solids and BM/formula breakdown

wholenewworld · November 2013

Sorry if this has been asked 100000 times already.

Just wondering, what is your 8/9 month old's eating regimen? We are still doing 5-6 bottles of formula per day and 2 food meals. Daycare is encouraging us to add on another food meal. I always heard that "food under one is just for fun", so I'm afraid to add a meal and have him cut a bottle. I'm afraid he won't get enough nutrition that way because he doesn't eat all that much food in a sitting. We try to get in a vegetable, a little fruit, some cottage cheese, and a grain in those two meals, but usually it ends up being mostly veggie and very little grain.

What are you guys doing?

colinsfebmommy · November 2013

Mine has been eating all his bottle and been at a morning meal and dinner meal. We have added on lunch now and more water to start lowering as many bottles as I have been giving

DublinMama · November 2013

We just went to three meals a day, but it hasn't affected his formula intake just yet. He gets yogurt or eggs with cheerios or toast in the a.m., a veggie for lunch, and chicken with cheese or hummus and a fruit if he wants it for dinner. Tonight for supper he had pastina pasta with chicken and sauce and the rest of his yogurt from breakfast. He also took in 32 ozs. of formula. He loves food, and so far he hasn't dropped any bottles so I'm going with the flow.

Puck1182 · November 2013

DD still nurses 5-6 times a day (or gets pumped breast milk if I'm at work), an usually eats three meals AND a snack every day. And big meals too. 6 tbsp of cereal mixed with an oz of fruit in the morning. 3 oz total for lunch (combo of protein, fruit and/or veggie), a mid afternoon snack of puffs, and 3 to 4 oz for dinner (usually 1 oz protein and 2 - 3 oz of veggies). It's ridiculous.

She's very tall, but on the slender side for her height, and since she doesn't seem to have decreased her breast milk intake (I estimate she gets 25-30 oz a day) and eats a big variety of foods, I have no concerns about nutrition. If she was dropping nursing sessions in favor of solids I'd be a bit concerned, but the solids are all I addition to the feeds she was doing before we started solids.

I figure she is going to be like I was: slender, but a bottomless pit with a man-sized appetite. ;-)

kleigh926 · November 2013

DD gets 3 meals of solids and still nurses 5 times during the day. She seems to love eating, but hasn't dropped any nursing sessions since we added lunch.

musicalmama5 · November 2013

We are doing BLW so DS's solids are pretty random. One day he eats a ton, next day almost nothing.

But I just wanted to chime in here and say that YOU are the mom so you decide how much and what your child eats. DC doesn't get to make those decisions. Follow your baby's lead.

asoetenga · November 2013

Three meals, three bottles. Mostly all finger foods. He's a hefty boy and good eater.

ally2011 · November 2013

Fruit purée with 1-2 tbsp of oatmeal cereal mixed in for bfast, fruit for lunch, vegetable for dinner. Going to add in the chicken dinner things this week in place of the vegetables. All puréed but hoping to start transitioning to more real food soon. We were late to the solids party, no real interest until 8 months though we started trying on and off at 6. Still nurses every 3-4 hours for 5 minutes or less. Sometimes slightly longer. If weight and growth are fine don't over think it.

a&s05 · November 2013

DD is a few days shy of 9months. She gets 3 meals a day plus a snack and nurses on demand about 6 times a day. Breakfast is a fruit with either pancake, oatmeal, Cheerios, or eggs. Lunch is a veggie puree. A mid afternoon snack of puffs or mum mums. Dinner is usually what we are eating. For ex tonight she had grilled chicken, brown rice and steamed broccoli. Her favorite thing right now has been black beans. She loves to eat and hasn't cut back on nursing much.

djm31012 · November 2013

DS takes about 28 oz a day of formula plus 3 meals but we just added a 3rd meal like 2 weeks ago..before that it was just bfast and dinner. For breakfast he has something like yogurt and a piece of toast or fruit (altho we just gave him an egg today for the first time and he loved it!) Lunch is usually a veggie puree and some puffs...dinner is random...pasta, steamed peas & carrots, potatos, etc (solid tho, not puree). We havent introduced any meat yet but likely will soon, I have turkey meatballs in the crock pot right now and will probably give him a taste. Follow your babys lead...if he is hungry, give another meal or at least a snack...if not, then keep doing what you are doing!

Kristie330 · November 2013

DD is eating three full meals per day( oatmeal, Cheerios, and fruit for breakfast, protein, starch, and veg for lunch and again at dinner). She basically eats what we eat and mostly table food with a few purées. She did drop a bottle, she takes 4 sessions of breastfeeding or pumped bottle. I estimate 16oz per day. She was at the doc last week who said she is perfect on her growth curve and getting all the nutrients she needs. So every baby is individual some needs more some less. Just go with your gut and your baby GL!

Rynleigh · November 2013

We are doing three "meals" and snacks like cheerios and crackers throughout the day, with three 8-10oz cups of formula, and then just water if they are still thirsty.

holly321 · November 2013

DS takes about 9 bottles a day, 4-6 oz. and does a morning and evening meal.

wholenewworld · November 2013

Thanks everyone! It's helpful to see what everyone else has been doing, and I got some good food ideas, too.

penguingrrl · November 2013

My son still nurses 5-7 times a day, although I have no idea how many oz. He has slowly added 3 meals of solids without slowing down that much on nursing.

My oldest was bottle fed and drank 32 oz a day from when we switched to bottles at 2 months until she switched to milk at 1 year. From 6-12 months she ate more and more solids in addition to 32 oz of milk. DD1 and DS have boh increased solids without slowing down their nursing sessions so I'm pretty sure they genuinely needed/need the food in addition to milk prior to 12 months.

My pedi said no more than 1 solids meal a day before 9 months, but SIL is a ped and disagrees. She be;ieves that as long as they're also getting enough milk/formula some kids absolutely need more than just milk by 8-9 months. My 2 EBF kids were also over 20 lbs by 6 months, so I'm unsurprised that they would need more than milk at that point.

As far as what DS eats. He does fruit or veggies at every meal (some purees, some steamed and cut small, whole peas), and otherwise he eats pretty much everything we eat in solid form. He loves pasta, chicken and fish. He eats a good amount of everything, too. If he does purees he'll finish 6 oz of purees followed by some grain of some sort (what one varies) and top it off by nursing quite a bit. I'm scared for his teen years lol!

Drea926 · November 2013

I was going to post that we just started adding lunch but that DS's formula intake was still at 40 ounces (5 8oz bottles). But if today was any indication, he wants to drop a bottle. He'd still be getting about 32 ounces of formula so I think we're good!

eatdrinkstretch · November 2013

My baby (9.5 mo) gets about 16-20 ounces of breastmilk per day plus 3 meals of solids. She sometimes also gets a couple of ounces of water or WCM. My ped said that that BM was totally normal for a baby getting so many solids, especially a baby eating protein, and just to leave what I could pump. So she gets about 9 ounces total during the day.

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