https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:42:10 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661667 Wed, 28 May 2014 06:03:37 +0000 Pumuckl 1661667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>From 9 months on LO was on a schedule that looks like this:</p> <p>5-7am: Nurse<br /> 8am: Breakfast (usually toast cut into 9 pieces)<br /> 9:30am: Snack (fresh fruit)<br /> 11:30am: Lunch (veggies, carbs and sometimes meat)<br /> 15pm: Snack (in the old days a glass of pureed fruit now often either fresh fruit or something to dip)<br /> 6pm: Dinner (oatmeal or tablefoods)<br /> 6:45pm: Bedtime nurse</p> <p>I offer water in a sippy cup at every meal and it is accessible to him all throughout the day (also at daycare).</p> <p>Until 10.5m we had a MOTN nursing session at around midnight.</p> <p>Now at 13/14m the schedule is pretty much the same but he is now also getting a bottle of un-homogenized WCM with breakfast and (after) dinner because he is weaning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661652 Wed, 28 May 2014 04:50:37 +0000 Cherrybee 1661652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I introduced morning snack at 7 months.<br /> At 9 months, I removed her lunchtime bottle. </p> <p>Her schedule now looks like<br /> 7.30am - Breakfast (porridge and 200ml milk in a bottle)<br /> 10am - Snack (toast/crumpet with 200ml milk in a bottle)<br /> 12.00 - Lunch (solids and water in a sippy)<br /> 3pm - Dinner (solids)<br /> 3.30pm - Afternoon bottle (200ml)<br /> 5.30pm - Bedtime bottle<br /> 6pm - Bed. </p> <p>The next stage, I guess, will be replacing one of her bottles with a sippy cup; I'm thinking her morning snack bottle first. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661600 Tue, 27 May 2014 23:18:44 +0000 QBbride 1661600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 11.5 months and just starting daycare. I haven't given him snacks yet because I nurse him between meals, so I consider that his "snack". At daycare they offer him a snack in the morning 9:30am or so) and around 3 or 3:30pm after his nap.</p> <p>So far I mainly offer water in a straw cup with meals and throughout the day. I tried offering cow's milk in a straw cup but he's not interested so I'm not pushing it. He still nurses at least 3-4x/day plus he eats cheese, cottage cheese, and yoghurt. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661312 Tue, 27 May 2014 19:05:42 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1661312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: good to know. Thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661251 Tue, 27 May 2014 18:21:02 +0000 Silva 1661251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't do a snack until maybe 10 months, starting with an afternoon snack. We started because she was starving an hour before dinner time and totally melting down. I think I added a regular morning snack maybe 6 weeks later for the same reason.</p> <p>I'm not trying to wean, but starting at age one we gave my EBF daughter a little cows milk in either a regular cup or a straw cup and she was fine with it. She loves it, actually. I only give it to her as an occasional snack or if I'm away for bedtime my husband gives her some warmed up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661225 Tue, 27 May 2014 18:00:41 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1661225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: well I was thinking of not offering a whole lot of actual food during the snack so she would be possibly more apt to take milk from a cup... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661205 Tue, 27 May 2014 17:41:29 +0000 deerylou 1661205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Sunshine: She prefers them to a traditional sip cup, surprisingly enough! We got her first straw cup for Easter; it took about a week, but I continuously offered and modeled how to do it (not sure that helped, lol), and she eventually got the hang of it. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661200 Tue, 27 May 2014 17:36:33 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1661200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@deerylou: she can drink from a straw? I'm impressed. LO is 8.5 months right now (I'm just asking about snacks because I thought maybe she would want one around 9 ish months...) &amp; straws confuse the crap.out of her lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661187 Tue, 27 May 2014 17:23:42 +0000 deerylou 1661187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In the last couple of weeks (ten months). I actually let her determine the schedule, right now. It helps us work on her signs. I keep a shallow basket on the coffee table, with her straw cup of water, puffs, and dried fruit. If she grabs a bag, I give her one or two pieces. A good amount of the time, she's satisfied, and crawls away, but when she sticks around, grabs the bag again, or signs "eat", I sit her down, and offer a handful, or break out a refriderated snack (cheese, snap peas, etc). She usually shows interest in a snack between lunch and dinner. As she gets older, I'll probably remove the visible snacks, and wait for requests, or implement a loose schedule. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661177 Tue, 27 May 2014 17:16:46 +0000 Adira 1661177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Xander's in daycare so he was taking bottles during the day, so I basically introduced milk in a cup by replacing bottles with a cup (one bottle a week).</p> <p>During the weekends, I would give him a cup of milk instead of nursing. I didn't give it with food, though you could. Xander generally doesn't drink a lot when eating though - he always drinks more milk between meals.</p> <p>As far as snacks, I never formally introduced them, but he started getting them at daycare after 12 months. He's 15 months now and always has an afternoon snack (he usually has lunch at 11:30, a snack between 2:30 and 4:00, and dinner at 5:30). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-introduce-a-snack-to-lo#post-1661172 Tue, 27 May 2014 17:12:52 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1661172@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How old was your LO when you started giving them a snack? Did you do a morning or an afternoon snack? If you planned on weaning at 1 but so far only offered water in a cup, would you say introducing breast milk in a cup with the introduction of a snack would be a good way to getting them used to having some type of milk in a cup? </p>