https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 15 May 2026 05:53:04 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/5#post-1411039 Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:25:40 +0000 edelweiss 1411039@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: we've almost completely weaned. we're still doing one nursing session when LO wakes up too early at 5am (he then goes back to bed until about 6.30am). our approach was pretty haphazard. the first step was to nurse him after meals/snacks as opposed to before. then, after a few weeks of LO consistently not touching this 3rd bottle at daycare, i dropped the corresponding nursing session on the weekends. </p> <p>besides his morning nursing session, the nursing sessions had gotten shorter, around 5-7 minutes.</p> <p>then i dropped another daytime nursing session. unfortunately i got a clogged duct and thought i was getting mastitis, so i started taking antibiotics and stopped nursing cold turkey because i was worried about the antibiotic's effects on LO. i didn't offer a bottle as a replacement either, just to see how it would go. he seemed to be fine even with the abrupt halt--it really showed me how much of our nursing by that point had been habit/emotional rather than a physical need on his part. i was sad though. i did continue to pump to relieve pressure, and after the week's course of antibiotics was over, i went back to nursing him for the early wakeup because it's the easiest way to get him to go back to sleep.</p> <p>i talked to my ped about the early morning wakeup session and she pretty much said at this point he's fine without it, that it's mostly habit, and that if we CIO he will be okay. i haven't worked up the courage though. we've done CIO before, but i'm just not at a breaking point yet.</p> <p>how is the night weaning going? what is your strategy?</p> <p>eta: geez that was long. sorry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/5#post-1410972 Mon, 10 Feb 2014 01:23:07 +0000 birdofafeather 1410972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@edelweiss: did you end up doing anything in the weaning department? we're working on night weaning now, so i've added a nursing session in to make sure she's tanked up so there are no excuses for me to go in there and nurse (so currently: morning, before her one nap, after her one nap, before bedtime). after we do that, i'm going to try to slowly move to 3 times a day to hopefully just morning and night until she wants to stop. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1335628 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:03:45 +0000 edelweiss 1335628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@allison: we've been offering a straw cup of cow's milk with his meals (although sometimes i put in breastmilk to use up the freezer stash). he doesn't drink much, but it's good practice, i guess.</p> <p>we still nurse in the morning and bedtime. i send three bottles to daycare, but he's been drinking only 3--he has a lot less of his bottles as the day goes on.</p> <p>i've been thinking about weaning a lot, and don't really know what to do. i wanted to go with LO's cues, but don't know how much i should be nudging or not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1335559 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:46:50 +0000 birdofafeather 1335559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: i was wondering how it was going with work and BFing!</p> <p>@allison: R is still feeding 4 times a day and once overnight (AH!) but she's showing signs of dropping that second nap as well. i'm definitely going to talk to her ped in a couple weeks about other milks if i'm still BFing, as i am hoping that i pumped for the last time a couple weeks ago! :)</p> <p>getting her a well-balanced diet is one of my biggest worries right now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1335545 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:40:27 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1335545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@allison: L is down to three this week. Was four last week before I started back at work. She drinks about four ounces of WCM while I'm away. I'd like to up that number but she's been a little resistant. She nurses a ton when I get home and again before bed.<br /> She eats three big meals and two snacks. Her appetite has really increased in the last three weeks. I'm shocked at how much food she eats.<br /> Her one year appointment is next week, I'm planning on talking with her doc about milk intake. I worry she's not taking enough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1335526 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:31:50 +0000 allison 1335526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It seems that we are unofficially down to 4 nursing sessions in 24 hrs. When he dropped his second nap, he started dropping his second daytime nursing session (I was nursing him after each nap. Now I usually only nurse him before his one nap). He also nurses at 6am, right before bed, and at 2am.</p> <p>Does this mean I should start offering some other form of milk? I bought some hemp seeds with the intention of making some hemp milk. Where is everyone else with this?</p> <p>ETA: Oh, and he's eating three full meals a day. I'm trying to make sure it's a balanced diet, but he's getting a bit particular about what he will eat! And it changes daily... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1194159 Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:38:31 +0000 dagret 1194159@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@coastmama: we still do purees sometimes, but mainly we give L whatever we're eating for dinner. He LOVES shredded meat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1194143 Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:23:46 +0000 birdofafeather 1194143@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@coastmama: roasting things is super easy! We do that a lot with veggies. </p> <p>We do roasted chicken and then shred it for her. She has teeth though so she can chew, although she gums a lot of stuff still and swallows that. </p> <p>We do frozen peas and corn and then just heat up a bit for her at a time. We do hunks of cheese, she shovels quinoa, rice, cous cous in her mouth. </p> <p>This thread has a ton of good ideas! <a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-feed-a-lo-who-only-wants-to-self-feed-but-has-no-teeth" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-do-you-feed-a-lo-who-only-wants-to-self-feed-but-has-no-teeth</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1194114 Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:41:12 +0000 coastmama 1194114@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Anyone exclusively on finger foods yet? I assume the ones that did BLW are. I'm looking for some more ideas. About 2-3 weeks ago we stopped purees because we were wasting so much. LO loves feeding himself and has been eating much better. We have a scrambled egg, wheat toast, and yogurt/fruit for breakfast. For lunch and dinner we've done (boiled) carrots, sweet potato, potato, green beans, peas, squash, and then for meat I've been buying the Gerber chicken and turkey sticks because I honestly don't know how to get the meat tender enough for him to eat. Now typing it out, I guess we have a good bit of variety, but I would love other ideas! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1102219 Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:37:04 +0000 pinkb 1102219@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are back to about 20-25 oz a day which I am so much happier with (crossing fingers I am not jinxing it!) Nothing is safe around Abi she wants everything we have. Current favs are mango, kiwi, liverwurst, scrambled eggs with mushroom and cheese, and carrots slow cooked with the roast. She is doing great with picking up her own food too, I love to watch her it is so cute!</p> <p>Anyone have people question what or how they feed LO? So far people either think its cool we feed her all kinds of "real" food and then try and give her stuff like cake while we arent looking( my sister did thisand MIL). Or they say she is too little for the things we are giving her and laugh like we are stupid ( lady in the grocery, my mom and my other sister). I dont care what people say, we are very happy with what we have chosen to feed her. But just wanted to see if anyone else is experienceing anything similar. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1097884 Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:07:43 +0000 kayakgirl73 1097884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I tried the silicone Mesh feeder with some Canalope in it the other night. She sucked on it a bit, but I don't think she got much. Juice was running down her face though. She's taking more Purees, however we're still on stage one, thinking about trying stage two for more variety. She can pick up puffs and put them in her mouth her self now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1095019 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:28:50 +0000 swurlygurl 1095019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@edelweiss: She loves green beans! First I made purees watered down with watermelon (it was on the counter, waiting to be eaten, so I just threw it in), and then served with carrot purees. Now she can eat plain green bean puree by itself.</p> <p>@oliviaoblivia: Mushrooms and eggplant! NICE!</p> <p>I think I need to start introducing solid food again. We haven't been eating the best lately, so I haven't been able to offer any of our dinner to her (plus, I season everything spicy - I need to stop doing that!).</p> <p>L is drinking 36 oz a day, and 12 ice cubes of purees (broken up into 3 'meals') </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1093640 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:58:06 +0000 birdofafeather 1093640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pinkb: i don't know when they start dropping off, but an LC said that kiddos usually peak at 6 months with 32-36 oz and then drop to 16-20 oz by a year. has she picked up eating any more formula?</p> <p>@edelweiss: she's definitely eating more! i've been trying to give her finger foods to practice, purees, pouches, silicone feeder, etc. for her to try it all out. i have recently been offering 3 times, but i'm not pushing. some days she really seems to want more than 2 oz, other days, she barely gets an ounce per sitting.</p> <p>@allison: yeah, i think she just wasn't that interested, ready up until a couple weeks ago. now she grabs for what we're eating, can pick up pieces of food, etc. it's crazy how fast they get the hang of it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1076769 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:42:52 +0000 allison 1076769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're still not doing much in the way of solids here. I've tried a few things, but he just hasn't seemed to be ready yet. We HAVE been giving him some fruit in a mesh feeder every few days and he likes that! He's had frozen banana and mango that way. I'm hoping that will get him used to new flavors, then we can graduate to actually chewing/swallowing food pieces. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1073983 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 10:17:07 +0000 kayakgirl73 1073983@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@edelweiss: I didn't get around to the mess feeder this weekend. Time got away from me. She'll take puffs if I put them her mouth. She will also pick them up and drop them, One night she did pick up a few pieces and put them in her mouth. I'm going to see what she does witht hem tonight. She's eight months today. Jeez time flies.</p> <p>She get's 12 oz of BM at daycare and usually 8oz of formula. I also nurse her first thing in the am, when I get home from work and before she goes to bed so idea how much she gets from actual nursing. She's getting about 2 oz of baby food a day. I probably need to ramp it up a bit. She gets most of her food at daycare as she is often too tired to eat at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1073944 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:57:51 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1073944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@edelweiss: peas, squash, lettuce (helped herself to my salad), beets, kale, chard, peppers, carrots, mushrooms, avocados, olives, eggplant, zucchini, cauliflower, and broccoli. She literally loves everything we give her except green beans. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1073933 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:53:20 +0000 edelweiss 1073933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: what vegetables has she taken to? besides asparagus, that is :) i've tried spinach and peas (it has to be a lot of peas) and it's hit or miss. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1073930 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:51:52 +0000 oliviaoblivia 1073930@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@edelweiss: L hates green beans too. They're the only food she's rejected.</p> <p>I don't know about her milk intake. She's still EBF. I think she's nursing more often though.</p> <p>We've mostly moved on to table foods and BLW. She started refusing the spoon and feeding herself. She's surprisingly good at self feeding. </p> <p>Funny side note. She has asparagus pee. Haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1073854 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:27:45 +0000 dagret 1073854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pinkb: At one point we were up to 3- 5 oz bottles at daycare but now we're back down to 3 4-oz bottles; and some days he doesn't quite finish those. So it's definitely declined somewhat! </p> <p>L has just started to be able to pick up puffs. The mum-mum is definitely easier for him to handle though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1073834 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:23:32 +0000 edelweiss 1073834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: i really wanted to do BLW also but we ended up doing a mixed approach. how has your LO liked green beans? i lovingly steamed and pureed farmers market green beans, and E doesn't like them. i tried mixing them with a lot of peas, and added in some tahini to make the sweeter, but he's like "i know you have pureed peaches in the cabinet so why don't you break that out". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1073830 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:21:17 +0000 edelweiss 1073830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@kayakgirl73: how did the mesh feeder go? i'm curious about those. is she picking up and eating the puffs by herself yet? we just started puffs this past weekend and there's no way he's getting those into his mouth by himself!</p> <p>@dagret: we do something similar--purees for daycare and a mixture of BLW/purees at home. </p> <p>@pinkb: sounds like she's eating a lot of solids--yay! E's been getting two serving of purees/cereal at daycare, probably about 4 oz total for a few weeks now. i've noticed that he's not finishing his last daycare bottle, and usually leaves about 4 oz.</p> <p>@birdofafeather: how is feeding going? i think at this age it's pretty loosey goosey. honestly if it weren't for daycare, i doubt that E would be eating as much as he does now. daycare feeds him purees/cereal twice a day. at home i was primarily doing BLW so he wasn't really eating anything, just chewing and practicing. once in a while i've fed him a 3rd meal of purees/cereal in the evenings, but not always. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1071981 Sat, 07 Sep 2013 17:59:51 +0000 pl0508 1071981@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pinkb: j gets breastmilk but I EP . He dropped from 36-40 oz to 25-30 now that we ramped up his solids! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1071979 Sat, 07 Sep 2013 17:56:34 +0000 pinkb 1071979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know most of you breastfeed, so not sure if you could really tell me, but has you LO decreased their milk intake a lot in switching to solids? Abi was eating 25 -30 oz of formula a day but for the last week or 2 we are lucky if she gets 20oz, very lucky I would say most days it is 16-18 oz. At first I thought it was from teething but her teeth finally broke through and she hasn't taken any more than 20oz a day. I read something that once kids start crawling and being mobile they need smaller portions throughout the day. So we have been trying 4oz every 3 hours but she still wont drink it all. She will drink half and then it is a fight to get her to take any more. I have gotten her to drink more water throughout the day, maybe an oz total. She is a great eater when it comes to solids and has never turned anything down, but the milk amount makes me worry. I have tried to cut back on solids and it doesn't make any difference in the amount of milk she will drink. The only thing that makes me think it is ok is that she doesn't get constipated so I think she is getting enough liquids and not getting dehydrated. I hate calling the Dr so thought I would check here first. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1057191 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 08:36:40 +0000 littlebug 1057191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@kayakgirl73: D hasn't had cereal yet! It's been all veggies and fruit and yogurt. You can absolutely skip the cereal if she's not lovin it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1055487 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:48:39 +0000 kayakgirl73 1055487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Food is going to be the death of me yet. She wants to do it herself but then food is everywhere. We also have trouble getting her to eat at night so daycare is getting the most food in her. She gets half a container of two different stage one purees so one who container a day. She gets 15 oz of BM at daycare and one 4oz formula bottle if needed. She will eat puffs if I give them to her. She can pick them up but hasn't figured out how to put them in her mouth yet. She also hates cereal, even mixed with peaches which I tried once. Do they have to have cereal?</p> <p>I just bought a mesh feeder and a silicone feeder to try giving her some real food in. I though Miss feed herself might like them. I will try them this weekend. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1049903 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:23:30 +0000 dagret 1049903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: I do purees b/c it's easier to get ready for daycare, but we mix it up with BLW at dinner. Usually after he's eaten purees so he doesn't get as frustrated with his grasping. </p> <p>L drinks 12 oz at daycare, plus 5-6 bf'ing sessions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1049875 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:11:01 +0000 swurlygurl 1049875@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@dagret: Woah - champion eater!!</p> <p>I gave in to purees, much to my dismay. I really wanted BLW to work, but everyone was freaking the eff out, and it's too hard to do with zero support and constant criticism.</p> <p>SO, we've been doing carrots/cantaloupe, peas, peaches, and green beans/watermelon. She eats 3 icecubes-worth at daycare, and then 1 more ice cube at home. </p> <p>How many oz of milk/formula are your babies drinking? L has been downing close to 40 oz every day! On top of all this food!? I try to distract her after finishing a bottle, but she is inconsolable until I give her more. I feel like that is a LOT of formula! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1048688 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:36:48 +0000 dagret 1048688@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: L gets breakfast at daycare (1/2 container of baby food), Lunch at daycare (they *say* he eats a whole container), a snack at daycare (usually mum-mums), and then he eats dinner with us. He usually eats an entire container of baby food for dinner and whatever finger foods we give him. We went for crab legs last night and he was screaming for us to give him food faster - AFTER he ate the whole pouch! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1048552 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:57:20 +0000 littlebug 1048552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: Yeah, D gets fed at lunch at daycare and then with us at dinner. We defrost a 1.5oz ice cube of food every day, and it takes him 2 dinners to eat that. So he's not getting much. I don't know exactly how much he's eating at daycare. I do know that lately his eating is crap (even nursing and bottles) because of the teething and/or he had a virus last week. So maybe once those things pass he'll eat better. But I don't push him. When he tells us he's done, then he's done. I don't want to make it about forcing him to continue to eat - we're not going to be one of those "clean your plate" households. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/january-2013-feeding/page/4#post-1047417 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:41:22 +0000 birdofafeather 1047417@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>how much are you all feeding your LOs? i've been aiming for two times a day, but honestly, sometimes she gets an ounce, maybe two? i don't push it because i overfed her carrots once and she threw it up a little. now when she is over it, i stop. but i can't help but feel like she should be getting more? </p>