So how are your babies eating now?

willadieselstm · April 2013

DS is now only getting a morning and evening bottle or 6-8oz a piece. Between there he gets breakfast, a 10am snack and sippy of WCM, lunch, then a 2pm snack and sippy of WCM. Then dinner. Then his nighttime bottle. Is this about what everyone else is doing? I worry that he isn't getting enough milk, but he is eating so much at meal and snack times I guess I shouldn't worry. He is a great eater, but not that interested in drinking from his sippy. At snack times I literally follow him around and make him drink in between playing.

picklesx · April 2013

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner he has regular food and 4 or 5 ounces of WCM in a sippy. Depending on how early he woke up, he might get a small snack of two crackers or some cheerios between breakfast and lunch with some water in a sippy. His afternoon snack includes a cup of milk, and he has another cup of milk at bedtime.

ELF4321 · April 2013

I'm having trouble getting DD to drink WCM. She would never take formula from a cup either, just water. I'm mixing wcm into her bottles now and am going to gradually increase the amount to get her used to the taste. I'll deal with ditching the bottles later. She's down to less than 20 oz and eating more solids at least.

GromMom · April 2013

Lo gets breakfast, lunch and dinner with water and nurses for naps and bedtime. I'm phasing out the afternoon nursing with my frozen stash, but lo only falls asleep without nursing if he is exhausted. I'm wondering how to integrate wcm, just give him done when he turns one? I'm still afraid he won't nap or go to sleep without nursing, but maybe he is just not ready yet.

littleredfish · April 2013

A regular day is BF when she wakes up, (go to day care during the week) light breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, (come home from daycare) supper, BF before bed.

Stress, anxiety and a weird work schedule when I started back to work killed my supply so we have been doing 2 BF sessions a day for a while now. She took BM bottles from my freezer stash at daycare before each nap (1 after breakfast and 1 after lunch) for about 2 months but kind of started to wean herself off the bottle when my stash ran out and we had to switch to formula at daycare. We tried to find a formula she'd eat but there was nothing she really took to. Now she's basically started refusing bottles flat out, so as of last week she's on WCM in sippy cups with each meal. Nothing before naps because she no longer needs/wants it.

[Deleted User] · April 2013

ELF4321:
I'm having trouble getting DD to drink WCM. She would never take formula from a cup either, just water. I'm mixing wcm into her bottles now and am going to gradually increase the amount to get her used to the taste. I'll deal with ditching the bottles later. She's down to less than 20 oz and eating more solids at least.

My DD is not a fan of straight from the fridge WCM. And this is coming from a mom who never owned a bottle warmer! she's just used to room temp formula. so we've been letting her milk sit for about half an hour before giving it to her and it's helped a ton!

ebl2 · April 2013

DD still nurses all day. She gets some snacks of puffs or cheerios throughout the day but it's mostly still breast milk. She's never had cows milk and she's not a big fan of pureed food other than mashed potatoes.

The reason why she doesn't eat more solids is because she has a hard time chewing. I would too if I only had my two bottom front teeth. A couple weeks ago she got not her two front top teeth but the two on either side of the front ones. Yes, my child looks like Goofy. But they're still not long enough to really chew with anyway. So if the food can't be mashed with her tongue she wont get it. She's learning how to chew with what she has but it still makes me nervous to give her anything that could pose as a choking hazard to her. Slowly but surely she'll get there. In the meantime, I don't mind still nursing.

hopefulmom81 · April 2013

michyme123:
He is still drinking 4 6oz bottles of formula a day. He also has 3 full meals and snacks. He just started with a sippy so plan on weaning his lunch bottle and offering a sippy of WCM instead. I hope it goes smoothly he loves his formula...

My DD is the same. She cries and whines for her bottles every 3-4 hours even though she eats 3 full solid meals, snacks and water.

I haven't started on WCM yet, but I felt like I was the only one struggling with a LO and loads of bottles!

ELF4321 · April 2013

dayzchic9:
ELF4321:
I'm having trouble getting DD to drink WCM. She would never take formula from a cup either, just water. I'm mixing wcm into her bottles now and am going to gradually increase the amount to get her used to the taste. I'll deal with ditching the bottles later. She's down to less than 20 oz and eating more solids at least.
My DD is not a fan of straight from the fridge WCM.  And this is coming from a mom who never owned a bottle warmer!  she's just used to room temp formula.  so we've been letting her milk sit for about half an hour before giving it to her and it's helped a ton!   

I thought of that too and have been doing that for the past week. Still no luck. Ugh.

tarapike86 · April 2013

Emma weaned herself back in early march and had been on three 4 oz bottles of formula plus meals a day
Last week we started mixing formula and wcm and she is now on one morning bottle of half formula and half wcm, breakfast, lunch, bottle after nap, dinner, bottle before bed. She takes water out of a sippy at all meals. She has been on only table food for about 4 months now, no more baby food. She still has no teeth but does great with all foods as long as they are relatively soft. Her favorite is turkey and cheese sandwiches
Tara

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