LO has just started solids and I was curious if people would be willing to share their schedule for when they give solids and what you are giving. Right now, we are doing oatmeal twice a day.
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We started with just one feeding per day (usually at night so we could do it instead of daycare). Eventually we also sent some lunch to daycare for her and then they said she was gettting hungry watching the other kids eat breakfast so we sent that too.
Until they are really eating and hungry, just practicing once or twice a day is fin.e
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@Thehistoryofus: When did you move from more than 2 feedings a day? Few weeks? Month?
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My LO is nearly 7 months old and she does 2 solid meals per day. Usually mid-morning we'll do oatmeal with some kind of fruit and then in the evening we'll do a vegetable. She loves eating and would probably do more, but we're sticking with the 2 for now.
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We do 3x/day as recommended by our pediatrician. We moved from 1-3x/day in a week. She doesn't eat very much at each feeding, though. Most days she probably eats 2-3 oz of solids all day. She gets oatmeal + fruit for breakfast and a veggie + fruit or fruit/yogurt combo for lunch and dinner.
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Our pediatrician just said that you should be consistent about timing (babies love routine, will get used to getting hungry at same time each day), and that when you try a new food, do it in the morning in case they have a reaction, you aren't stuck at the hospital overnight.
We are at 6.5 months and eating two meals a day, usually oatmeal with fruit in the morning and a veggie sometimes with rice cereal in the evening, and we just started exploring Cheerios and some more textures...
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@meredithNYC: @Weagle: @FriedBabyMama: Did you add the fruit separately to make sure they liked it before you gave them fruit and oatmeal?
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7 months and we do 3x a day now. At first we did cereal in morning and then a taste of puree at dinner. Around 6 months we added in a 3rd small meal.
Here is our schedule (which I took cues from based on what he was doing at daycare).
He has oatmeal (still just 1 serving) around 7:30/8 (about 2.5/3 hours after last feed) and then his bottle an hour later.
He has 2-3 oz of puree (fruit or veggie) around lunch time...again 2.5/3 hours after his last feed and then his bottle an hour or so later.
Dinner around 6 he has a little puree (1-2 oz) and we let him explore with finger foods. Last night, it was avocado mashed up, a few strips of orange pepper (cut into thumb sizes so he could suck/gnaw), and a hunk of pickle (that he loved, gnawed on!) He couldn't grasp the food much at first but now he can grab it and bring it to his mouth. He has his bedtime bottle 45-hour later after dinner.
For fun during the day I give him a teething biscuit and happy puffs. He isn't getting much nutritionally from those, but it's just for fun.
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@winniebee: So solids and then bottle? Sorry I have tons of questions...
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@littlek: Since I make her purees at home, I would usually give her a spoonful after making just to test how she reacted. Then I would add it to her oatmeal. But, sometimes we would make her food after she was asleep, in which case I would just throw it into the oatmeal the next day untested. I feel like this is easier with fruit since we haven't come across one that LO doesn't like. Vegetables, on the other hand, are tougher!
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@littlek: Most people do the reverse - bottle/nurse then solids. But it's what they do at daycare and I really want to keep to his routine. Basically I have found that a solid meal delays his next bottle by an hour, maybe hour and a half (it doesn't replace the bottle).
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@winniebee: Are you still doing (or doing at all, some don't...) the three day rule for trying new foods? I'd love to diversify LO's diet, but it's such a pain with all the wait time.
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@littlek: We tried the fruit separately at first...but not for any scientific reason - just cuz that's how it worked out...
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@FriedBabyMama: meh, not really. with purees, more like 2 days. he's tried most if not all of the purees by now though.
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LO is 8 months and is still fickle about eating. She doesn't like eating breakfast--so we do lunch and dinner. She eats about 2-3 ounces total for the day.
We have the nanny try every morning between 8:30 & 10 for breakfast, but most times LO doesn't want the food. She will usually eat around noon/12:30 and again at 7/7:30 p.m.
We follow the 3-4 day rule, but now since she has tried a lot of foods I will introduce a new food with an old food, so for instance I know she likes sweet potato, so I combined that with the new food: green beans.
I've also been finding that LO responds better to food when it comes from our plates--so we've been eating similar foods. This weekend she had rice and green beans with us and lentil soup.
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@littlek: Nope. I actually never gave her plain oatmeal. I think it tastes like cardboard that way, so why shouldn't she? I just mixed the fruit right in with it. I'm really not that great at following all of the rules when it comes to feeding solids. We don't follow the 3 day rule, I started combinations almost immediately... When they start solids, most of their problems with food comes from the texture and that it's a new experience. It's not necessarily that they don't like the taste. LO now loves some of her first foods that I thought she hated. I realize now that it was because the whole experience was new.
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We are just a month or so into the solid foods so I understand the confusion. It was definitely a testing game for a while to figure out what worked for LO.
We started with just oatmeal twice a day, about a tablespoon of dry cereal mixed with formula. It took her a little bit to get used to it. We then started introducing "orange" veggies one at a time - butternut squash, carrots, and sweet potato. We would mix a couple tablespoons with some cereal and add formula. With jarred food we started with about a half a jar. Now we are up to a full jar, although sometimes she will eat less. If she becomes disinterested I assume she's had enough.
We had major spit up issues if we gave her a full bottle after the solids so we give her 2-3 oz after she eats the solids and she does well with this.
Her schedule now is bottle upon waking (5:30-6am).
Solids at mid-morning feeding (8:30-9:30) w/small bottle.
Bottle at mid day.
Bottle at mid-afternoon.
Solids at evening meal w/small bottle.We started green veggies and have been having less luck with her liking these. We also introduced prunes this weekend because she was having constipation issues. I wanted to hold off on the fruits a bit longer, but she's still eating her veggies which is good(and boy, did those prunes help!). I pretty much always mix her fruit or veggie with some cereal and once I know she is ok with a food, I'll go ahead and mix although I haven't had to do this as of yet. Up this week for new foods are peas and I may re-visit the avacado. She was not a fan but I'm thinking if I mix it with some sweet potato or squash, she'll do well. Her favorite food by far, though, is carrots. She is so excited when she eats them. So cute!
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LO is almost 6 months and only eats a spoonful or two--no way do we even consider that he has a full "feeding."
He will eat one or two baby carrots and the is the most he will eat.
I think your LO will dictate how many feedings he gets a day. -
I have a 6 month old. We do one meal a day - at night. She gets that at 5:30 and her last feeding is normally a half hour to an hour later at 6. This sometimes changes depending on when her last bottle at daycare was. I haven't figured out the magic timing yet. She is usually hungry for milk right after solids which means I need to figure out this timing better.
We have done peas, pears, apples, bananas, avocado, chicken and turkey (all homemade except the peas). I did not always wait the three days between each food. She hasn't had a reaction yet so, I'm just going with things.
I think soon we will start sending a "breakfast" meal to daycare. Maybe a fruit and meat or fruit and oatmeal and then give her meat and veggie at night.
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Also I would ask B's daycare how they approach things - they might have suggestions for what works with the daily schedule there.
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When we started solids it was just once a day in the evenings. I waited a month before sending solids to daycare. RIght now she is 8 months old and has solids twice a day. once for breakfast at daycare and once for dinner at home
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At 6 months when we started DD on solids, we did 1 meal and upped it to 2 meals a day within a couple weeks. We never did oatmeal or cereal - just jumped right into puréed fruits and veggies. At around 8 months we went to 3 solid meals a day - fruit and veggie for breakfast, veggie with grains and a fruit for lunch and dinner. Then at 9 months we added meat to her lunch and dinner, so her current schedule looks something like:
Wake up and nurse
Breakfast (3 oz of fruit with yogurt and a stick of fresh mozz)
Nap
4 oz bottle
Lunch (4-5 oz of meat/veggie porridge and 2 oz fruit)
Nap
4 oz bottle
Snack (puffs or some banana or cheese, etc)
Catnap *
Dinner (same as lunch)
Nurse and bedtime
5am middle of night nurse session
* The catnap doesn't happen all the time and I think it's her way of telling us it might be time to transition to two naps soon. Sigh.
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