What are we eating?

RachelMarie83

DD has started to refuse purees so we have been doing more and more table food.  She takes a long time to eat table food, though and I am always concerned she isn't eating enough.  What is everyone else eating?

broccolitree

Today for dinner she had a couple onion rings, some rotisserie chicken and gnawed on some asparagus.  All told probably about a quarter cup of food got ingested.  She got milk after a diaper and jammies change, and that's still most of her diet.  The food is just for fun, still... she's about half and half on remembering to swallow before she shoves too much in her mouth and gags herself.  We just give her whatever we're eating and let her take her time until she's done (dropping food, shoving it away, blowing raspberries).

If she's hungry, she will let you know ALL about it, trust.

freeatlast2014

I have been dealing with the same issue for some time now. For breakfast, JT has 5 tablespoons of oatmeal, 1/2 of a banana, and 1 - 2 oz of BM mixed in. For lunch he gets ~4 oz of yogurt. Other than that, I have no idea how much he's getting.Today at lunch I gave a few pieces of pancake, at dinner 2 bites of chicken, 3 1/4 inch pieces of carrots, and 3 very small flowers of broccoli. I got about 2 blueberries in him too.

This was a good day for us too...but I really have no idea how to measure how much he should get. The yogurt and oatmeal are all I have to go by for now. I really want to start weaning from BF to WCM too and I'm nervous that he'll be hungry.

I know Broccoli you said I'll know but I'm not so sure.... 

broccolitree

I'm not saying there's some kind of smug, mysterious motherly intuition thing.  If your kid is still hungry he's not going to take it with a British stiff upper lip.  Either he's going to be habitually begging for food or extra milk/formula an hour after he's eaten, or he's going to start screaming immediately when you try to take away the food.  Either way, there will be screaming and unless you're, idk, busy cooking meth or something, you'll notice that your kid wants or needs something or other.

freeatlast2014

broccolitree:

I'm not saying there's some kind of smug, mysterious motherly intuition thing.  If your kid is still hungry he's not going to take it with a British stiff upper lip.  Either he's going to be habitually begging for food or extra milk/formula an hour after he's eaten, or he's going to start screaming immediately when you try to take away the food.  Either way, there will be screaming and unless you're, idk, busy cooking meth or something, you'll notice that your kid wants or needs something or other.

Are you saying my part-time gig could interfere with parenting?

bethyla

We have been doing more table food too.  It seems like most of it ends up in a pile under his chin or in his lap.  He seems to be enjoying himself and isn't screaming after, so I think he is fine.  It will be really interesting to see what happens once we start taking bottles out of the mix.

jaejaevee

We do cut up pasta, cut up meat, eggs, bananas, cheese, pieces of steamed veggies - really anything he can pick up himself because he's over being fed. 

Our pedi says that you can tell if they are getting enough to eat by their weight at appointments which is one reason they are so close together when they're small.