Snacks at nursery

[Mimile]

We've been bugged by nursery worker to provide a more substantial snack for our DD, 9mo.
She has a full breastfeed in the morning, 1/3 banana with rice porridge (made with water), about 2-3 oz EBM around 10.30am followed by a mini rice cake, lunch (2 cubes of main, usually a meat/2 veg&carb mash + 1 cube pudding, a fruit puree) around noon, 2-3 oz EBM at 2.30pm followed by rice cake, full breast feed at 5.30pm, dinner around 6 pm (same than lunch) and milk again at 7.15pm (anything from 1oz to 5 oz, depending on the day).

Nursery has, for the 8th time, implied that DD needs a proper snack in the afternoon (I have said every other time that I did not agree). The other babies have bread stick / biscuits that we do not want to give her because of her eczema (she has rice cake). She also has more EBM available than what she drinks. I don't believe that she needs anything else, as I don't want her to get used to grazing through the day, especially on biscuits / bread type prods. I would be grateful is anyone could enlighten me! are we wrong? DD is not huge, but has good appetite, and is not starving hungry when we get her back...

Give her fruit? My DS is 8 months and half an apricot or nectarine or something keeps him going for a bit.

i can't see why a rice cake is any less filling than a bread stick tbh. and she is your daughter and you get to decide what she eats so if you don't want to provide more then don't

that said, they are with her every single day and maybe have noticed that she seems hungry, or maybe is reaching out for more food... and i don't think it hurts at all to let her control her own intake, so i wouldn't personally have a problem with includiong some fruit, or even just an extra rice cake

i must admit that all of mine were eating far more than that by 9 monthjs

Thanks for your replies!
It's the constant grazing that goes on at the nursery, no matter the time of the day I pick DD up, the babies are about or finishing to munch on something. I am worried that the milk intake is on the low side already, I don't want her to fill up on snacks and then not take her milk. Will try to replace the rice cakes by banana chunks tomorrow.

At 9 months, personally I was encouraging DD to eat more rather than less...?

We have BLW'd, so have included DD in any and every opportunity to try some food. Eating in the social setting of nursery will help to get hang of the whole idea.

If her milk intake is starting to drop, I would take that as a good opportunity to up the food.