Uh, so what is LO supposed to be eating these days?

AppleRidge · September 2011

We just got back from the pedi, and I forgot to ask how much and what he should be eating these days. At 7.5 months, we're doing cereal and fruit in the morning, puree at night and random finger food through the day, with maybe 6 six-ounce bottles. Does that sound right? What is your LO eating?

RileyGrace · September 2011

That sounds like about how much I give my LO, except he has zero interest in finger foods.

We offer 6 - 6oz bottles, he usually doesn't finish them. We do 2 oz of fruit in the morning, sometimes with a little cereal added. We usually do Yo-Baby yogurt for lunch, then 3 oz of veggies or some other combo for dinner. He always finishes breakfast and lunch, not always dinner.

jlotiz · September 2011

Our DD is a champ when it comes to eating. She is almost 8 mos.

She will eat about 3-4oz of cereal (oatmeal, rice, barley, or wheat) mixed with fruit. For lunch she will eat 3.5-4 oz of veggies. For dinner she will eat 3.5-4oz of meats or veggies and about 1.5-2oz of fruits. (she is not a big fan of fruits). Along with some finger foods randomly during the day.

She will nurse in the morning and night and have two bottles of milk during the day. Her bottles are only 4oz each, she won't drink more then that and her pedi said its fine.

AppleRidge · September 2011

discobelle:
What kinds of finger foods are yours eating? We haven't started those.

Bits of banana, chopped up pasta, dried fruit, yogurt melts, puffs or cheerios. Mine is a big fan of finger foods, and so am I since it's the only time he'll be entertained doing one thing for an hour.

Aviee · September 2011

L doesnt get anywhere near that much, although I have a feeling she'd love finger foods because she steals my food and chomps on it when I'm not looking. She hates veggies and meat so we have to sneak fruit into everything to make it sweet enough for her to eat it. She used to love veggies even after being introduced to fruits. I want to do pumpkin for her finger foods, but don't have time yet.

magdalina.h · September 2011

He drinks 30 oz of bm/formula and eats 3 jars of purees. Sometimes I give him little bites of my dinner.

Lilena · September 2011

Whenever he wakes up in the AM he ALWAYS drinks 6to 8oz of formula.

We do about 2oz of oatmeal every morning with 2oz (half a jar/tub) of fruit mixed in. And then he gets a 4 oz bottle of milk.

Lunch is 1 jartub of food either fruit or veg, and then usually a few bites of whatever I am having (that is fit for baby) 2oz of water/2oz of juice mixed into a bottle, basically I am diluting the juice as he actually wont take 4 oz of juice, i think it's too sweet. (ds is usually backed up so we just made this part of our routine to help with it and has been working great)

Dinner is always 3oz of a meat (or a half a jar of the big jars) that either has pasta or something in it with veg etc and 1 or 2oz of a veg. Gets 4 oz of milk (sometimes 6) Depending on what we are eating he gets some bites off my plate.

At dinner We have actually even started giving him what we are eating as long as I cut it up super small and feed him.

And he gets the little cereal crunchy puffs a few times during the day as a snack (LOVES these things)

He's really into finger foods already. Loves cut up banana (god they are so messy)

vflipo · September 2011

She has 4-5 5oz bottles/day. Fruit and cereal/oatmeal (and sometimes yogurt) in the am, veggies at lunch, and veggies and some finger foods for dinner.

okami.mami · September 2011

Luc eats like a large animal. We just went through an angry growth spurt, I mean he was so upset everytime a meal was over. Not cool. So now we're at 5 bottles p/day for a total of 23 ounces and 3 solid meals per day. His solids are 10 tablespoons per serving! I thought it was waaay too much, but he's not spitting or throwing up and he's content. I emailed his pedi and I'm waiting to hear back, but he seems great. He does snack here and there. One pack of mumm mumm's, a few puffs, plus he takes 3 ounces of diluted apple juice at noon time.

Lilleybug · October 2011

Ty has no interest in finger foods either, but he's drinking about 24oz of formula and 2 jars of baby food or fruit I have pureed. Funny he hates cooked/pureed carrots, but loves the carrots in the jar...go figure. He also likes the dissoluble crackers if HE feeds it to himself. If we try to put it in his mouth he gets the most disgusted grimace on his face, it's rather funny!

christyp80 · October 2011

Audrey takes five 7 ounce bottles throughout the day, and eats solids at lunch and dinner. She started refusing the spoon a few weeks ago, so now we're only doing finger food. She eats mac n cheese (so messy!!), tiny pieces of chicken or pasta, squash, green beans, soft pears or peaches, and then puffs, melts, etc.

One of my favorite things to feed her recently is a piece of wheat bread, spread with plain full-fat yogurt, and sprinkled with cinnamon (or other spices). I cut it up into 1 inch by 1/2 inch pieces, and she LOVES it. She can pick it up easily and it's not too slippery.

Oh, and one good piece of advice i read somewhere is to crush up cheerios or other cereal and roll the pasta or fruit in the cereal "dust". It makes the small, slippery foods easier to pick up and gives a little more nutrition too.

erbear · October 2011

Caroline is eating 3 meals (all finger foods except sometimes oatmeal in the morning), nurses morning and evening (and sometimes once overnight) and gets two bottles (5-6 ounces each) of pumped BM during the day.

momyof22b · October 2011

vflipo:
She has 4-5 5oz bottles/day. Fruit and cereal/oatmeal (and sometimes yogurt) in the am, veggies at lunch, and veggies and some finger foods for dinner.

This is pretty much exactly what our DD has every day

njh514 · October 2011

My daughter nurses and has 3 or 4 4oz bottles of breast milk at daycare. She gets everything she needs from breast milk so we don't push solids. Anything before 1 is just for fun. Anything she does eat is cut into fry shape and she eats on her own. I don't do any purees or cereal or any of that. She LOVES avocado and banana. She likes peaches, puffs, yogurt bites, squash, green beans, and some other fruits and veggies I'm not remembering right off. She usually has 1 thing a day at dinner time when we eat. There's no real need for it but she enjoys it when she has it.

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