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He's on 3 meals a day.
Breakfast: either yogurt with fruit, oatmeal with fruit, a scrambled egg with cheese, or 2 mini pancakes and some fruit cut up.
Lunch: some mish mash of puree/chunky puree/finger food. Today it was cauliflower and potato chunky puree with melted cheddar cheese, and some pieces of white nectarine.
Dinner: Same as lunch--varies. Tonight it will probably be something out of a jar (earth's best gourmet meals) plus maybe some puffs but I'm making quinoa spinach cakes tonight and he will have that tomorrow for dinner.

Not sure on oz, but I would guess maybe 7oz over the course of the day?

He's also still nursing 6-7x a day (no idea how much he's taking in).

We're kinda behind on the food thing! J will be 8 months old tomorrow!

He drinks about 30oz of breastmilk/formula a day.. then we do 2-3 "solids" a day, about 2-3oz of puree's at each "meal"... he's not very good with solid-solids yet, i am slowly trying to introduce them but he gags so much!

I usually do a fruit/oatmeal mix for one meal, then a veggie/rice or protein for the other meal. If we do a third it's usually fruits.

Just saw the Ped yesterday for a weight check (he did great! and gained a little over a pound this past month, now in the 24% for weight) and she thought we were in good shape - we've been upping his breastmilk/formula intake slightly, and we're also increasing the solids slowly. some day i'll get him to eat real solids.

We're still on 2 meals a day here. I'm not sure how I would do a third with naps and activities here and there. We're also doing BLW and meals are pretty inefficient still!

Breakfast - usually some kind of fruit (apples steamed so she can eat it off the skin, pear slices, peach) and either oatmeal "fingers" or those 2 ingredient banana pancakes.
Dinner - some combination of leftovers, a burger patty or chicken, cut into slices, maybe sweet potato wedges or steamed veggies.

She has her zoli and will drink an ounce or two of water with a meal and about 30 ounces of formula / day.

Wow - it looks like sort of a lot of food when I read it here but I really don't feel like she's getting much into her mouth! Definitely getting better though.

@MrsF: what are oatmeal "fingers"? I'm intrigued.

@hellobeeboston: You're doing something right if he gained a pound in a month! yay!

@mrskc: thanks! yeah, we were pretty happy with the gain!

During the week at daycare it looks like this:
6:30 - Wake-up and nurse
8:30 - Breakfast - 1 jar/pouch of food
9:30 - 5 oz bottle
11:30 - 1 jar/pouch of food
12:30 - 5 oz bottle
3:30 - 5 oz bottle
5:30/6 - 1/2 a jar/pouch of food + water + puffs or mum mums
7:30 - Nurse/bed

Weekends follow this in general, but the times vary a lot more.

I'm in the same boat as you @hellobeeboston. I feel like we need to do better with trying real food. I try periodically, but she gags a lot and makes awful faces.

@mrskc: From the BLW cookbook. Mix 3 T quick cook oats (not instant) with 3 T milk (I use rice milk because M is MSPI) in a small, flat bottomed bowl. Microwave for 2 minutes. Cool and slice into "fingers".

Quick and easy for baby to pick up and eat. Still gets mushed but I think she gets more to her mouth this way. She LOVES the 2 ingredient pancakes from the HB blog too.

@TurtleDoves: LOL!! Olivia loves her prune juice but hates avocado. I can't stop laughing at the disappointed/disgusted look on his face.

@MrsF: seriously - everything that isn't edible hits the deck at our house. well, it usually hits the dog, who's hovering around the high chair. Olivia likes to fling her sippy across the room dramatically after every sip!!

Here is a typical day for us. DD LOVES her purees but still gags a lot on actual solid food. She has just graduated to some soft fruits (melon, blueberries, and banana) so hopefully she'll get the hang of it soon. She'll be 8 months on Friday (born 10/28).
7am - wake up and nurse
9:00am - 1 oz. oatmeal with a 4 oz jar of fruit mixed in.
11:00 am - 6-7oz bottle of breastmilk
2:30 pm - 6-7 oz bottle of breastmilk
4:00 pm - 4 oz of baby food, either a jar of earth's best (she loves the chicken and sweet potato) or some ice cubes of veggies I made myself.
6:00ish - a chunk of fruit or a mummum
7:00pm - nurse

@mrskc: I'm with you. Little Miss Miss is going to be 9 months next week. I'm so slack with solids.

She gets about 11-12 ounces of BM while I'm at work. Sometimes up to 16 if she's fussy.

I give her solids randomly.

Miss A isn't a big eater of purées or spoon foods but she goes to town on finger food and will shove as much food in her mouth as she can! She's still nursing at least five times a day (usually between six and eight sessions) but we do three meals and a snack each day.

We do porridge and fruit for breakfast but usually only four or five small spoonfuls, her and I share a finger food lunch (scrambled eggs, sandwiches, fruit, cheese, crackers, leftovers etc) and then she eats whatever we're eating for tea which is most often some sort of meat and vegetables. We've also just started doing an afternoon snack of crackers and fruit.

Plenty of food still ends up on the floor (we have a very lucky and well fed dog!) but she's definitely eating some food based on what comes out again :-0

i think L is a little behind on her solids compared to your babies! she gets about 2 oz of purees or yogurt 3x/day, and a little bit of water but she doesn't like water all that much. we try to feed her bits of what we are eating but she isn't terribly interested in chunks of food yet, i don't think. she nurses 6x a day.

@hilsy85: usually he naps for like 30-45 minutes at some point in the afternoon. It is never at the same time. Lol

@Beehive: our schedule looks like this:
wake up at 6:30 ish, nurse
solids around 7:30
nurse around 8:00/8:30
nurse around 11:00
solids around 11:30/12:00
nurse around 1:00
nurse around 3:00
nurse around 5:00
solids around 530/6:00
nurse around 7:00/715 for bed

I worried that eating solids around 6 wouldn't leave him hungry enough for nursing again at 7, but he still will, plus take another 1.5-2oz from a bottle.

@TurtleDoves: he's just so cute! The look of disgust on his face! lol

@MrsF: I'm going to try the oatmeal fingers! Thanks!

I still love watching AJ eat new foods. We gave him some peach last night for the first time. Every time he tries something new he's unsure of, he gives this funny face and then shakes his head in disgust. lol He dropped the peach and went for the apple. This kid is obsessed with apples.

I'm going to ask here too since y'all are a month ahead-

He's ten months and I nurse so I have no clue how much he is taking in in ounces.

LO nurses 6:30 11 3:30 and 6:30 with three solids meals and lately had been refusing one side at the 11 am nurse session. I don't know if I should try to push it back/try to condense the 11 & 3 into one? Or just keep offering 4x a day until he is 12 m?

@scg00387: around this time I dropped the midmorning bottle and it seemed to make absolutely no difference to her. She doesn't even seem hungry at that time and she is definitely more active than she was then.

@scg00387: i'm actually glad to hear that someone else's LO is dropping a nurse. my nanny just started this week and LO REFUSES to take a bottle from her, so she doesn't get one until mid afternoon when my mom comes to visit and she gives it to her. i nurse in the morning, and then she only drinks 6 oz while i'm away at work and i'm freaking out that she is starving. the nanny feeds her a lot at breakfast and lunch, but i still feel nervous about it. every day i am examining her legs to see if they've gotten skinnier!

@SleepyMonkey: This is happening with my son too. He will only drink 6-8 ounces while I'm at work. But he does eat a lot more solids while there. Then on weekends he seems to nurse more and eat less solids.