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apparantly you can overfeed a blw baby...

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mololoko · 21/05/2009 19:47

have posted on this subject before and got loads of reassurance about tubby babies. thank you!

dd is now 10mo and can feed herself almost anything. thing is, she is now on 98th centile (up from 91st a month ago ). HV says i should cut back a bit on what i offer her, and i think she's right.

could anyone give me some useful comments on her diet please? i am feeling a bit clueless.

dd has...
8am 5oz-7oz milk
9am a couple of large dessert spoons of porridge and about half a kiddie's size banana.
1pm something like a small piece of toast and a couple of spoonfuls of baked beans (thanks franny, great recipe!), or 3-4 mini muffins (e.g. carrot and cheese) or a mini pitta bread. and some fruit.
3pm 4oz-5oz milk
6pm a couple of big spoonfuls of whatever we're having (e.g. fish pie, chicken and lentil stew, risotto etc etc) and some yoghurt or fromage frais
7pm 7oz milk

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LaDiDaDi · 21/05/2009 19:48

I would just cut out the afternoon bottle tbh.

giraffesCantRunA10k · 21/05/2009 19:52

Im not so sure - she seems to be eating healthy good quality food. As long as she isn't throwing it up because she is too full or you are forcing her to have it then seems fine. How mobile is she? Once her mobility increases she will burn more off.

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mololoko · 21/05/2009 20:11

if she's full, she just doesn't pick up the loaded spoon, or just pushes the food off her tray. i do think she needs something mid-afternoon, but i feel that milk is better for her than a biscuit or something iyswim. i think we could drop the yoghurt after her evening meal (she has a seemingly unlimited capacity for yoghurt or toast )

she is moving around (and is pretty speedy when she wants to be), and crawls well but mostly she just pulls up on the furniture or sits playing with a toy. she's certainly nowhere near as active as a lot of the other babies i know of her age.

i'm a bit worried that her portion sizes are too big. we had a nightmare in the first few weeks when she dropped from 50th centile to below the 2nd when my breastfeeding started to go tits up (she was tongue tied), so i did definitely try to feed her up for a while. i know i equate food with love but i don't want her to get my hang ups.

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TortillaDeMaiz · 22/05/2009 11:32

the quantities seem fine to me. Going from 91st to 98th is not a big jump IMO. She will burn it off when she starts walking.

Sheeta · 22/05/2009 11:34

Looks OK to me - that's almost exactly the same (quanity wise) as DS eats, and he's cut down recently!

agree with the others - she'll burn it off when walking.

anchovies · 22/05/2009 11:45

Personally think your dd's diet is pretty perfect! My 2 ds's went up the centiles (probably, never weighed) up until walking at 15 months at which point they were both real chubbers then they both slimmed down and now at age 5 and 3 are both very slim. I too worry about passing on food issues but I think leaving them to it (as you are) is the best way to go.

sandcastles · 22/05/2009 12:21

Sounds good to me! Dd, also 10 months, eats much the same in quantity.

Only difference is she has a 2oz bottle at lunch time & a 2oz with her dinner at 5ish. She was having just 1x4oz at lunch & nothing with dinner, but she seems to miss it & prefers it over water.

Then 9oz at 6.30ish before bed.

sandcastles · 22/05/2009 12:22

And I am not sure that you can overfeed a BLW'd baby, dd will leave food if she doesn't want it.

BigBellasBeerBelly · 22/05/2009 12:41

If you were offering wotsits and cake and baby was happily gorging it down then yes i would say could be overfed.

But the food you are giving sounds delicious and nutricious and not overly sweet so I'd just let DD get on with it.

DD was eating that amount at her age (more sometimes, she once put away a whole (v small obviously) roast dinner with two helpings of pudding . She was BF though so can't comment on teh amounts of milk etc.

I honestly think they eat as much as they need and stop when full -they don't have the hang-ups an adult has!

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mololoko · 22/05/2009 15:11

thanks all. i shall try not to worry. it's just that all the other babies from my nct group are so much smaller! she must have a very efficient metabolism (just like me). come the apocalypse she'll be fine.

i tried making her porridge with water this morning and skipping the banana as recommended by HV - she was screaming with hunger by 11.30. and then ate an entire banana despite me trying to hide it when she was halfway through. so it was fairly pointless trying to reduce her breakfast.

it's good to get the reassurance, thanks for taking the time to do that.

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expectingno2 · 22/05/2009 21:23

That doesn't sound too much food at all to me. Especially if BLW. My nearly 7m old prob eats similar (not BLW but goes mental if I take the spoon away so definitely wants it) and still has loads of milk feeds too. Must admit though I don't really get the portion size thing generally. I don't even do it for my 3 year old - she eats however much she eats and as long as it is reasonable food I don't worry. They generally regulate their own intake pretty well I think if you let them.

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