Starting to think about transitioning R to cow's milk from formula. Which got me thinking about meals. Right now she get 3 meals a day and then 4 bottles. On her birthday, I just move to 3 meals, snacks, and milk with meals?
What is your toddler's day like for food?
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
3 meals + 2 snacks.
On weekdays:
6am: Breakfast
9am: AM Snack
11:30am: Lunch
3pm: PM Snack
5:30pm: Dinner
Milk with meals unless we missed one then milk with the next snack. Water if no milk.
GOLD / pomegranate / 3688 posts
Our days looks like this. DD is just 1.
6:00 am - wake up, nurse, go back to sleep
7:30 am - wake up, milk from a straw cup (usually about 2 oz)
8:00 am - breakfast, offer WCM (usually just a few sips)
11:30 am - lunch, offer WCM (she will usually drink 2-3 oz)
2:00 pm - 3 oz. bottle of WCM pre-nap (trying to stop this, but DD is holding on for dear life)
3:30 pm - snack, offer WCM (usually just a few sips)
5:45/6:00 pm - dinner, offer WCM (will drink 2+ oz.)
7:00 pm - nurse before bed
DD is getting MUCH better about drinking WCM from her straw cup - she used to only take a few sips at a time, but will now drink about 2 oz/meal.
We also keep a sippy or straw cup of water in her play area all day - she will pick it up and drink throughout the day and usually gets 3-5 oz. of water.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
E is 17.5 months and gets 3 meals, 1 snack. I cut down to one snack because he wasn't eating much at meals.
He also gets 3 bottles of milk during the day, usually at the end of/after meals. Otherwise he'd just drink the milk and not eat. He has access to a water bottle all throughout the day.
coconut / 8498 posts
LO is almost 21 months. She gets 3 meals, maybe one snack. Always milk with meals, but I don't keep it from her if she asks at other times. She drinks water throughout the day. The snack sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't. It depends on how well she's been eating at meals and her sleep schedule. Lately she's been waking too late in the morning and from her nap to allow enough time for snacks.
squash / 13764 posts
15 months.
6am wake, nurse
6:30: breakfast
10:30: small snack (either a piece of fruit, some dry cereal, or a cheese stick)
12:15/12:30: lunch
3:30/4: small snack (same as before)
5:30: dinner
7:00 nurse and bed
I will offer milk at meals and between meals/with snacks. Sometimes he has a few sips, sometimes he doesn't. I also don't stress about him getting the snacks. Water throughout the day.
persimmon / 1328 posts
Our current schedule is 3 meals and 1 snack. Most meals we give her water and we offer milk with her snack. She is still nursing or gets a cup of milk at each nap (depending on who is putting her down).
8:30 am - Breakfast with water
10:30 am - Nurse/WCM + Nap
Noon - Lunch with water
2pm - Nurse/WCM + Nap
3:30pm - Snack + WCM
6pm - Dinner + water or WCM
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Almost 16 months old:
7 am: wakes up and asks for milk & sometimes a breakfast bar/cherrios to tie her over
7:30: Goes to daycare and has breakfast & rest of milk
9:30 am: snack with water
11:30: lunch with milk
3: snackwith water
5:30: dinner with water
7: milk before bed.
Somedays she drinks 24 oz of milk, otehrs she will only drink 10-15. She's always hungry right now, so I push the milk to try and help fill her up since I'm scared she will make herself sick with as much as she's trying to eat!
grapefruit / 4278 posts
We do 3 meals with milk offered at each meal +1 snack. He has water available to him at all times. He doesn't wake up until 8-9 and lunch is at 11 at daycare, so he does a small breakfast, lunch at school, a snack after nap, and then dinner after school.
GOLD / pomelo / 5737 posts
We did bottles in between but quickly moved to cups. A cup in the morning when we first get up, and I make it available to her throughout the morning. She has it with her snack before nap. Then we do lunch usually around 2, snack around 4 and dinner around 530-6 (lately) or an earlier dinner if no snack... and at those time she may get milk, possibly some juice or water (or more likely, watered down juice.) And she is still getting one bottle at night at sixteen months. It really helps settle her although I think I could take it away soon. I just haven't because we have had other transitions going on.
pomegranate / 3516 posts
She's 18 months but we've had the same feeding schedule for a while.
7:30ish (depending on wakeup): Breakfast with milk
9:30-10: Snack
11:30/12: Lunch with milk
3:30-4: Snack
6: Dinner with milk
7:30: Small amount of milk before bed
The cups with dinner have about 6oz of milk and then her milk before bed is just about 2-3oz but she usually only has 1-2oz. She just has water otherwise.
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
@googly-eyes: We are going to take away the nightime bottle last for sure. I think it helps settle her since she gets right after bath, then we read and it is bed time. I told DH I don't care if it takes her a year to fully get rid of the bottles, I just want her on milk. Formula is expensive!
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
We do 3 meals and 2 snacks, unless we have an early lunch, then I drop the morning snack but she gets what she would have had to snack on while I prep lunch and she hangs out in her highchair.
blogger / nectarine / 2010 posts
@Smurfette: I'm trying to figure this out too. Should the wcm oz = formula oz?
grapefruit / 4085 posts
We transitioned about a month ago and now we do 3 meals and 2 snacks. She gets in a straw cup with each meal, for a total of anywhere from 15 - 18 oz a day. She also gets water throughout the day. She goes to bed shortly after dinner/milk.
pomegranate / 3565 posts
DS has the following routine:
7:30 - breakfast
Milk a little after breakfast
Snack between meals
11:30 - lunch
Milk and snack sometime in the afternoon
6:00 - dinner
Milk before bed
He's offered the three sippy cups of milk but sometimes only takes two and sometimes has 4. There are about 8 ounces in each cup and he usually drinks almost all of it.
When he transitioned away from formula he was drinking about 3-4 six ounce bottles.
pomegranate / 3414 posts
almost 17m
milk with breakfast around 7AM
milk with lunch around 12PM
milk with dinner around 6PM
water available all day and snacks at least once (don't know times because sitter does these)
blogger / grapefruit / 4836 posts
@Mrs. Polish: Milk doesn't equal formula. The milk is the dairy component of their diet...they only need 16 ounces of milk a day, and that is if they have no other dairy. There are lots of other nutrients they need that aren't found in milk, and they have to get those from food. (Just did a lot of research for the post that went up yesterday 
pomegranate / 3768 posts
DD is 13 months and is getting 3 meals and 4 bottles of WCM. I've tried giving her milk in a sippy, straw (even though she drinks water from a straw since 7 months) and open cup but she REFUSES to drink milk out of it. So it looks like it's going to be a slow transition for us which I'm fine with.
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