What exactly does your 10-12 month old eat during the day? How many bottles and/or meals do they have? What solids do they have at each meal?
I have a bit of a routine but I think it's time to change things up.
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AM bump... because I posted this at 1am. Haha.
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@bluestriped bee: I'll play! DS is 8.5 months. He doens't have that much of a schedule, but he will take about 20 ounces of formula during the day (7 am-8 pm). In addition, we put him in the high chair for "breakfast" and "lunch" which are some combination of: plain cheerios, greek yogurt, fruit like raspberries or banana chunks or mango or blueberries, cheese, shredded chicken, and a veggie like carrots or mashed peas or sweet potatoes. For dinner he eats with us at the table and has whatever we have - protein, starch, veggie. He is a big baby (22 pounds) so he is, I suppose, eating plenty! He starts day care Monday though, so this will all change!!
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By this age DS was starting to wean on his own - he hated bottles. So we were at 4 bottles a day and I prepped 5 ounces each and he probably took 3-4oz out of each with coaxing. Ped said to aim for 16-20oz a day. We offered straw cups of formula at meals and water during play. Bottles were at 730, 1130, 330 and 7pm.
He got 3 regular meals with us at 8am, 12pm, and 5pm. He had snacks a light snack at 10am like Cheerios and a yogurt at 4pm.
DS wasn't super into self feeding aside from puffs and melts and blueberries until closer to a year although we always put stuff on his tray. We mainly spoon fed chunky porridges, stews, risottos, and other one pot meals that were balanced. He'd eat about a 1/4 cup per meal or less but he wasn't a huge eater. He started self feeding better around a year old, maybe a little older.
We tried transitioning to WCM in his 12th month but he had a bad reaction so we did toddler formula for an additional month and he transitioned to milk just fine when he was 13 months old. He didn't drink a ton of milk either but ped said 8oz a day was fine. He suddenly decided he loved milk around 18-20 months and sucks down 2-3 cups a day now.
He always got a dry snack in the car like puffs or a rice cake because it kept him happy.
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My 9.5 month old is breastfed and I try to do at least 2 meals and usually 3 a day, but she isn't a big breakfast person. She breastfeeds 5 times /24 hours, but I don't think she drinks that much.
Yesterday: breastfed at wake up, breakfast 1.5 hours later of boiled egg and blueberries. She ate maybe half the egg and some homemade oatmeal/pear/berry pouch. Breastfed before nap and then lunch around 12 of pasta and sauce, the rest of her egg, and some blueberries. Nap, breastfed at wake up, and 9% yoghurt for dinner because we got home too late for a dinner of other food. Breastfed before bed. She has never really let me feed her with a spoon and recently has let me give her yoghurt. I can also give her purees in pouches, but that's a recent thing too as she has always been big into the self-feeding only. She gets water at all sit down meals with solids.
Yesterday was a good eating day for her solids wise. She's on the smaller side for her age.
This morning I gave her some toast squares and butter, blueberries, and boiled egg. She didn't eat much of anything really. I can get her to eat a boiled egg per day plus other foods and she likes cheese so I try to throw them in daily or every second day as I know she'll actually eat them.
Other foods she eats sometimes: veggie burgers, bean burgers, naan bread or sub bun, quinoa salad, rice, cucumber. She gnaws on frozen celery for her teeth and loves it.
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We were doing three meals a day. Still nursing morning, before naps and at night.
Breakfast was yogurt + fruit, toast with peanut butter or vegemite, eggs (scrambled, omelette or egg cups), banana loaf etc
Lunch was usually pieces of fruit, some veggies, some cheese and some sort of mini main (meatball, pasta, ham slices, chicken, lots of stews at this age)
Dinner was similar to lunch but we also did lots of freezer foods - risotto pucks, pasta pucks, stew pucks (chicken, thai curry, chili, ham and pea etc), meatballs, broccoli quinoa bites, rice and beans. Most of the mains have veggies in them but we'd try and add peas, broccoli etc (she hates carrots) on the side, plus some fruit and cheese. She always eats the cheese first
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@wrkbrk: We are talking about daycare, too. Thinking of them starting possibly in October. I'm starting to think of some sort of meal routine. Right now, there isn't much variety in the solids I give them. They get...
1st meal- Bottle, oatmeal, fruit chunks
2nd meal- Bottle, veggie puree, veggie chunks
3rd meal- Bottle, yogurt, some kind of fruit or veggie chunks
4th meal- Bottle, fruit puree, some type of fruit or veggie chunks again.Oh, they they mum mums or puffs while I get bottles or puree ready.
I'm thinking I need to give them more solids and less purees. Also, maybe at each feeding, give them a little bit of each food group.
Oh, they eat meat if it's in the veggie puree. Yeah, I think I need to add more food groups.
I was slacking in giving them food chunks. Last week was the first week where they got at least one meal of food chunks. This week, I've given them food chunks at every meal. Yeah, I know I've depended on purees a bit longer than I should.
@gingerbebe: Now that you mentioned it, I think I see some signs of bottle weaning.
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@Banana330: Oh, eggs at breakfast. What a great idea. I'll try that this weekend.
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@bluestriped bee: We'd mix together eggs, spinach, cheese and she gobbles them up! Also do peppers and mushrooms sometimes.. but the key is cheese for her
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@Banana330: Oh, yum. Thanks! I think they'll enjoy that. They love their veggies. Plus, I've been trying to figure out how to incorporate cheese.
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Before a year she was still drinking formula (I had to wean at 9 months), and we were doing BLW she just had what we had during meal times, or we'd prepare something simple for her.
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E is almost 10 months. He nurses 4x a day and sits with us for 3 meals
630 nurse
700 breakfast: usually one of the following- egg, oatmeal, toast, plain Greek yogurt
1200 lunch: usually leftovers from the night before, he is heavy on the protein and veggies. He loves all meat: chicken, pork, beef and fish
Fav veggies: roasted sweet potato and broccoli300 nurse
400 snack. his favorite right now is an apple. I bite it down a little and he holds it and chews little pieces off and sucks out the juices.
Traveling snacks: mum mums, puffs, yogurt drops600 dinner: eats whatever we are eating usually a meat and veggie like lunch
Other random food he likes: black beans, lentils, apple sauce, banannas630 nurse and bed
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LO is 11.5 months. He is BF but I'll give you the schedule while I'm at work:
-wake up: nurse
- about 1.5 hours later (maybe 8am): breakfast. This is baby oatmeal made with breastmilk and fruit he can feed himself (soft pear, banana, blueberry)
- Midmorning: Bottle/sippy cup of BM (about 4 oz)
- Lunch: soft finger foods. Dark meat chicken, chunks of sweet potato or carrot, soft cooked green beans, maybe chickpeas, or fruit are some examples.
- nap
- midafternoon: Bottle/sippy cup of BM (about 4oz)
- Sometimes will also have an afternoon snack of solids - puffs or maybe a fruit/veggie pouch mix
- Nurse when I get home from work
- Dinner: same foods as lunch
- Nurse at bedtime
- usually nurse once overnight.The schedule is still kind of fluid at this point. When I'm with him on weekends he usually also nurses before his nap. He has just very recently increased the amount of solids he is eating. He has (had?) very severe MSPI so we are not giving him any "allergenic" foods (dairy, soy, nuts, eggs, seafood) for a while, so his diet is kind of boring.
He also drinks water out of a sippy or straw cup with meals/snacks or whenever he wants during the day.
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DD doesn't like to nurse when she wakes up. So I pump and she eats breakfast. Here's her schedule and some examples of what she eats. She drinks water at meals.
Wake up
Breakfast - eggs, yogurt, oatmeal with fruit, banana, peaches, pancakes (no syrup)
Nurse
Nap
Lunch - shredded cheese, leftovers, spinach ravioli, sometimes we have Chick Fil A kids meals. I get her grilled nuggets, applesauce, and water
Nurse 1 or 2x - it varies each day
Nap
Snack - usually a pouch. I try to pump again too.
Dinner - she'll eat whatever we have. She loves salmon, chicken, steak (I hand her a big chunk and she sucks on it) most veggies. If we have something that she won't eat because it's too spicy or difficult for her to eat then I give her shredded cheese, avocado, or a piece of fruit and a pouch. After she finished eating I give her puffs or a teething cookie to keep her occupied and happy while DH and I finish eating.
Nurse
Bed
Nurse 1x overnight -
@Mrs. Pickle: um whyyyy haven't I had a chick-fil-a date with my LO yet?? I'm already penciling it in for this weekend haha. I don't know why I've never thought of that.
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following to check up on later after work
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@justjules: DD loves the nuggets! I can't wait until she can play on the playground.
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