What are your 10 – 11 mth olds eating?

[Anonymous]

Around that age brianna was mostly eatiing table foods. She did eat rice/oatmeal cereal at breakfast with BM and 1/2 stage 2 fruit. Lunch was usually eggs with some veggies and fruit cut up into small pieces (she loved pears, bananas, green beans, blueberries, raspberries, carrots and peas) and then a few pieces of WW bread. Dinner was the same type of fruits and veggies, with chicken nuggets (the girl loves her chicken nuggets and only has 2 teeth!!!). But with the MFPI you are probably going to need to go very slow with this. BM and Neocate are fine….my mom told me I never ate solids until about 15 months old…I would just scream when she tried to give them too me. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Thank you to each of you for your input. Anyone else willing to share what their 10 or 11 month olds eat?

With jarred baby food, do you give one whole container of baby food at a meal? And with rice cereal, how much is anyone giving their baby at one time?

Everything I read says that a baby’s stomach is the size of his fist — if that is really the case, then an 8 oz bottle of formula shouldn’t even fit.

With my older daughter, all of this was so much simpler! It certainly was the “innocent time” in my parenting life.

Thansk again, Dianne

[Anonymous]

I read that too, and laughed…I think Brianna’s stomach must me more like thee size of my husband’s fist! She ate a whole Chick-Fil-A sandwich onetime. :-). For the rice cereal, I started with just a few tablespoons, and increased it over time where now she gets 8-10tbsps each morning. I offered the baby food jars as much as she wanted. When she started turning her head, I knew she was done. Just look for cues that he is not interested anymore. 🙂 Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Her stomach may be the size of her fist, but stomachs do stretch!

I agree with Emily, just look for cues that she’s had enough. I always fed my babies until they seemed to lose interest and I didn’t worry about the amount. There’s such a wide range of normal when it comes to intake. My friend used to be amazed that Liza was eating an average of 6 jars of baby food per day while her daughter was only eating 3.

With cereal I started like Emily said with a few tablespoons and gradually increased it as I found myself scraping the bowl in the morning. Myles now eats a whopping 1/2 cup of oatmeal in the morning. But my girls I thinked topped off at about 1/4 – 1/3 cup.

[hellbennt]

I was told that babies (maybe it was breastfed babies?) know when to ‘stop’

Jonah ate a LOT – I let him lead. He’d finish off a jar of baby food no problem…by a year I was only nursing him 2x a day so he’d have breakfast (a huge bowl of oatmeal- I made it with baby oatmeal and pureed fruit- it was a thick gruel, lol), snack, lunch, snack, dinner, nurse bed – something like that…at 9 months he could have yogurt (not mspi) so he got calcium that way…not sure about what I’d do for a mspi’er?

if you go to my Intro, there’s a section ‘What can I Feed My Gerdling?’ and from there are links to ideas of finger foods, etc…

With this baby (breastfed) I am really interested in this:

http://www.borstvoeding.com/voedselintroductie/vast_voedsel/ rapley_guidelines.html

http://www.babyledweaning.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/B-LW/

HTH

[Anonymous]

When he was 10 months old he had an 8 oz bottle at around 5-6 (then I put him back to sleep til around 7)

Then he ate frozen berries or a packet of oatmeal or grits and eggs (I did give him eggs at 10 months although it’s not recommended)-he quit eating purees when he was about 9 months old, he just wouldn’t touch them anymore.

Then a 6 oz bottle before his nap

Then lunch, yogurt or avacado with meat sticks, (yes he ate those nasty things although he won’t touch them now) or veggies-usually those gerber jarred carrots or green beans

then another 6 oz bottle before his afternoon nap

then a snack-gerber puffs or banana

then dinner, veggies(carrots, peas or green beans-not purees) and chicken nuggets, maybe 1/4 cup of veggies and 2 chicken nuggets

then an 8 oz bottle before bed

he ate a TON of formula..he still has 2 bottles a day…we’re working on that little issue

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