I mentioned before that we started feeding Tori solid food. She now eats rice cereal, veggies, and fruits. Every 3 days, she gets something new and luckily, she hasn't disliked anything yet. Although, I am dreading the chicken in chicken broth. Yuck! Here's my situation though, how do you know how much to give her? Everything I read says, start with this amount and increase it. Great. When do I increase it? How much? When does food alone become a meal vs. a little bit of food with just a bottle?
Here is her current schedule:
7am - 6 oz. bottle
10am - 5 oz. bottle
1pm - 5 oz. bottle, some rice cereal, 1/3 of a small jar of baby food
4pm - 5 oz. bottle
6:30pm - some rice cereal, 1/3 small jar of baby food, a bottle (she never eats the full 5 oz here)
9pm - 5 oz. bottle
Should I replace her 1pm feeding with an entire jar of baby food? And the rice cereal...it seems to be just filler although I know it is fortified. Should she get it with every meal still?
It's too much!!
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I totally remember this transition. I struggled with it too! This is from my blog, Erin's eating at 6 months:
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an hour or so later - cereal and fruit
mid-AM - bottle (7 oz)
noon - veggie and maybe cereal
mid-PM - breastfeed
dinner - cereal and veggie
before bed - bottle (7 oz)
middle of night (if awake) - breastfeed
I would agree with Angelle that was about the same as me.
ReplyDeleteI did the same thing too. Lunch was baby food fruit and cereal, dinner was baby food veggie and cereal and everything else was milk.
ReplyDeleteI also added the cereal directly to the baby food to thicken it up instead of mixing the cereal with milk. I never measured it out, just put a scoop or two of oatmeal cereal usually with the fruit and rice cereal or mixed cereal into the veggies. Makes feeding the baby food less messy too. I think I ended the meals with a little bit of milk too if I thought she was thirsty. At about 8 months I started putting that after-meal milk into a sippy cup so she could start learning how to use that.
ReplyDeleteSo no milk with the "meals"? I tried not giving her a bottle tonight and she finally ate almost an entire jar. We gave her some water in a sippy cup, as suggested by the doctor to associate water with meals. Hmm...maybe I just answered my own question!
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