Post your 8 month old feeding info here

breezy79

times, amounts etc

 

thanks in advance ladies! 

 

gbaby26

Wakes around 5:30 am....

5 oz Bottle at 6:00-6:15ish

Breakfast at 8:15 am- Yo Baby yogurt with stage 1 fruit (bananas, pears, something like that) or if not having yogurt she will have 1 tablespoon rice cereal mixed in with a stage 2 fruit.

5 oz Bottle at 9:30 am

Noon: Stage 1 Veggie with puffs or another small snack

5 oz Bottle at 1 pm

5 oz Bottle at 4 pm

Dinner: Stage 2 Veggie with 1 tablespoon rice cereal

5 oz Bottle at 6:30 then bed

everam01

My boys wake up around 5:30 and get both breastmilk and formula. 

6:00 - 4oz bottle

8:30 - 5oz bottle

10:00 - oatmeal cereal + fruit

11:30 - 5oz bottle

1-1:30ish - 4oz veggie or veggie blend

2:30 - 5oz bottle

5:30 - 5oz bottle

6:30 - 4oz pureed dinner + attempt some finger foods (yogurt melts, bits of steamed veggies, etc)

7:30 - 4oz bottle, then bed

They still wake up to eat at least once during the night. 

dbadura01

This is for weekday as well.  Weekends, he usually has one less bottle.  I think he just likes to eat more at day care because he sees the other kids eating.

5:30am - 6oz bottle

6:30am - Breakfast (2 tbsp cereal with banana or yogurt and fruit)

8:30am - 6oz bottle

11'ish am - Lunch (2 oz of veg and 2 ounces of fruit) or whatever leftovers are appropriate (shepherd's pie, spaghetti, etc...)

12pm - 6 oz bottle

3pm - 6oz bottle

6pm - dinner (usually just a bit of whatever we're eating - veg and meat... maybe a fruit as well)

7-7:30pm 6oz bottle and bedtime.  STTN until 5:30 or 6:30 am

LacieMI

LO just turned 8 months yesterday.  I breastfeed and work full time, but am primarily home when LO is up/eating. Our day looks something like this:

7am - nurse (I know he gets A LOT more volume at this nursing)

9am - small snack here like Cheerios, diced fruit, mini muffin, etc...

10am - nurse or 5oz bottle

11:30am - 3oz of food, combo of puree plus self-feeding some kind of soft solid

1pm - nurse or 5oz bottle

3pm - another meal of purees and/or finger foods (2-3oz)

4:30 - nurse or 5oz bottle

6pm - puree & finger foods (2-3 oz) 

7:30 nurse or bottle & bedtime

usually one night time wake up, sometime between 2-5am.  Nurse on one side and immediately back to bed 

Lisa Frank

7am: 5-6 oz bottle

8-8:30: breakfast. Yogurt, bits of fruit (banana, strawberry, melon etc), toasted plain bagel to nosh on

11am: 5-6 oz bottle

12noon: lunch: again, bits of whatever I make. Eggs, fruit, veggies + stage 2 or 3 puree, puffs, Mum-mums etc

3pm: 5-6 oz bottle

5:30pm: Dinner. Bits of whatever we're having, plus a stage 2/3 puree.  

6:30/7: 5-6 oz bottle

leawinston

This is making me feel better, because I've been worrying that my DS wasn't eating enough breast milk/formula. 

7:30 wake up/nurse and sometimes 4 oz bottle

8:30 solids (usually 2 oz cereal and 2 oz fruit)

11:45 6 oz bottle

3:00 6 oz bottle

5:30 4-5 oz bottle followed by solids (4 oz of fruit and veggie combos) 

8:30 6 oz bottle

STTN

He doesn't usually drain his bottles. Sometimes, he leaves a ounce or two left over. Lately, he hasn't been really interested in solids. I think he's teething. I was thinking about adding a lunch, but I'm not sure. I don't want him to stop taking his bottles.  

ToBeMrsC6907

7:00 am- nurse, then solid breakfast

8:30 am- 2nd breakfast at daycare

10:00 am- bottle

11:30- solid lunch

1:00- bottle

3:00- pm snack

4:00- bottle

5:30- quick nurse

6:30- solid dinner

7:00/7:30- nurse

EEM9906

We have been switching things around a bit lately trying to find what works the best and we have finally settled on the following for now:

6AM - wake up & nurse

8AM - breakfast (yogurt, fruit, oatmeal)

Nap somewhere in here

10AM - nurse or 5oz bottle if at daycare

1PM - nurse or 5 oz bottle if at daycare then lunch (veggie and oatmeal)

4PM - nurse or  5 oz bottle if at daycare

5PM - dinner (meat and barley cereal)

7PM - nurse then bed

We have been offering some finger foods as well at meal times, usually fruit at breakfast, veggies at lunch and veggies, chicken and/or pasta at dinner...and of course puffs!  My boy likes to eat : )