https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:42:10 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-315984 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:00:25 +0000 mamimami 315984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: small... A couple spoons of cereal with breast milk or a couple of spoons of veggies. Or on our BLW days a few pieces of avocado etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-315539 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:22:22 +0000 Rubies 315539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When LO was 6 months old, she was having solids for lunch. When she was 7 months old, she was having lunch and dinner. By 8 months, she was having breakfast, lunch, and dinner. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-315474 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:58:25 +0000 Honeybee 315474@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Within a week of starting solids with DS, we went to two meals a day. The kid can eat! In fact, at our 6 month checkup yesterday, our doctor ok'ed us to start finger foods next month, so I guess we'll go to three meals then (or sooner, if he needs it). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-315166 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:00:25 +0000 Mrs. Pen 315166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We play around with it. Sometimes we give him three solid meals a day and sometimes it's only 1-2. He is 7 months. It depends on his mood and I never lose a nursing session no matter how much he eats, I make sure of that. But his meals are light.</p> <p>Like today he had an apple pureed with kale. Yesterday he had about 1/2 cup of steamed broccoli for dinner, and a typical lunch would be 1/2 avocado and about 2 oz of steamed carrots. </p> <p>He will often eat bits of what we eat, I have a beef and sweet potato dish I make so I picked out the carrots, sweet potatoes and ground beef and he eat those (not pureed). Another day I made a crock pot so he had roast, potatoes, celery and carrots just like us. </p> <p>So it really depends on the day and what we have going on. I'm not a stickler for meals but if he is acting cranky I give him some food. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-315165 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:00:24 +0000 loveisstrange 315165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caffeinated: Yeah. We just feed her what she will eat though. She has increased from about 1oz to 4-5oz in a sitting. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-315150 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:52:46 +0000 autumnlove 315150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started solids at 6 months, moved to two meals at 8 months and we are doing 3 solid meals at 9 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-315146 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:51:25 +0000 Freckles 315146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>thanks ladies, as usual! even though i love cooking and was excited to make LO food, this solids business has been stressing me out.</p> <p>@zippylef: did you gradually increase your serving size before moving to 2 meals a day? we started LO on cereals at 5 months (1 tbsp) and have increased it to 2 tbsp.</p> <p>@sloaneandpuffy: how big were your serving sizes initially? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-315118 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:41:05 +0000 mamimami 315118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started immediately with three meals a day at 6 months... Cereal for breakfast, veggie for lunch and veggie for dinner. Then we added fruit to lunch and dinner, to breakfast, protein, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-314825 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:41:01 +0000 MamaBehr 314825@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At our six month visit our Ped said to start with two meals a day. He wasn't consistently getting one meal a day at that point, so now at seven months I try to get in two meals a day. She actually told me it is so that he starts to drink less, but I thought that is still where 99% of his nutrition is coming from still so we would want him to drink the same amount. But, regardless at seven months he is getting two meals a day about 90% of the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-314790 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:22:16 +0000 heffalump 314790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did one meal for a month, then two meals for a month, than three meals. </p> <p>Our doctor said we could start with three meals a day but I wanted to take it slow. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-314703 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:40:08 +0000 SAHM0811 314703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Per our ped this time around we did one meal at 6 months, two at 7 months and three at 8 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-314697 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:21:35 +0000 MamaCate 314697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We went pretty slow, doing one solid feeding in the evening around dinner at 6 months. About a month later we added a lunchtime meal and then a third meal around 8 months. LO is now nearly ten months and seems happy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-314654 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:46:42 +0000 loveisstrange 314654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We started at 4 months and we're starting to move to 2 meals a day now that she's 6 months. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-314609 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:47:47 +0000 pinkcupcake 314609@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it took about a month. At 7 months, she usually eats two solid "meals" a day, but she doesn't eat very much. On a good day, she'll eat maybe 3 oz per meal? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-soon-after-starting-solids-did-you-move-to-2-meals-a-day#post-314589 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:04:06 +0000 Freckles 314589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So whether you started solids at 4 or 6 months, how many weeks after giving your LO a taste of solids did you move to feeding him/her twice a day, and then three times a day? Or did you just increase how much you fed your LO for one meal? </p>