How much solids are you feeding BF LO

Justtee33

How much are you feeding your LO? I'm wondering if LO is eating too much or just enough or not enough. I realize that BM is still their #1 source of nutrition. Just wanna see what others are doing. Thnx!

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He's 6 months (26 weeks), BF, solids for about 2 months now

Breakfast: 1 ice cube size of fruit/veg + I tblsp cereal + little BM

No solid lunch

Dinner: 2 cubes of fruit/veg + 1 tblsp cereal + little BM 

 

orangegoggles

Good question! I've been wondering the same. We started the week before six months so its only been a few weeks.

Right now he has breakfast and dinner. Breakfast is one veggie or fruit (ice cube size) mixed with about 1tbs of oatmeal and BM. Dinner is 2 cubes (veggies and fruit)  

He nurses at 7, 11, 3, 7, and 2am (roughly) sometimes with a second wake up between 4-5.  

 

jennygirlmt

Sounds fine. We do BLW and BM. Dd normally eats one meal with us, though occasionally she has fruit for a snack with DD1. Only now, at 8 months, has she started to consume any of it. DD also nurses a lot during the day. At least 6 times.

this decaf life

DD started solids about 2.5 weeks ago.

She gets 1 cube of a fruit or vegetable in the morning of whatever new item we're trying

1 cube of something different that she's already been exposed to at night

I want to make sure BM is her main source of nutrition so I'm sure she would eat more solids if I offered but I want to go slow. 

brookemcalland

If you wanna be certain that your baby eats enough and healthy you should use this: https://earlystart.me  Request an invite and they?ll give you instant access to the app by e-mail. It helped me a lot during the first months after introducing solids, it tells you exactly the amounts that your baby has to eat(milk+solids). Maybe it gives you some inspiration!

vettymama

DS eats about 30 ounces in 24 hours and eats breakfast and dinner with us. We do BLW.

starsinger17

We started out giving DS 1 jar about a hour and a half before his bedtime meal. Now we are giving him 2/3 jars and milk for his second meal.

Starting this week we are going to start giving a variety of solids for each meal.

This is the meal plan I have written out but remember my DS is almost 8 months so there's a little more solids.

1st meal

Breast Milk

3 crackers

small pieces of cheese

2nd meal

Breast Milk

1/2 a tortilla

pureed veggies or cooked green beans

3rd Meal

Breast Milk

2 tbsp. banana

2 tbsp. noodles

and later on whatever meat we are having for dinner

4th Meal

pureed or cut up fruit

breast milk

some veggies left over from our dinner

LakeGirl82

DS is 7m1w old and has been eating solids since slightly before 4 months.  He takes 6 oz bottles usually 4-5 times per day but eats one fruit (3.5 oz) - 2nd food at DC in the morning and a veggie of the same size in the afternoon.  In the evening he will eat pieces of what I eat - chicken or beef and have some puffs while I cook or simply have another 2nd food like a meal if I didn't make something he can nibble on. 

 He would rather eat what I eat, so I usually try and rip up pieces while I give him a veggie.  Depending on how much BM he took at DC as he doesn't always take the 6oz with his food, I will make the nightime bottle larger.  He's a big boy, but tall and he's happy.