Moms of older babies: How much solids does your LO eat?

armandos_girl

I would ask this on 6-12, but I know you ladies  and your babies better...

Approximately how many jars of baby food a day does/did your baby eat at 6 months? 

We're going to start sending fruits & veggies to daycare for Gabe (he currently eats cereal 2x/day while at school).  The amount the daycare lady is saying he "should" be eating sounds like an awful lot of food to me, and I'm worried he won't eat his bottles as well.

AJplusKev

Currently, Colin is eating rice cereal for "brunch" at daycare (not sure how much), and then for supper he usually eats almost a container of Gerber veggies/fruit. Tomorrow I'm going to give daycare the okay to start mixing some fruit with the cereal since we've tried them now and haven't seen any reactions.

war_eagle

What is she suggesting?

dmogmo

G has a tablespoon of cereal (with about an ounce ounce and a half of formula) with an ice cube or half a jar of fruit for breakfast.

And usually half a jar of both veggie and fruit for lunch (or ice cube-ish size servings. He eats most of it now. He's a little hog - I never expected to be doing two meals a day this fast.
 

dmogmo

Also, I wouldn't worry about what they daycare lady says he "should" be eating. Just do what you think Gabe is comfortable with.

weelass24

Oisin take an Irish biscuit and 1 jar of satge 1 food at daycare. The biscuit in the morning mixed with just under an ox of formula just after he gets there (he takes 4oz before we leave the house) and then the food in the afternoon.  he still takes 3 8 oz bottles while he is there.

He gets another 1-2 jars in the evening, plus bottles.  We moved him up to 3 soilds a day really quickly because just after he started them, he was taking more formula than before he started.  

He's only been getting soilds for a month and he should be on stage 2 foods in about 2 weeks. 

armandos_girl

war_eagle:

What is she suggesting?

She's saying he needs a full jar of fruit on top of the cereal he's already getting, and 2 jars at lunchtime.  And she generally gives him more cereal than I do.  That just seems like so much food!  This is what I was thinking:

1/2 jar  fruits + cereal for breakfast

1 jar  veggies for lunch

1/2 jar fruit + cereal for snack.

He currently gets 1/2 jar of veggies and 1/2 jar of fruits for dinner.

Sorry, for whatever reason, I'm completely OCD about what and how much he eats.  And since he dropped a bottle when we started cereal in the afternoon, I'm worried if we suddenly add 3-4 jars of food to his diet, he'll drop even more bottles.  I think I'll tell her we're going to stick with the above amounts until we can talk to his pedi at 6 months.

 

armandos_girl

Wait - just re-read Diana's post.  I thought 2 ice cubes = 2 oz = 1/2 jar?  If 1 ice cube = 1/2 jar, then maybe his daycare teacher isn't so far off.

dmogmo

armandos_girl:

Wait - just re-read Diana's post.  I thought 2 ice cubes = 2 oz = 1/2 jar?  If 1 ice cube = 1/2 jar, then maybe his daycare teacher isn't so far off.

I honestly don't know - I should clarify, I'm referring to little stage one jars.  So maybe that's the difference? I'm not too worried about amounts, if he needs more I give him more, if not then I don't. 

ETA: the jars I'm referring to are only about 2 1/2 ozs.  

aggie_teacher

Holy COW that's a ton of food! You're right, that's way too much. 

Andrew gets a jar or five cubes at lunch. He takes two six ounce bottles and one five ounce one with the food.

He nurses before we leave, when we get home, and before bed.  

He's actually eating less now for dinner as we're transitioning to finger foods. He eats a lot less on his own, so I usually give him a small container or a few cubes after he practices with green beans/spaghetti/pancakes. 

armandos_girl

diana82:

armandos_girl:

Wait - just re-read Diana's post.  I thought 2 ice cubes = 2 oz = 1/2 jar?  If 1 ice cube = 1/2 jar, then maybe his daycare teacher isn't so far off.

I honestly don't know - I should clarify, I'm referring to little stage one jars.  So maybe that's the difference? I'm not too worried about amounts, if he needs more I give him more, if not then I don't. 

ETA: the jars I'm referring to are only about 2 1/2 ozs.  

Ok, gotcha.  I was referring to 4 oz jars, so 4 cubes would be 1 jar.

dmogmo

armandos_girl:

diana82:

armandos_girl:

Wait - just re-read Diana's post.  I thought 2 ice cubes = 2 oz = 1/2 jar?  If 1 ice cube = 1/2 jar, then maybe his daycare teacher isn't so far off.

I honestly don't know - I should clarify, I'm referring to little stage one jars.  So maybe that's the difference? I'm not too worried about amounts, if he needs more I give him more, if not then I don't. 

ETA: the jars I'm referring to are only about 2 1/2 ozs.  

Ok, gotcha.  I was referring to 4 oz jars, so 4 cubes would be 1 jar.

 

I still think daycare lady is going overboard. Unless he seems like he needs more, I would just go with your gut. 

tri047

We just recently started 2 times/day.  We were doing only one but at his 6 month check up they said we could start twice.  So he gets a bottle in the AM at day care, then around lunch time she gives him rice cereal followed by a little smaller of a bottle (she uses some of it to make the cereal) then a 3rd bottle later in the afternoon.

We probably won't start doing 3 feeding/day until around 9 months.

armandos_girl

Thanks.  He's such a piggy that I really think he'd eat until he threw up, so it's hard to gauge whether he needs more or not.  He freaks out when we're done eating, but calms down after he's sucked on his pacy for a few seconds.

I was just worried maybe I was letting my OCD get in the way of what he needs if that makes sense.

tri047

That still seems like a lot of food Armandos.  You have to remember that their main source of nutrition should still be breast milk or formula.  Solids is just for taste, texture and training them how to eat.

tri047

Oh...as far as how many jars Christopher gets, I'm not sure since I make my own food.  Day care gives him 2 T of cereal and I probably give him anywhere from 1-2 T of veggies in the evening.

armandos_girl

tri047:

That still seems like a lot of food Armandos.  You have to remember that their main source of nutrition should still be breast milk or formula.  Solids is just for taste, texture and training them how to eat.

I know, but he currently takes 18 oz (3 x 6 oz each) at daycare.  He was taking 23 oz at daycare, plus nursing in the morning and at night.

The kid is a food machine.

aggie_teacher

armandos_girl:

tri047:

That still seems like a lot of food Armandos.  You have to remember that their main source of nutrition should still be breast milk or formula.  Solids is just for taste, texture and training them how to eat.

I know, but he currently takes 18 oz (3 x 6 oz each) at daycare.  He was taking 23 oz at daycare, plus nursing in the morning and at night.

The kid is a food machine.

Andrew followed almost exactly that same schedule. A couple of months ago he started taking the three smaller (6 oz) bottles. All Gabe needs, IMO, is one jar for lunch and one for dinner. Tri is right; you're risking replacing milk with carrots and that's bad news bears. 

tri047

Christopher is drinking close to the same amount at day care (around 18 oz) plus 2 solid meals/day.  If you are worried, you could do 3 jars of food during the day.  Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

armandos_girl

I just looked over his logs from the past couple days, and his bottles are spaced about every 4 hours apart (he generally eats every 3-4 for me).  If he really was hungry, they'd be feeding him bottles more often (I always send one extra).  I think we're going to keep doing what we're doing right now and talk to his pedi on the 23rd.