Feeding solids

Jackiemxoxo · June 2013

For those of you who have started solids, what time of the day do you give them? Morning, afternoon, evening? Does it make a difference and how long after bf or formula?

myskyegirl · June 2013

I have no idea if we are doing it correctly, but, we give appox 1oz of rice cereal mixed w/apple baby food and 3oz - 4oz of formula once a day, for her 6pm feeding. then she two more bottle feedings (8pm and 10pm) and sttn.

dlbello23 · June 2013

I recently had the same question, I usually feed her solids once a day around 6pm. She eats about a half a jar of food and then will have a four ounce bottle at about 730 then go to sleep and sttn.

aelhunt · June 2013

Feed her solids between bottles (full bottles) in the afternoon about 3pm. I will start her on 2 meals a day next week when I am out for the summer. I will do one about 9am and the othere 3pm.

MidaComida · June 2013

2.5 oz of solids followed by 3 oz of dormula once a day around 11:00 AM

robyn2201 · June 2013

With DD1, we started with dinner. A few weeks later added in lunch and finally breakfast. We are doing the same with DD2. We do BLW, so DD2 might get a few pieces of cooked carrot to eat. But she mostly just plays with it and doesn't eat anything. We always offer solids, 30-60 min after nursing.

kescalera · June 2013

It wasn't long after we introduced solids Killian started preferring them over his bottles so we had to do some adjusting from the usual recommendation of bottle 1st then solids as he would refuse the bottle until we gave him his mushed banana & yogurt. Now he gets a bottle as soon as he wakes up from either a nap or in the morning, then before his morning nap he gets a tablespoon of mushed something (avocado, banana or sweet potato) mixed with a tablespoon of plain greek yogurt. That way I know he's still getting most of his nutrition from the bottle while still enjoying the new flavors of solids.

We're introducing carrots and maybe kale this week too!

minervacullen · June 2013

I just do it at dinner time. I did let her gnaw on a carrot a little bit ago to help with her teething, but nothing major.

Jacqui105 · June 2013

Since we are breastfeeding, I will be offering once a day to start, an hour after a nursing session. That is just to hopefully have her not reduce her milk intake and keep my supply up. We will do it probably dinner time to start.

laura1 · June 2013

With my other 2, I started with either lunch time or dinner time, usually about 30-60 minutes after their bottle/breast feeding. With #3, I am lucky if I can remember that she needs to eat, so I do it when I remember. We have only been doing it this week, but so far we did: 4ish pm on Tuesday, 6ish pm Wednesday, Forgot totally on Thursday (we had kids school show at 6pm, so I did bath for them all at 4pm, got them ready, then did dinner out at 5pm before the show - we got home after 8 and everyone needed to go to bed!), and at 12pm on Friday.

She seems to be fine with it Smile

Notwifezilla7 · June 2013

I do a fruit/veg around lunch time. Usually about 2 oz which is smack between nursing sessions. Then I do cereal mixed w/fruit around dinner time. She has reflux so the ped recommended the cereal to see if it helped w/the reflux. Lo & behold it's helped a bit.

ngarden01 · June 2013

Jack usually gets some of whatever I am eating, when I eat. We've been doing BLW for about a month now and just a few days ago he actually starting "eating" the food and not just mushing it up and spitting it out or playing with it.

I do make sure he nurses first before eating any solids though.

ForeverEverAfter · June 2013

I started giving solids this week, and I just give it at mealtimes while Im eating. She usually nurses before I cook, so its around 30-60 min after nursing, sometimes less. We're doing BLW, and she only seems to actually eat at supper, the other times she just plays with the food.

gakester8 · June 2013

weekdays we do it at dinner, weekdays we usually do it at lunch. we both want to be there for the solid feedings, but we also found that the sugar from fruits isn't the best at dinner b/c he get a rush from it and stays awake longer and fights sleep. we usually do it 10 min- 1 hour after we feed him, just depending on when our dinner gets finished.

peacelove&mama · June 2013

We have been giving him a little bit of mashed up whatever veggie we're having with dinner about a half hour after he nurses in the evening.

kcharette83 · June 2013

If it's a new food, we give it to her in the morning. This way, if an allergy will present itself, we'll be able to watch her through the day and not have to worry about a problem arising in the middle of the night while she sleeps! But other than that, she eats three meals a day (breakfast is usually plain yogurt or cereal with her new thing) lunch (yogurt with a fruit) and then dinner (cereal with a veggie) and a 6 oz bottle. She still has about 6 6oz bottles a day!

StefandTodd · June 2013

He eats whatever we're eating whenever we're eating and he's awake. I don't really pay attention to when he last nursed, but if he's hungry for milk he'll get frustrated trying to feed himself and I will nurse him while I'm eating dinner and then put him back in his seat to finish his "meal"...food before 1 is for fun, so it's all just very loose for us and however it works out, it works out. Sometimes he sleeps through our dinner or breakfast...so then he just misses that meal. Nothing too hard and fast.

BrittanyDoesDerby · June 2013

StefandTodd:
He eats whatever we're eating whenever we're eating and he's awake. I don't really pay attention to when he last nursed, but if he's hungry for milk he'll get frustrated trying to feed himself and I will nurse him while I'm eating dinner and then put him back in his seat to finish his "meal"...food before 1 is for fun, so it's all just very loose for us and however it works out, it works out. Sometimes he sleeps through our dinner or breakfast...so then he just misses that meal. Nothing too hard and fast.

Yup, this is basically what we do as well.

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