely interested....except for pizza crusts which he will give a wee gnaw on!

DS currently flat out refusing all foods, I think since I had to give him some calpol last week. He had been taking his breakfast and lunch and i had given dinner a few tries but absolutely no interest. He wasn't at all interested in a second course at lunch either.

I tried BLW at 26weeks but gave up at 28 weeks when not one morsel of food crossed his lips (and I was getting family pressure about him not eating anything). I went from sneering at Karmel because of what I'd read about how good BLW is, to being the Karmel queen with a freezer full of veg ice cubes!

We started weaning DS at 5mo and he is now 7.5mo. it is only in the last 4 or so weeks (so about 6 weeks into weaning) that he has started to eat decent amounts of solids as he is BLW and it has taken him a while to be dextrous enough to shovel the food in!

i found the initial stages of weaning horrible - so messy, took ages and was like having a newborn again, and i seemed to be breastfeeding as much as ever. but it has got a lot better in the last month - i think at some point the baby just gets it and then it is fine. our routine is finally getting to where i expected it to be:

7am big breastfeed
8.15am breaskfast - weetabix with milk, or baked fruit with yoghurt plus toast with philly. offer breast for top up but only takes it maybe 1 day in 3.

9.00 nap
11.00 - small breastfeed (one breast) or water and rice cake. has started to look like he could drop the lunch breastfeed. so some days he has it and others he is happy with a snack - depends on breakfast intake

12.00 lunch - meat or fish, veg, plus pasta or pitta or potato, followed by more fruit. half goes in mouth, half ends up on floor/chair/clothes. offer breastfeed top up which is often taken, especially if he hasn't had milk before or if most of the food has ended up in his hair .

1.00 - nap
3.00 - breastfeed - i say 3pm but in reality this is anywhere between 2pm and 4pm.
5.00 - tea: something like toast, omelette and veggie sticks or pasta with some kind of cheesy tomatoey sauce. sometimes meat/fish if i've been organised.

6.30 - big breastfeed.

he has just done two nights through from 7-7 without another feed. that's not to say he's slept through - i was up at 2 and 5 comforting him last night! - but it seems he's finally taking in enough food to not need an extra night feed. we did start at 5mo though so this is 2.5mths in so i imagine this is more like 8.5mo with your DD sunshine

shooflypie - i sympathise as weaning is miserable. like i said, it took my DS a while to get the hang of it and now he eats tonnes, although clearly has hungrier days and not so hungry days. just stared at his dinner last friday and chattered to me - very happy but not at all hungry.

have you tried eating with DS? This made a huge difference for my DS. I make more or less the same food for him and me at lunch, and then sit down and show him as i eat - literally get his attention, put a big bit of pasta or meat in my mouth then chew in a OTT comedy manner. it really amuses him and he then invariably copies me himself.

Hi all
I am also having such issues with my ds weaning. Started at 5 months- he was very ready and he ate very well. Then a few weeks ago he began driving me insane with his eating- crying/moaning, turns his face away, spits things out, etc. The moaning is just driving me insane!
This is his plan-

6.30am- bottle

7.30am- 1/2 a weetbix in some milk & some fruit
(question- is 1/2 a weetbix enough as he wont eat much more but can eat more of fruit)

11.30am- lunch with some type of meat and veggies followed by a fruit pot or cut up fruit. (question- how much should I be giving? i think its generally 3 tablespoons he eats but he eats verrrry slowly (unless I add the fruit with it- Sweet tooth already?)

2pm- bottle

5pm- PROBLEM!!!! He will always be happy to eat toast fingers or a phillidelphia filled snadwhich, rice cakes, rusks, yogurt. nothing really else, else he turns his head, cries and moans...grrrrrrr!!!! (Now yes he is eating, but what about variety? is he turning into a fussy eater?)

6.15pm- bottle

any suggestions?