https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:04:24 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1693597 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:45:13 +0000 jetsa 1693597@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I found this yesterday and really like it: <a href="http://breastfeeding.about.com/od/breastfeedingbystage/a/Feeding-Your-8-To-12-Month-Old.htm" rel="nofollow">http://breastfeeding.about.com/od/breastfeedingbystage/a/Feeding-Your-8-To-12-Month-Old.htm</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1693587 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:43:03 +0000 MrsTiz 1693587@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 8 months tomorrow, he eats 3 meals a day &amp; roughly 25oz of milk. </p> <p>We're doing breakfast at 8:30, which is cereal, oatmeal or yogurt. Lunch at 12 which is a fruit container of baby food or a strawberry in the mesh feeder. Dinner is a vegetable container of baby food.</p> <p>He gets a 6oz bottle as soon as he wakes up, and a 6oz bottle before bed. I typically offer him a bottle 3 more times throughout the day..usually around 9, 12:30/1 and 2:30/3:30. How much he takes is different every day but he really doesn't drink that much. I think he's trying to get rid of a bottle all together, but I keep offering it.</p> <p>Our schedule is basically @Smurfette:'s. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651340 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:40:40 +0000 Woolly Mammoth 1651340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 8 months, and we're just doing two meals a day. He is breastfed on demand, so I have no idea how many ounces he's getting. Some days he eats a lot of solids and other days not much of anything, so I have a feeling his milk intake is variable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651332 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:38:52 +0000 Alivoo01 1651332@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 8 months, we were doing 2 meals of solids and 4 bottles of milk. Solids were more for "play" and milk was his main source of nutrition. Solids were just to top him off. </p> <p>It wasn't until 9 months we did 3 meals, and by 10 months, he dropped the # of oz of milk he took and ate significantly more solids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651316 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:35:05 +0000 jetsa 1651316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@illumina: yep j is doing the opposite, throwing a fit at daycare when he runs out of food! our dr was okay with it but it's slowed a lot. They say food before 1 is just for fun and to not drop bottles but I figure he was getting 30+ oz so he has room to drop some, idk </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651306 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:33:22 +0000 illumina 1651306@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jetsa: ahh ok, that's interesting. S still prefers milk over solids. Sometimes she'll let us know she's done with her solid meal by refusing the spoon and trying to grab at the bottle. That's still a far gain right? S only gained 10oz from 7-8 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651294 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:28:40 +0000 jetsa 1651294@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@illumina: J has started refusing bottles this week at daycare, granted we were at 15 oz there and 3-4 nursing sessions so I don't think he needed all of it but he's preferring food to milk when I'm not around. We're on 2 meals currently but due to this change have gone to 3 this week. J's weight has slowed as well but I think that's normal, he's only gained 3ish pounds in 3 months but he's grown taller </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651286 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:27:06 +0000 Madison43 1651286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 7 months, we're the same. 2 meals and about 24 oz of formula. There's no way I could add a 3rd meal right now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651280 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:25:33 +0000 skibobrown 1651280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think we consistently did 3 meals until DD turned one. Some days we did, but many days we didn't, and that was fine. Our pedi also told us not to cut back on milk/formula until age one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651246 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:18:08 +0000 illumina 1651246@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: @Smurfette: thanks both! It looks like we're on track with the formula, so we'll wait until she's eating more before adding the 3rd meal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651230 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:14:36 +0000 catlady 1651230@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're closing in on 8 months and still only do one "meal", which is generally more like a couple small spoonfuls. I have no idea how we will get to 3 meals by 1 year. I'm not too worried though. She's still growing like a champ so I assume milk is all she really needs right now anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651204 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:08:30 +0000 Smurfette 1651204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 8 months R was on 3 meals a day and 4 bottles (formula). Roughly<br /> 6am 5-6oz bottle<br /> 8am - breakfast<br /> 10am - 5-6oz bottle<br /> 12pm - lunch<br /> 2pm- 5-6oz bottle<br /> 530pm -dinner<br /> 630pm 5-6oz bottle </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651191 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:03:28 +0000 Adira 1651191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 8 months, I think we were only consistently doing 1 meal a day! We essentially added one meal each month so that by 12 months, he was on 3 meals. But they are still supposed to get 2-3 cups of milk a day (16-24 oz), so I would keep up with the formula as is and just slowly add in more meals. As they get bigger, they'll get hungrier and want to eat more. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651175 Thu, 22 May 2014 09:00:33 +0000 illumina 1651175@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I'm glad someone else's LO is on 2 meals--my Mum friends IRL look at me as if I'm trying to starve my kiddo! It wouldn't really bother me, only I did her monthly weigh in at the weekend and her gain has slowed down about 50% from the month before so I'm reluctant to reduce the formula. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651165 Thu, 22 May 2014 08:57:46 +0000 Foodnerd81 1651165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm wondering the same thing. C is 9.5 months and we do two solid meals a day and nurse four times, usually. (Though I'll do it on demand too). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/confused-about-how-much-milk-vs-solids-to-give-at-8mths#post-1651110 Thu, 22 May 2014 08:48:56 +0000 illumina 1651110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know there is no hard and fast rule, but just wondering what others are doing/did.</p> <p>LO is FF and although we feed on demand she has roughly 24oz during the day; 8oz between waking and first nap, 8oz between first and second nap and 8oz between second nap and bedtime. We also do 2 solid meals; oatmeal or cereal for breakfast and mostly purees at lunchtime.</p> <p>I feel as though most babies her age are on 3 meals per day, though days when we've offered dinner, she'll skip the majority of that last bottle. I don't know where I've got this from, but I feel as though 24oz is about right for this age? So if this is correct, do I continue to skip dinner until she's older and can eat more and still have the same total oz of formula? </p> <p>I'm just confused because I've read that by around 12mths babies should be on solids during the day with milk first thing in the morning and at bedtime only...and not sure how we will move towards this. </p> <p>Is this one of those things that just happens and I'm worrying over nothing?? </p>