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Solids - how much are you feeding?

curlydoglovercurlydoglover
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Especially if your kid is highly mobile - crawling, pulling up, etc.

I'm beginning to wonder if the reason B is waking up at night to nurse again is because he needs more solids during the day.  Our pedi said to give 2 servings at 7 months but he's always on the go during the day, I wonder if he's getting enough calories?

We send 2 baby bullet containers (~2oz each) and he gets one of those mixed with cereal.

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Re: Solids - how much are you feeding?

  • SonadoraSonadora member

    She gets two meals a day. I try to offer what amounts to about a half a cup at each meal. So I would offer a whole sliced nectarine and a few strips of chicken at one meal and then 4-5 good sized pieces of squash and a couple strips of cheese at the second.

    We're doing BLW, so it's a bit different, but our pedi advised offering a half cup twice a day if we were doing purees mixed with cereal and BM/formula.

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    imageSonadora:

    She gets two meals a day. I try to offer what amounts to about a half a cup at each meal. So I would offer a whole sliced nectarine and a few strips of chicken at one meal and then 4-5 good sized pieces of squash and a couple strips of cheese at the second.

    We're doing BLW, so it's a bit different, but our pedi advised offering a half cup twice a day if we were doing purees mixed with cereal and BM/formula.

    Oogh.  That's definitely more than he's getting.  Ok, we're going to try increasing this weekend.  I'm also going to see how much cereal DC is giving him.

    We try to offer finger foods on the weekend (he's fairly indifferent to them, actually) but can't do full BLW because of DC.  They won't let him do finger foods until he's a bit older.

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  • kat81again2kat81again2 member
    like one ice cube of veggies a day...we suck. DS is very mobile (crawling a lot, not pulling up though) and I guess he just has a lot of BM. It is more caloric than food, afterall.

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  • janneann1127janneann1127 member
    Wow.. we feed a lot comparatively. G is almost 8 months, and we're doing 3 meals a day, approx 3-4 oz of solids at each meal. In the morning, I do 1-2 tsp of baby oatmeal mixed with 2 oz of fruit. Lunch is ~4oz fruits/veggies. Dinner is ~4oz of meat plus veggie. He also eats about 26-28oz of formula. He's pretty active with the crawling at this point, and he's a big boy. Probably about 20 lbs.
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  • nursedevivonursedevivo member

    Avery eats 3 meals a day. I give him 4 cubes for b-fast, 3 for lunch and 3 for supper. So 7.5 oz solids a day because they are 3/4 oz cubes.

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  • MamaPajama2010MamaPajama2010 member
    My LO gets 2 "meals" of solids each day (fruit for lunch, veggie for dinner). If she is getting a jar, she eats the full 4 ounces. If it is homemade, she eats until she is full (usually 4 TBS or a little more, but for lunch today she ate an entire banana). She is a tiny little peanut (14.5 pounds), but she has a prettty big appetite.
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    We were doing about 2T of cereal & 2+ oz of purees, but I think that was too much for her too fast.  We also just switched to formula, so I think it was too much adjustment at once.  So now, we are doing 1T cereal & 1-2 oz purees, and she is doing much better. 

    We also started giving her water from a sippy with her solids.  She has about 3-4 ounces per day of water.


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  • curlydoglovercurlydoglover

    Thanks everyone. We're definitely going to increase now.  We had tried going up to 3 meals a day a couple weeks ago but he seemed to be getting constipated, so we backed off...

    I hope this helps with his sleeping.  DH and I are getting frustrated.

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  • xxbabycakesxxxxbabycakesxx member
    breakfast and supper.  usually about 3 tbsp each meal.
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  • JoJoMama730JoJoMama730 member
    Breakfast and dinner, about 2 Tbsp each "meal" but I think G would eat more at some of the sittings, so I'll probably start offering more.  She's not fully crawling or standing yet.

     

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  • yaeger16yaeger16
    E gets 2-3 meals a day (depending on what we have going on, but it's usually 3) and eats between 3-4 oz at each meal. He also gets puffs about once a day because he loves them!
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  • TMNTgirlTMNTgirl member

    My chunker gets 3 meals a day - about 4oz of solids each with some random finger foods thrown in there as well.

    He also has 22-24oz of formula a day.

    He STTN.

    He's very active with crawling, pulling up, etc. Between bottles and solids he eats every 2-3 hours during the day. I feel like I'm feeding him all day long, but he goes 12 hours at night without eating, so that's fine with me!

    He's 8 months old today and I got him weighed yesterday and he was 20lbs exactly.

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