Those with 9 month olds

june2012mom · February 2013

Hi all! How many ounces is your 9 month old getting per day? I called the doctor and they said 12-18 ounces. That seems so little.

wntrgrl83 · February 2013

DS and DD are now 10 months old, but at the 9 month check up I was told they should be getting a minimum of 18oz per day.

DiveFrog · February 2013

I think this is very child dependent honestly. Also depends on formula or BM. I have a peanut sized daughter. DD just had her 9 month visit and was only 14.7lbs.... Anyway, on a typical weekeday she nurses 3 times and takes 8-10oz of breastmilk. I'm guessing she takes in about 4oz a nursing session so she gets around 20-22oz a day. She loves solids and up until this week she has been having two good sized meals. She really packs it away for such a small baby

We just added in a solids lunch meal after talking with her doctor and I suspect after a few weeks this will cause her milk intake to drop down to around 18oz a day.

chefgirl182003 · February 2013

DS gets 20-24 oz, our pedi said he should be getting only 18 oz. But he was so hungry when we tried to cut back.

telyn · February 2013

Child and DAY dependent. Saturday she nursed 4, maybe 5 times and ate tons of solids. Sunday she nursed 8 times and needed 3 oz of formula and ate maybe a bowl of oatmeal and some avocado. Yesterday 16 oz of BM/formula, plus I nursed her 4 times in the evening and she just ate some yogurt. Today, she already ate 3 times with me this morning before work (4am, 7 am and one last 9 am feed), after her morning nap, DH said she had oatmeal and eggs with Daddy.

So, who knows? I just count the diapers- if she has at least 5 wets,that look clear and an average of at least 1 poop a day, I assuming the intake is going fine. If her wets start to look too yellow or drop in number, I add in a feed. If she hasn't pooped in 5 days, I break out the prunes and up the intake.

At this age though, she eats when she's hungry. She has even started snubbing the breast or bottle if she's not hungry!

RMama2012 · February 2013

24-26oz a day plus 3 meals a day. The solids are as much as he'll eat. Lately not much which I think is due to teething.

mierasm1 · February 2013

Our LO is eating 30 oz a day. Our ped said he shoudl be getting 4 bottles a day at 9 months

DanielleJoe09 · February 2013

Our son gets about 30 oz a day, he also gets veggies mid morning and a serving of veggies at night. He also picks off of our plates at dinner

Natali25 · February 2013

Our pedi told us we could feed LO 3 meals a day. At our 9 month check up he gave us an information sheet about meals and formula. It said he could have anywhere from 16-25oz. LO eats between 20-25oz. a day. But he is a few days short of 10 months.

macchiatto · February 2013

Our pedi said breast milk or formula should be the primary source of nutrition for the whole first year; solids are just for practice at that age (though of course you're in transition mode as you get closer to 1 but they still need that nutrition from that amount of formula). At 9m my boys were drinking 24-28 oz/day plus 3 meals of solids per day. She didn't want us to go below 21-24 oz/day.

Vuja_de · February 2013

My daughter is 10 months and she has anywhere from 18-20oz per day she nurses at night as well.

LadyTyler · March 2013

Nate takes 30-34oz and the pedi seemed to think that was good. Their practice also believes in mostly formula or BM for the first year (they actually recommend no more than 2 solid meals a day before 9 months) and slowly increase the solids to 3 meals and 1-2 snacks a day between 9-14 months as you wean off bottles. This works for us because Nate only eats a tiny bit at meals and is still taking 4-6 oz every two hours during the day.

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