feeding question

Re: feeding question

• namara5532 member

  September 2012

  DS isn't getting a huge variety either.  He mainly gets yogurt, bananas and squash with the occassional avocado, pears, peas, and chicken.  I just bought him some baby rice crackers I plan to start giving him for snacks.  We're still at 2 meals a day, but that's more my fault than his.

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• aboynamedbarry member

  September 2012

  Just my opinion, but it sounds like both of you are doing a great job, especially for this age. I wasn't planning to start my daughter on 3 meals a day until she was more like 9-10 months, however, she has showed interest for it and now does have 3 meals with no protest, so that's what we do! anyways, I give her a fruit with oatmeal in the am, usually 3 cubes (which are just under 2 oz each), lunch is 1 cube of fruit mixed with plain yogurt (her FAVE!) and a veggie, dinner is between 3-5 cubes of food with oatmeal. I don't give her rice because we have poo issues, meaning she doesn't if I am not careful with what I give her.
  
  I have been thinking of new things to give her though and these may be some to add to the rep, I love the pasta idea so that's one. The other thing I am going to do this week is get some beans and cook those up and create some beans to add into meals for protein. And also, I am going to try out hard boiled egg yolk. It is the egg white they aren't supposed to eat before 1. She also eats something she can feed herself at almost every meal, but it usually ends up being more play unless i put it in her mouth. She tries so hard but gets frustrated.
  

   I also add spinach to almost every veggie. I tried this two ways and the second worked MUCH better. first way was to steam the spinach, which cooks down to basically nothing. It was next to impossible to process in the food processor this way. Second way was to just put fresh spinach straight in the food processor and add breastmilk (or you can use water) and blended away. It makes a nice rich in vitamins dark green puree which i freeze into very small ice cubes (like only fill each cube in the tray a small amount) because it is very dense.
  
  Anyways, hope that gives you some ideas of what to try, but sounds like you're doing great!
  

  

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• lp0 member

  September 2012

  I also feel like I need more variety for ds. For breakfast he eats oatmeal with fruit. For lunch it's mixed grain cereal with fruit or pastina and either yogurt or bits of cheese. For dinner I mix some kind of meat and veggie, usually chicken that I boil and pur?e but I've recently tried turkey and fish. So far so good he loves everything. I still breast feed a few times a day between meals and he gets puffs and mum mums.

  
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• kaybe24 member

  September 2012

  I feel like we too are stuck in a rut: fruit puree with oatmeal for breakfast and veggie puree with rice for dinner. I just added the baby yogurt for lunch and I offer him Puffs after each meal. I gave him bits of mozarella string cheese and he liked that and sometimes whatever we're eating like sweet potato fries or beans.

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