Breakfast for Baby?

shurjen · January 2013

What do you feed your baby for breakfast? I think baby is ready for a 3rd meal and I really don't know where to start. So far we have been eating purees and finger foods - about a 50-50 mix. Do you do anything different or special for breakfast?

NiniJ55 · January 2013

I do pur?ed fruit or a little yogurt first then she gets whatever DS gets for breakfast and I feed them together.

Regular oatmeal with cinnamon and fresh fruit (most days), waffles with sunbutter & jelly (DD has a peanut allergy), zucchini bread & jelly-- stuff like that.

i would give whatever you would eat for breakfast. DS used to love eggs at this age (DD is also egg allergic) so I used to do scrambled eggs a lot for him.

silvie25mar · January 2013

I'm glad you posted this. Dd is 9 months and for breakfast I still feed her baby cereal with fruit. I feel like I'm running out of options for meals. She does eat scrambled egg yolks but still. Lunch usually consists of mashed fruit; and dinner meat and veggies. Help me be creative! She's for no teeth yet

graceandsweetpea · January 2013

We do a fruit pure mixed with mix grains or oatmeal... For lunch veggies... For dinner meats and veggies... All pures... He is very good at gumming... So we give him snacks and bits of our food. He also has a sippy of water he drinks from throughout the day and he has bottles of milk in between. He is 10 months Sunday... Took a while for him to be a good eater... He will eat 9 ounces sometimes in one sitting! Otherwise it's usually 4 to 5 ounces a meal.

llc730 · January 2013

DD's breakfast is pretty standard at this point. She eats a handful of low-sugar cereal (Cherrios, Kix), a couple ounces of yogurt, and half a banana (I cut slices in halves or quarters depending on the size of banana). Scrambled eggs, bagels, pancakes, and blueberries have also been popular.

diana.filipi · January 2013

DS almost always gets Scrambled eggs. He also gets one or two other things so he has choices: bacon, toast with butter, raisins, mandarin slices, peaches or pears, diced cheddar, cut up pancake or waffle, banana slices

dizzycooks · January 2013

Any type of fruit + a carb and/or protein

Today she had scrambled eggs with spinach and cheese and grapefruit.

Yesterday was berries and french toast.

All the other posters had great suggestions!

acaudill75 · January 2013

I see a lot of people posting about feeding their kids eggs. I don't really have a problem with that, and I am not bashing them, but I was told by pedi. not to give my kids eggs until after their first birthday. Something to do with possible egg allergies and vaccinations being grown in eggs. So, I didn't give DD1 eggs until after her first birthday, and am doing the same with DD2. I don't know that I agree with it, but it is easy enough to not include them. I'm just throwing it out there as a consideration. Obviously, these children don't have egg allergies and are just fine. I wonder why my pedi. said it, and no one else's did?

OP, I give both my girls yogurt in the morning, with a banana (DD2's is mushed up pretty good as she just cut her bottom two teeth yesterday). Water to drink, and some cheerios if she is still fussy. An hour or so later, I give DD2 her first bottle of formula for the day.

Jen0204 · January 2013

We give the girls scrambled eggs a lot, usually with a little bit of cheddar cheese sprinkled on top. We also give them oatmeal a lot, they split a banana often, and we finish with yogurt sometimes. I gave them whole wheat toast with cream cheese and jelly last week that I cut into strips but I think most of it ended up on their clothes.

To PP, our pediatrician has given us the okay on eggs and just said to make sure they're fully cooked. The only foods that he's asked us to wait on are peanut butter and honey. From what I've seen on these boards pediatricians are all over the place on lots of different topics.

acaudill75 · January 2013

Jen0204:

We give the girls scrambled eggs a lot, usually with a little bit of cheddar cheese sprinkled on top. We also give them oatmeal a lot, they split a banana often, and we finish with yogurt sometimes. I gave them whole wheat toast with cream cheese and jelly last week that I cut into strips but I think most of it ended up on their clothes.

To PP, our pediatrician has given us the okay on eggs and just said to make sure they're fully cooked. The only foods that he's asked us to wait on are peanut butter and honey. From what I've seen on these boards pediatricians are all over the place on lots of different topics.

Yeah, I know lots of people who give eggs to their kids. I also know someone who gave their kid a reesus cup to their infant!!! I don't judge, but I was surprised. It was a dad, not the mom. My mom was told to give me soft boiled eggs at my two month check up. I am fine. Your girls are almost one, and I really don't believe that things are as black and white as the experts want us to believe. DD2 is not 10 months old yet, and therefore may be too young? I was more throwing it out there because my pedi. made such a fuss about it, that I wanted others to know that it MIGHT be a concern, not that it should necessarily be a concern. Two years from now, they will be telling us to give our kids a glass of chardonnay with their formula if we want them to develop more brain cells. Who knows?

salt78 · January 2013

Waffle, french toast, an egg, yogurt, oatmeal with fruit. Obviously not all on the same day. We mix it up.

Jen0204 · January 2013

acaudill75:
Yeah, I know lots of people who give eggs to their kids. I also know someone who gave their kid a reesus cup to their infant!!! I don't judge, but I was surprised. It was a dad, not the mom. My mom was told to give me soft boiled eggs at my two month check up. I am fine. Your girls are almost one, and I really don't believe that things are as black and white as the experts want us to believe. DD2 is not 10 months old yet, and therefore may be too young? I was more throwing it out there because my pedi. made such a fuss about it, that I wanted others to know that it MIGHT be a concern, not that it should necessarily be a concern. Two years from now, they will be telling us to give our kids a glass of chardonnay with their formula if we want them to develop more brain cells. Who knows?

Sorry, I should have been more clear. My pediatrician said at their 6 month appointment that they could have fully cooked eggs.

LuckyMarley · January 2013

We do banana, Cheerios, yogurt, blueberries, pancakes, waffles (not all together obvs)

I am struggling with lunch time. Any new ideas there?

acaudill75 · January 2013

LuckyMarley:

We do banana, Cheerios, yogurt, blueberries, pancakes, waffles (not all together obvs)

I am struggling with lunch time. Any new ideas there?

Pasta? Gerber has little ravioli things. I don't generally like prefab food because I worry about sodium, and well, its not fresh. I keep them around for when I get home from work and and all holy you know what is breaking loose. I recently gave DD2 the spinach and cheese ones, cut up so that she could mash them in her mouth real good. She didn't gag, and didn't spit any of it up, so I guess it was a success. But plain or lightly buttered pasta is always a winner with my girls. DD2 can pick it up and feed herself, which she prefers to me feeding her (I take too long and she gets frustrated). I can't speak for much else, because they didn't have teeth to chew with until later, so everything was/is pureed if they can't mash it. The beauty of ravioli is if you know how to make them, you can put a lot of different things in the cheese, and LO won't know it. I don't know how to make them, but I wish I did.

skibunny59 · January 2013

DD loves eggs. I scramble just the yolks with a little bit of cheddar cheese and serve it as finger food. I also gave her blueberry pancakes the other day and she loved that. She also really likes yogurt for breakfast and bananas.

jgallegos0316 · January 2013

I have been doing scrambled eggs for about 2 weeks, my LO will be one tomorrow... He loves them as well as pancakes and waffles and also applesauce muffins.... We usually do one of those with some sort of fruit mixed with yogurt or cottage cheese.

contourhands · January 2013

ninthgirl:
Usually a fruit puree mixed in with regular (not low or no fat) Greek yogurt with a few Cheerios for finger food.

This exactly!

tootlebug · January 2013

All of the above...and this may sound weird but my girls love the pepperidge farm cinnamon bread, toasted, with applesauce spread on it.

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