Moms of 6-7 month olds...Can you share your feeding "schedules" with me?

I feel like I am not giving enough solids, and I just wanted to check in with other momies and see what they are doing...

Thanks!

Erin

Re: Moms of 6-7 month olds...Can you share your feeding "schedules" with me?

bump.

Re: Moms of 6-7 month olds...Can you share your feeding "schedules" with me?

Depending on when he wakes up, it tends to change.

He gets a 3 oz. bottle 4-5am, because I'm trying to cut that bottle out totally.

7- 7:30am- 7 oz. bottle

9:00am- one level 2 fruit

10-10:30am- 5 oz bottle

12 pm- He gets some puffs, and maybe a teething cookie ((just started with this, because he is mashing and chewing his food now))

3:00pm- 7 oz bottle


5:30 pm- 1 fruit, 1 veggie. Finishing what we have of the level 1, but will start level two once we're done, so it will probably we 1/2 a fruit, and 1 veggie, since there bigger

7:00- 8 oz bottle

Re: Moms of 6-7 month olds...Can you share your feeding "schedules" with me?

DS was eating
6:30 AM: nursing session
7:30 Am: 3 tbsp. oatmeal, 1 oz BM and some fruit
10:30-11:00 AM: 6 oz bottle of BM
12:00-12:30 PM: 2 oz of meat/veggie mixed (jarred) or 2 oz homemade meat and 2 oz. veggie
3:30 PM: 6 oz. bottle of BM
5:00 PM: puffs
6:45-7:00 PM: nursing session
7:45 PM: 4 tbsp. cereal, 1 oz BM and some fruit

Re: Moms of 6-7 month olds...Can you share your feeding "schedules" with me?

DD is 7 mths.

4 bottles a day, along with 3 solid feedings each day at the same meals. The bottles are always 8 oz but she may take anywhere from 4-8 of those oz.

The solid feedings, consist of 2 oz of a fruit or veggie (depends on what I am introducing or not), and 1-2 oz of oat cereal.

I have a book called Baby411 written by a ped and it says for 6-9 mths old, 24-30 oz of formula/BM a day, and 8-14 oz of solids a day (consisting of veggies, fruits, cereals, meats if applicable). So I go by that and feel I am doing the right thing overall. On most days, DD eats about 26 oz of formula and about 8-10 oz of solid food.

I don't know if I am varying it enough but I give the fruit in the am feeding, a fruit/veggie combo with the lunch feeding, and a veggie as the dinner solid. She eats about every 3-5 hrs b/w meals.

I offer the food first, then the bottle. My ped told me this was ok b/c DD is a big eater and is sure to take at least 4 oz of the bottle even after finishing her solid food. I "think" I am doing the right thing offering the solids and formula at the same feeding time. I know if I went to feed her many times throughout the day she would eat, so I just do the 4 meals b/c otherwise I would be a prisoner to her eating! So far it seems to be working.

Message edited 7/5/2009 11:21:49 AM.