What's your baby eating?

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What's a typical day of eating for your little one? Like what kind of solids and how much of it per day? Feel free to include how much breastmilk (or how many feedings) or formula you feed as well. Thanks in advance!! Just feeling like my girl is slow to adapt to solids. She doesn't really open her mouth for it and sometimes just spits it out like she's playing.

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Food before one is just for fun! 😉 My son takes 3 bottles of breast milk during a week day, he eats between 5-6 oz from each. He will sometimes have a pouch of food after his morning bottle, usually a fruit blend as he eats most of his veggies whole. While I am making dinner he will sit in his high chair and do finger foods like plain pasta, steamed carrots, brocoli, baked sweet potato or squash diced or mashed. My husband also tends to give him bites of whatever he is eating from breakfast or lunch. Baby weighed 19 lbs at his 6 month check in March.

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So we started our boy on solids at six months. Once a day a tablespoon or two of puréed vegetables. Slowly moving on to fruits. I'm thinking of starting two meals of solids a day. I know every baby is different and everyones schedule. I find it so hard to figure out a routine, especially being a working mom 😐. So I think we will try bottle when he wakes. Send a fruit to daycare for his am snack and then a veggie for lunch then his regular bottle.  And keep they same routine on the weekends. Does this sound good? I feel so lost... Ugh! Thanks

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We are doing baby led weaning with my son and he feeds himself butternut squash, green beans, avacado, puffs, sweet potatoe, banana and anything else we put in front of him! He eats 3 meals a day and can eat up to 2 cups of food sometimes and he STILL nurses all the time.

I really recommend trying baby led weaning, it's messy as hell but it will give your LO the control and probably help get these solids going.

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My son drinks 3-4 eight ounce bottles of formula and I feed him solids three times per day (most days). He eats anything I give him so I try and mix it up- oatmeal cereal mixed with puréed fruits, plain whole milk yogurt mixed with fruit purées, avocado, sweet potatoes, squash, peas, carrots. I make a lot of it with my Baby Bullet and occasionally buy organic jarred baby food. We are just starting to give him finger foods (puffs, Cheerios, etc) he learned the pincer grip quickly but has yet to be able to get any of it in his mouth after he picks it up 😂😂 but we'll get there! What helped me in the beginning was thinning the baby food down with formula and reclining his high chair (slightly) so it didn't all fall right out of his mouth. Good luck!! :):)

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Mine starts the day with a mixture of prunes/apples/oatmeal followed by a 4oz bottle of diluted Apple juice. She gets constipated really bad, so the doctor recommended this. Lunch, she has a fruit followed by a 4oz bottle of formula. Dinner is a veggie with a 4oz bottle of formula. She usually has a 6oz bottle of formula between meals.

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Wow my girl is nowhere near eating as much solids as yours!

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My son has a 4 ounces of food in the morning and 4 ounces at night. He takes about 24-36 oz of formula a day. We may step it up and do 2-4 ounces at lunch too or some finger foods. He was 17.25 lbs and 28" long at his last appointment 2 weeks ago.

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We do 3ozs of porridge if he eats it he's not keen on food or bottle in morning. And half a baby food pouch at tea time. We are introducing lunch next week. He still has about 5 x 6ozs bottles of formula. He's tiny anyway so I'm not worried about too much milk yet.

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My LO has 3-4oz of formula and 4-6oz of baby food at breakfast. Lunchtime is usually 4oz of baby food and 4-6oz of formula. A 6 oz bottle in the afternoon, 6oz of baby food and 4-6oz of formula at dinner, and one last 6oz bottle before bed.

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