9-10 mos. eating schedule

ladylisalt · June 2015

Im trying to cut down a bottle a day as I feed my DD more solids. I am wondering what everyone else's daily schedule is. How many meals? Bottles? Appox. what time? I realize there is no one set schedule just trying to gather ideas on what many do at this age/stage.

mrsjuliesparks · June 2015

My 9 mo old eats 3x times/day at 6:30am, 11:30am, and 6:30pm. She also gets four 7oz bottles at 8:30am, 12pm, 4pm, and 8pm.

ladylisalt · June 2015

mrsjuliesparks said:

My 9 mo old eats 3x times/day at 6:30am, 11:30am, and 6:30pm. She also gets four 7oz bottles at 8:30am, 12pm, 4pm, and 8pm.

This is helpful. Do you mind sharing what you have been doing for meals? I feel like my DD's meals are getting a little boring.

WillyBean · June 2015

We are right there with you. Our kiddos (just shy of 9 months) eat four times a day at 6ish, 11ish, 3ish and 530ish. They get a bottle (6-7 oz) followed right by solid food each time. I have started offering more solid food and I have noticed they don't often finish their "snack time" bottle. I wish their last meal was a little later, but they have always been ready for bed at about 630pm so can't do much with that.

As far as food goes, I try to do cereal with different fruits for breakfast or pancakes and sausage pieces. They like the yogurt with steel cut oats too. For lunch, they LOVE beans - pinto, lentils, etc - and I try to leave them leftovers from dinner (meats and veggies). We will mix pinto beans with pico and cheese and they are crazy about that. For their snack I usually give them puffs (to practice picking up), fruit, quinoa and maybe cottage cheese. And dinner is kind of hit and miss with food. Sometimes they are hungry for it but sometimes they are just too tired to focus. I keep those happy baby squeeze pouches on hand for this reason, that way if they don't finish it, it goes in the fridge until lunch time the next day. They pretty much eat what we eat, though, minus the obvious things they can't handle yet (honey, crunchy things, etc).

ladylisalt · June 2015

WillyBean said:

We are right there with you. Our kiddos (just shy of 9 months) eat four times a day at 6ish, 11ish, 3ish and 530ish. They get a bottle (6-7 oz) followed right by solid food each time. I have started offering more solid food and I have noticed they don't often finish their "snack time" bottle. I wish their last meal was a little later, but they have always been ready for bed at about 630pm so can't do much with that. As far as food goes, I try to do cereal with different fruits for breakfast or pancakes and sausage pieces. They like the yogurt with steel cut oats too. For lunch, they LOVE beans - pinto, lentils, etc - and I try to leave them leftovers from dinner (meats and veggies). We will mix pinto beans with pico and cheese and they are crazy about that. For their snack I usually give them puffs (to practice picking up), fruit, quinoa and maybe cottage cheese. And dinner is kind of hit and miss with food. Sometimes they are hungry for it but sometimes they are just too tired to focus. I keep those happy baby squeeze pouches on hand for this reason, that way if they don't finish it, it goes in the fridge until lunch time the next day. They pretty much eat what we eat, though, minus the obvious things they can't handle yet (honey, crunchy things, etc).

Just to make sure I understand you, they will drink 6-7 oz then eat directly after?

WillyBean · June 2015

Yup, the whole process is a little slow but I think they like the routine of it. They don't always drink their whole bottles or eat all of their food but this way was easiest for us. Otherwise it felt like I was feeding one baby or another all day long!

Bigboobsmcgee · June 2015

We still give about 4 bottles a day (maybe 24-26 oz total) and DD has 3 meals plus a snack. She literally eats whatever we are having for each meal of the day. Formula and BM are still more important right now than solids and babies will naturally start to decrease their milk intake but I wouldn't be purposely cutting out bottles.

leela02 · July 2015

DD eats 3x a day and has bottles in between meals and in the morning/before bedtime. She drinks the most formula in the morning and before bedtime. She doesn't drink much between meals, only a few oz here and there.

seamonkey0814 · July 2015

My son is about to turn 10 months. At 9 months we made two big changes: started giving lunch and stopped nursing be right before solids meals. Now we have three solids meals a day and nurse 5 times. I nurse him first thing in the morning, mid morning, mid afternoon, before bed and a dream feed at around 11pm. Just before I go back to work I plan to cut out the mid morning and afternoon feeds and replace with a small solid snack. I'll keep nursing in the morning and before bed if he wants it. I'm not sure about the late night feed. I'm not sure how long to keep that up.

georgia1977 · August 2015

My son has been doing 3 meals daily.oatmeal for breakfast with milk, snack of fresh fruit, nap then lunch is whatever I make an egg or left over stuff, veggies and fish or meats, then hour later 6oz bottle, little nap dinner and snack...batting T 7 in bed with b8oz bottle with cereal at night asleep by 745. Up at 7am. This has been going on now for 5 month's

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