How do you know when your puree fed baby has had enough?

[Essie3]

My DS - 7 months - will keep eating, but twice (last week, and tonight) he has thrown up after his evening bfeed. I'm assuming I've overfed him, but how do I know how much is enough?

if he keeps on eating I don't know. Ethan tells me in no uncertain terms that's enough's enough. Did I have anything different on those days? E had been a bit dodgy with pasta

Well, today it was yoghurt which he loves, and pasta, ironically, but he had that last night with no ill effects.
Previous time was banana rice.
But I do suspect that he'd just had too much, because tonight and last week he had had rather a lot. Also, he wasn't in any distress whatsoever. Just giggled, vomited, then carried on.

Ethan isn't a sicky baby at all, so far pasta, too much apple and yoghurt have been the culprits. Tristan was allergic to eggs as a baby/toddler and sick, but no upset, just sick and then carried on. Sounds like there might be something I is intolerant of atm.

My ds would eat and eat and eat and eat (shall I go on?) He was always on 98th centile so I was very paranoid about under and over feeding. When weaning I decided not to follow the whole tip of spoon on day one, 1 spoon on day 2 etc as I thought he'd tell me when he'd had enough by either not opening his mouth or turninh his head away, but he never did.....
He was also a sicky baby anyway so made it hard to tell at times, in the end, I just decided on how much I thought his belly could hold. I started off with small portions, I cooked purees at home didn't use jars, so started with I think 3 ice-cube worth and if he was hungry before next feed time, upped it to 4 and so on. If you think he's overfed, you'll have to give him time to adjust to a slightly smaller meal,

agree with littleboyblue. i used to gauge myself, about 3-4 ice-cubes worth at that age IIRC. my ds always finished it, but was gaining weight well. wasn't until he was about a year that he started 'turning away' from food / not picking up food himself (obviously was on 'proper' food by then).

are you giving milk before food?

My DS is another greedy guts. Sometimes, and more so now he's older, he'll turn his head, close his mouth etc but in the early days he'd just keep opening his mouth for more and more.
I had to learn to read his behaviour, so when he was still opening his mouth but taking longer with each mouthful, or getting distracted by the cat, or playing with the food, it generally meant he was getting full and I'd take the food away. When he was really hungry 100% of the focus is on the food!

7mo dd will just refuse to open her mouth when she has had enough. Some days she will eat more then others though and will finish the whole bowl and her fruit pudding. I dont offer her more though.

Ok, thanks guys, very useful comments there.

With jars - I should explain that often they're home made purees in reused Hipp jars - I find it useful to gague amounts that way. Although maybe I should use the conventional ice cube method instead of a new and stupid method of my own devisig (because I think the jars are pretty) in order to make things clear when asking questios on here! So currently we're working on half 125ml jar (maybe 2 ice cubes?) of a main course and another half of pudding at supper time. He tends to keep going with pudding (fruit puree) but is more fussy with his main and shows the same signs that hen sees.

Lulu he gets bfed just before bedtime, and that's when the big voms have occurred each time. Wafer thin mint, perhaps? I've also started to make sure he's fed at 6 and then bfeed comes just before 8pm so there's some time for digestion...

So far, no voms. I'll go easy with the amounts. I always think because he's smaller than average I can feed more, but clearly not!

earlier supper sounds like a good idea. then a break, bath and a nice breastfeed to settle him down for sleep.

Essie - That is such a good idea to re use jars like that. Duh, I had never thought of that!!

Well, I am swayed by the cuteness of the little pots (but only Hipp organic; the others aren't so pretty) and especially the Hipp first tastes ones - 80ml.
It's a family thing, though. My Mum now has some empty jars for when she minds my DS, and my Dad has asked if we have any more of the first tastes ones because he has a use for them! (He's a beekeeper.)

I can see my son being exclusively fed on jars because they're cute!

I have just washed a load to put out for the recycling - I am going to keep them now. I only have Hipp too, there is too much crap in the others!

How long do you keep pureed veg in the fridge for btw??

My 8mo DD has 150g of pureed food for lunch and dinner and a pudding after each. Some days she eats it all, some days she doesn't. But I never give her any more.

I think you can only keep pureed veg in the fridge for 24 hours. Frozen in for 6 weeks.

DS used to turn his head away and clamp his mouth shut when he didn't want anymore.
Here in Spain spoon feeding is THE way to go and there are some very nice sounding jars on the market....cottage cheese and pear sounded lovely but when he tried it he puked all the next day. I think it's a cheese thing though as with BLWing now he pukes on cheese too.

24 hours, and I find that if you've started feeding and have half a jar (of jarred food or homemade) it goes really runny. My DH, no scientist, reckons the saliva breaks it down.

In which case, yuck, wouldn't feed that to a dog even!