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July 2011 Moms
jlsimon56
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eating "schedule"
jlsimon56
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I put schedule in quotes b/c I know with babies, nothing is ever the same. :-)
As they are reaching 1yr, some of us are cutting out bottles, some are not.... Some of us are on sippy cups, straw cups, real cups, etc. and some are not (my LO!).... Some of us are still doing some purees (or trying to use them up, haha!) and some have not had purees in months or ever!
Can you go through a typical day for what time your LOs are eating, and what they're eating?
Also, what are your goals? Like, no more bottles by 1yr. Or, no bottles by 15 months. Or, wean off BFing by 18 months. Etc. Or, I have no goals, just playing it by ear.
Thanks!
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Re: eating "schedule"
7:30-BF
8:30-yogurt & banana, scrambled egg, or French toast
11:30-lunch
3ish-BF
5:30-dinner
7:30-BF
There is also one more nursing session during the night, usually between 3 and 5.
I don't really have any goals, per se. We'll just go with the flow!
5:00--BF
7:00--Breafast (eggs, pancakes, cold cereal)
8:00--BF
9:00--Small snack (usually a fruit and grain combo like blueberries with Wheat Thins)
11:30--Lunch (whatever we are having)
12:00--BF
3:00--BF and then another combo snack
5:30--Dinner (again, whatever we are having)
7:30--BF and to bed
My goal is to continue BF to a minimum of 18 months, but otherwise we are just going with the flow. He rarely gets a bottle now and takes a sippy just fine so I'm not too concerned with that.
We don't have a schedule in terms of time because DS wakes up a different time every day, so he nurses at different times and naps at different times. We just go with the flow.
My LO only likes finger foods if they are dry (Cheerios, puffs, cheese, etc.), so for his fruits and veggies, we still do purees.
My goal is to introduce WCM so he will drink that during the day when I start my job in July.
7:00am- breakfast. Usually toast, PB and fruit of some sort. Sometimes dried yogurt covered fruit or a puree pouch. On the weekends she gets what we get. Egg Bake, french toast, pancakes, eggs etc. Sippy cup with water.
9:00am-first morning bottle with nap.
11:30am-12:30pm (somewhere in there)- lunch. She has what we have. If we're having something she can't I give a steam veggie pouch (love those things!) Peas, Carrots, green beans, pepper sticks. Ham, hamburger, noodle dishes etc. She gets anything at this point like I said.
1pm-bottle and nap
4:00pm- Snack. More fruit, a stem veggie pouch, a mummum, cheese, yogurt etc. Whatever I got.
6:00ish- Dinner. Again whatever I have or am prepping for H and I. (We eat way late and she's in bed).
7pm- bottle and bed.
There's also one more random bottle at least thrown in there and one night wakeup for a bottle.
LO likes most things and has had everything with no reaction but honey. I just try to keep her diet varied as a result. She's not fussy but she likes a lot of a few things rather than a lot of one thing. She also gets a sippy cup of water at each meal and throughout the day. She's decent with it. Somedays are better than others but it's acceptable.
My goals for the immediate future are to cut down on bottles and be done by 18 months entirely with them. We were doing good then she got sick and I didn't want her dehydrated and felt bad for her so I gave them back for sanity's sake. It's also her biggest/only comfort item and I'm not willing to take that away from her just yet. Also, why she's not a bad eater she's not great, so I feel like she needs calories yet.
We will be done with formula the day she turns 1. She had enough dairy by now that I'm not worried about milk issues. She's also drink anything in a bottle, so I'm not overly worried she hates it. I meant to try milk in a sippy this week but she's sick and I didn't want to start anything new. We'll try in two weeks after our vacation is over.
6:30- Sippy cup with 6 oz of formula and breakfast. (Cheerios, banana and oatmeal is a typical breakfast.)
9:00- 6 oz sippy of formula
12:00- Lunch
1:00 or 1:30- 6 oz sippy
3:00-4:00 (when up from nap)- Snack (raisins, fruit, wagon wheels, etc.)
5:30- Dinner
6:30- 6 oz sippy
We have no real goals, just start to introduce soy milk soon!
Add (ish) to all of these times. They aren't hard and fast.
4am bottle
7am pancake and yogurt (and sippy cup with water that he DOES NOT drink)
9am bottle
10am snack (water)
11am lunch (water)
1pm bottle
3pm snack (water)
5:30pm dinner
6:15pm bottle
We'll miss you sweet Debbie Girl (4.21.12) and sweet Cindy Girl (8.9.12)
Wake 7:00 - 6 oz bottle formula
8:00ish Breakfast - fruit puree, cereal, or toast, and cut up fruit (whatever I have, we usually share i.e. he'll get 1/2 banana), or eggs instead of cereal/ toast.
11:00ish wake from nap - 6 oz bottle (or less, he usually doesn't finish it)
12:30 Lunch - some puree, usually veg, and fingers foods i.e.) cut up fruit, cheese, pasta noodles etc.
3:00/3:30 - 6oz bottle
5:30 Dinner - meat/ veg puree (jar), some fruit puree and some type of finger food i.e.) boiled veg., bread, fruit, puffs etc.
7:30 - bedtime bottle 6oz.
Now he is taking 4 bottles because I am still doing EASY (eat when he wakes from naps), so not sure how I'm going to alter this for DC, which he will start at 13 months old. When he is in DC I think I'll just do morning and bedtime bottles, perhaps, and see how it goes. No real clue though, will probably talk to his Dr. about a suitable plan at his 1 yr. appt.
Yup.
6:00 am Wakeup BF
7:00 am Breakfast (on weekends we try to share what we eat. On weekdays cut up fruit and eggs and frozen waffles or pancakes or the like)
8:00 am BF
10:00 am BF
12:00 pm Lunch (fruit/ steamed veggies with ham or beans or cheese)
2:00 pm BF
3:00 pm snack (Quaker salt free rice cakes, tortilla with hummus, cheerios etc)
5:00 pm BF
6:00 pm dinner (usually something of what we eat) and end with a little oatmeal baby cereal.
7:15 pm BF
He used to nurse every 3 hrs but since he started STTN he has been wanting to nurse more often during the day. I thought he would regulate back to 3 hrs but it hasn't happened yet.
I hope he will start using a sippy cup when I go back to school in August. He can use the straw sippy cup but can't get to the bottom, keeps trying to tip it up like its a bottle.
I also hope that he will get a handle of silverware (no idea of when this 'should' happen). And When he gets some teeth on both jaws I hope he will eat what we eat.
When she wakes up, she has a bottle. This can be any time from 6-10am.
3 hours after that, she has a meal and some water
^^Repeat twice
Before bed she has another bottle.
I have no goals really except trying to get her to use the sippy better.
7am - BF
8am - Breakfast ~ yogurt, pancakes, typical breakfast food..
11am - BF
12pm - Lunch ~ straw cup with WCM, fruit, cheese, lunch meat, leftovers from dinner..
3pm - BF
5pm - Dinner ~ straw cup with WCM and whatever we are eating
7:30-8pm - BF
We are weaning but I don't have a set time she needs to be weaned by but I'd kinda like her to drop the 11&3 BF sessions for WCM sometime soon..
She's actually eating lately, so it's something like:
9am- bottle
10/11am- Some kind of cereal or puffs, and maybe some yogurt melts.
12pm- bottle/nap
2pm- More cereal/puffs/yogurt melts
5pm- bottle/nap
7pm- Sometimes I can get her to eat raviolis, but usually a dry waffle and probably more yogurt melts.
10pm- bottle/bedtime
So all in all, she's still getting about 24-26oz formula per day and lots of yogurt melts.
* All of her bottles are actually sippy cups now, she stopped taking regular bottles about 3wks ago.
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Ok, so apparently I am the only one still BFing so much...hmm...my DD isn't a big solids eater though.
Add (ish) to all...also add some puffs or crackers throughout the day
8 - BF
9:30 - breakfast - usually something jarred with prunes in it (she needs this daily) and sometimes some puffs
10:30 - BF and nap
12:30 - BF
2 - lunch - usually some cut up fruit/veggies, protein (chicken, scrambled egg, quinoa, beans, etc.) or pasta with butter and parmesan, and some cheese
3:30 - BF and nap
5 - BF
6:30 - dinner - whatever we're eating
8:30 - BF and bed
12am - BF - dreamfeed
5am - BF
Ohh I am right there with you!!! My schedule is almost the same as this just starts and ends earlier (wake by 7 and bed by 730). We had her going from 730-5ish with no feeding through the night but she has started again. I think my supply might be dropping due to the new pregnancy but Im not sure. However, my DD loves solids...she can't get enough!! I think she has been so active lately so more food.
8:30/9 am- breakfast- waffle/pancake/eggs/or yogurt with fruit
10:30- Cheerios snack (about 1/2-1 cup)
11- 7 ounce bottle
12:30- lunch- grilled cheese, or a fruit/cheese/veggie mix
3- Either a bottle or puffs snack- depends on him.
5- dinner- whatever we're having
7- 5 ounce bottle then bed.
I have no plan. I'm not going to force him into givings up things he's just not ready to, so we'll see.