Solid Food Portion Info

bethanyturon

Just wanted to share with you all the daily recommendation my pedi gave me on how much LO should be eating.  This is the recommended daily intake for babies 6-8 months old:

Breast Milk or Formula: 28-32 oz a day, 3-5 times a day

Solids: 3 times a day

Cereals/Grains: 4-8 T a day (= 2-4 oz or 1/4-1/2 c); can include cereals, teething biscuits, and cheerios

Fruits/Vegetables: 4-6 T a day (= 2-3 oz or 1/4-1/3 c); just pureed fruits and veggies

Protein Foods: 2-4 T a day (1-2 oz or 1/8-1/4 c), pureed meats, plain yogurt

(And no juice or nut butter.) 

naturegal79

I don't know about the Cheerios... My pedi told me nothing like that until 9 mo.

MollySm

Lucia definitely eats more in the fruits and veggies category, and less in the cereals category!  

Shawnee11507

We didn't start solids until 6 months, so we are nowhere near that yet. I just added 2nd meal 2 days ago. Trying for fruit in morning and veggie in evening. We will have to work up to that. Not starting meat until 8 months or puffs/cheerios until 9.

bethanyturon

I agree that I wouldn't do cheerios, either...I suppose it would be for babies with more teeth??  We did start cereal and oatmeal and she likes that a lot

MollySm

We have given Lucia a few cheerios (at Gramma's house), and even with no teeth they sog up pretty quickly and she can eat them.  But it's mostly to practice the pincer and she mostly chucks them on the floor.  So I think she's actually eaten about 3 - pretty sure that doesn't count as an oz! 

heymommy

Cheerios are a common finger food. It's what people see before Puffs .

 

firewife9278

We started solids at 6mo, so it hasn't been that long for us either.

Starting today, DD will get 1 pouch of puree, split into two feedings at daycare ... today it's just banana, but many of the pouches are blends of fruit/veggie (which we used to feed in the evenings/at dinner until last week when we started more table foods). She loves those. She gets 1 mum mum with each serving.

Additionally, she gets puffs/rice cakes for snacks, and bits of what we're having for dinner (veggies like green beans, carrots, peas, tomato, avocado etc, and some kind of starch - sweet potato, rice, bread, pasta noodles. She mainly just plays with it, but she does eat some!)

We don't feed her meat of any kind yet.

She gets 5 bottles a day also, 6oz each (except her bedtime bottle, which is 7-8oz) for a total of 30-32oz per day.

runrinserepeat

We started solids at 6 months, too. DD gets a little bit of whatever veggie we're eating for dinner, but she doesn't usually eat it. At best (with sweet potato usually), she grabs it and puts it to her mouth and "noms" it. I'm certain she's swallowing next to nothing. We discussed this with the pedi on Friday, and she says that's fine. 

naturegal79

bethanyturon:

I agree that I wouldn't do cheerios, either...I suppose it would be for babies with more teeth??  We did start cereal and oatmeal and she likes that a lot

Well Reece has 7 teeth so I don't think it's that. LOL.  I just wouldn't feel comfortable with something like that until he has molers and can successfully chew it up.