10 month old eating questions

lana22

for those of you whose kids are eating a lot of table food, do you still give a bottle first thing in the morning? how are you spacing solids with formula? i've seen some people posting feeding schedules, but can't always get a grasp of the spacing.

my LO is 9.5 months, and i feel like i'm a bit behind on table foods. he still has mostly purees, with some chunkier foods mixed in, but i want to get him eating more "real" foods since he does seem to finally have the chewing concept down (thank you puffs). i don't think he's ready for a full toast, fruit, egg all solid breakfast, but i want to get there, and soon.

he devours an 8 oz bottle first thing, and i'm wondering if i should still be giving him formula first, or trying to give him table food and then the bottle. i will also call my pedi's office and ask, but they are def on the conservative side with feeding, so they mostly tell me what i'm doing is fine. thanks!

 

 

ASmallWonder

Until they're one, always bottle first because it's got the bulk of their nutrition.  And don't underestimate your LO - I bet he could totally handle eggs and toast  That's actually a great "first" breakfast so give it a try - he may surprise you.

GibsonGirl620

elmoali:

Until they're one, always bottle first because it's got the bulk of their nutrition. nbsp;And don't underestimate your LO I bet he could totally handle eggs and toast : nbsp;That's actually a great "first" breakfast so give it a try he may surprise you.

Ditto this.

"Real" solid foods are fun for them to try! Go for it.

preggersin2011

Our pedi said a min of 24oz/day of formula. LO drinks 6oz bottles so she has 4/day at 8,11,3,7. She has breakfast at 930, lunch at 130, and dinner at 6. She has a snack at 730 and 430.

Our 6 month appt the pedi asked how solids were going, we said that LO didn't start until the previous week and it was smashed banana or sweet potato. Pedi said if i'm making her food then she'll be on table food by 9 months because I will get tired of smashing things up. After a week of two her food was chunkier and chunkier and by 7 months she started taking things off of my plate. Toast and Waffles work really well because the more your LO will gnaw on it, the more soggy it becomes. LO was 100% on table food before any teeth came in. At out 9 months appt, the pedi said LO should be eating everything that I am (minus honey). Between 7-9 months dinner went better when there was one plate and we shared.

Lemmon_ade12

Ditto to what the PPs said about milk/formula. DS still nurses about 5 times a day. He eats solids about a half hour after getting up/nursing, lunch at around 12:30 and dinner whenever we eat.

As for solids, we started DS on purees, etc at 6 mos and now at 9.5 mos he's pretty much on finger foods (except for some prunes which I mix with yogurt). For breakfast I usually give him fruits/toast, lunch a mixture of fruit/veggies and for dinner, usually all veggies. I keep frozen veggies in the freezer and just grab whatever I want to feed him for dinner. However, we're also prone to giving him bits and pieces of what we're having.

Faves: sweet potatoes, green beans, avocado, grapes, tomatoes, black beans, broccoli (the floret part), blueberries, bananas 

sphynx920

I agree with PP about the bottle being a priority.

My only problem here is that DS refuses to take a bottle unless it's in the wee hours of the night/morning. Other than that, he HAS to eat cereal and purees. I know I should be happy that he's weaning himself of the bottle, but he also refuses to eat any sort of table food I put in front of him... UNLESS I am the one eating it. If he's playing and sees me eating, he will come over and "beg" for some, even if he just got done eating a full meal. "Only a piece, Mom," I swear is what he is thinking, because he won't eat more than that when its meal time.

PansyPants

If you want him to try more table food, just offer it while you're eating. Sit him in your lap when you eat and offer him nibbles of it from your fork. 

That's how we did solids and now our son is down to just nursing first thing in the morning, 5am, then having breakfast with dad, nursing around 9:30am for a minute before his nap, having lunch with me around noon and then nursing at 2 for second nap, dinner around 5:30, then nursing before bed at around 7. 

lana22

thanks all. he'd had eggs before but clamped his mouth shut after one bite of a scrambled yolk. he did a little better with some hard boiled yolk at lunch, but the toast at bfast was a disaster. i made him oatmeal with apples and he was not into it, and then he choked on his toast and projectile vomited more than i've ever seen come out of him. stuck to yogurt and the hard boiled egg for lunch. i'm going to keep trying, making sure i give him small pieces, but it'll be a few days before i give him toast again.

he still seems to want a bottle every 3-4 hours, and i usually feed him solids 1-2 hours after the bottle, but my husband is worried he's going to get used to eating every 2 hours.