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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
palma44
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How often is your 9 month old eating solids?
palma44
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I am just curious how often others 9 month olds are eating any form of solids each day? My LO is suddenly waking a lot to eat during the night and I am wondering if she is needing more during the day. I am going to try to add in an extra feeding today and see if it helps.
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Re: How often is your 9 month old eating solids?
E is ten months, but only just. She gets yogurt in the morning, then a 6 oz bottle of formula, lunch (solid, whatever they give her at DC, usually plain pasta or something she can mash with only two teeth), another bottle of formula at 2pm, a fruit puree as a snack around 3-4, something for dinner that I try to get in her before she gets cranky and wants to go to sleep since we don't get home until 5 ish, and then another bottle around six when she goes to sleep. Sometimes, she will want to sleep without dinner. Then we wake her at ten to give her the last bottle so that she gets enough "nutrients" and water, but she has been really cranky when we wake her, or has STTN when we have failed to wake up, so she might be ready to give up that bottle. She also gets cheerios or yogurt melts or such throughout the day if she gets a bit peckish. And a sippy cup with water whenever she wants, or we think she may want it. I think all that solid food is holding her over. Try giving LO oatmeal as a last meal. That stuff seems to keep them full for a while. Not the oatmeal you put in their bottle, but actual oatmeal with fruit or whatever. She is mobile, so burns through a lot of calories, if that makes any difference.
We do three solid food meals a day (8am, 11am, and 5pm), a snack @ DC at 2:30, and maybe a snack in the evening around 7pm. DD is fed 25oz of breast milk/formula (5oz at 5am, 3oz with solid food meals, 5oz at snack time, and 6 oz before bed). She has not woken for a MOTN feeding since 7 months of age. She is now starting to be more mobile, so we are playing with meal amounts to see what works. Hope this helps!
This was us too... once we went to 3 meals a day she stopped waking up. I was holding off on adding that 3rd meal bc LO is not a big eater, and it took her quite awhile to be able to eat 3 meals a day plus enough formula. Even now I see PP saying their kids eat 3 meals, sometimes snacks, and like 25oz a day... she averages maybe 18oz a day. But she has never been a big eater and is hitting her growth curve so I'm not worried. Pedi said at the 9 month to keep her on 16oz a day or more until she is a year so at least we are getting that.