Feeding routine for 6-9months

[*Natasha*]

Please share your feeding routine here so others can compare ideas.

[deenz]

Dd2 has just turned 8mo and I'm in the process of swopping over to solids before milk.

7am bf
7.45am cereal with ebm and fruit (amount varies greatly!)
11am bf
11.45-12pm lunch - toast with butter and marmite and water - starting to intro dairy (eg. today incl. some grated cheese)
3-3.30pm bf (when she wakes from her nap)
5pm dinner - veges and meat and water
6.45pm ish bf

I will drop one of the bf (probably 3pm one) soon and replace with snack.  Will also move lunch and breakfast to solids first (breakfast will be last to do).

[KellyC]

Zander is 9 months old next week;

7am BF
8am Breakfast - either Weetabix or Ready Break or Porridge with fruit (mashed or chopped banana, grated apple or pear, chopped peach etc.) and toast and butter with sugar-free jam.
10am Snack - fruit or organic bar made purely from fruit or rice cakes
11.45am Lunch - 8tbsp chicken casserole / lamb hotpot / veg shepherd's pie or similar.  Fromage Frais or yogurt.  Fruit (finger food).
3pm BF
4.45pm Dinner - 8 tbsp thick home-made soup with toast and butter or oat cakes with philladelphia.  Chunks of cheese and/or an organic desert (usually some sort of rice pudding) if still hungry.
6.30pm BF

[Sydney]

Sydney is 7.5 months old:

6:00 am 6 oz formula
7:30 2 tbsp oatmeal with 2 tbsp fruit
10:00 am 6 oz formula
11:30 am 1 tbsp fruit, 1 tbsp veggie
2:00 pm 6 oz formula
3:30 pm 2 tbsp fruit, 1 tbsp veggie
6:00 pm 6 oz formula
7:00 pm bed

[Lola]

Madelaine is 8 mos 3 wks-
7:00am   Breakfast is cereal and fruit
bottle
12:00     Lunch is Veggie cut up for finger foods (carrots, cubed sweet potato, pieces pasta, avocado, potato pieces )
             Yogurt or Fruit cut up (apples cooked and rolled in crushed Cheerios, pears, avocado etc)
             Cheese pieces
bottle
3:30       1 Baby Mum Mum cookie OR Nutrios (like Cheerios)  / sippy cup with water
5:30       Dinner is Veggie or Pasta. We are just starting with Chicken but had trots last week ? not sure if it was chicken so holding for a bit)      Dessert is fruit pieces or pureed fruit/yogurt (Whichever we didn't have for lunch)
7:00       Bottle and bed
             

[Sarahboh]

Ella is 8 months old in a few days, here is our routine.

7:30am wake and bottle 5-7 ounces
9:00 4 ounces formula mixed in cereal and sippy, 1/2 cup oatmeal/rice cereal, 1 tbsp  yoghurt, 5 tsp fruits
10-11;45 nap
12:00 2-3 ounces formula (snack)
1:00 1/2 jar meat and veggies, another 1/4 separate veggies, 1 tbsp yoghurt, 4 tsp fruit
2:00 teething bisquit
2:30-4:00nap
4:00 5-7 ounces formula
5:15 1/2 cup oatmeal/rice cereal, 1/4 jar veggies and meat, 5 tsp fruit for dessert+4 ounces formula (sippy and in cereal)
6:30 bath, massage
6:50 bottle 5-7 ounces
7:00 bed.

Works great at the moment, but changes weekly  Sarah

[deenz]

Dd2 is now 8.5mo and we've made some changes recently:

7am BF
8am breakfast - couple of tablespoons of baby cereal mixed with water and pureed fruit (sometimes less)
10.30am cracker with water
11.30am lunch - sandwiches, fruit pieces and dairy (eg. cheese)
12.30pm BF
3.30pm rest of sandwiches from lunch plus water
5pm dinner - meat and veges mixture
6.45pm BF

[Olivia's Mummy]

My daughter is 6-1/2 months and is in the process of making her way though the cereal types - routine to date looks like this... feedback welcome

6:30am - 3 tbsp cereal
7am - 180 ml formula
10:30/11am - 3 tbsp cereal
11:15 - 120 ml formula
3pm - 180 ml formula
5:30 - 3 tbsp cereal
6:30 - 180 ml formula

[andrea21]

Harrison is 8days away from 6moths and this is our daily routine.

7am awake 210ml
8am cereal
8.30/45-9.30/10 sleep
11am 210ml
12noon lunch
12.30/1-2pm sleep
3pm 210ml
3.30-4/4.30pm sleep
5.30pm 210ml
7.30pm 210ml and bed

He sleeps the whole night on this routine.He has been on this routine with the feeding/sleeping for 2months,the cereal for one month and lunch for one week,but all seems to be going well.

[Carolyn R]

Hi there,

Nathan's feeding schedule:

I think he eats a lot of food - but he is 25 lbs (10 lb 11 oz when born).

730 - 800 bf

900 breakfast - 8-10 tbsp heinz cereal with homo milk; sometimes an egg yolk; or handful nutrios

1100 handful of cereal - nutrios

1215 lunch - chicken and veggies (5 oz); fruit (3 oz); sip of water or milk

300 snack - mum mum cracker or fruit

330 bf

500 supper - protein and veggies (5 oz); fruit 3 oz; sip of water or milk

700 bf before bedtime

He refuses sippy cup and is not drinking liquids from any cup. He will sometimes 'sip' from a straw. I put water or milk in a cup with straw, but he isn't interested.
The only liquid he is getting is bf at morning, afternoon and bedtime. I assume this is enough for him.

[Kerrie Hughes]

My ds is 61/2 months and our routine looks something like this:

wake 6:30 BF
7 to 7:30 breakfast (usually rusk with formula or baby rice and banana)
8:30 nap for 2 hours
10.30 BF
12ish lunch (just short of 1 jar - home cooked food but use jars to freeze food in)
12:30 or 1 nap 11/2 to 2 hours
2.30 play
3:00 bottle (usually 5oz)
5 to 5:30 tea (usually eats the most at this meal 1 jar plus a bit of fruit or yogurt)
6:30 bath
7:00 BF & wind down
7:15 into bed
7:30 sound asleep
10pm BF

He used to sleep until 6:30 but with these darn light mornings he wakes at 5:30. I will not get him out of his cot before 6:30. So I either put the dummy back in and he catnaps or he plays with his toys. Often he wakes in the night and needs his dummy (very annoying) and other times he self settles. He never wakes for food though.

[lisi's mum]

Lisi will be 8 MO in a week.

7am        bf
8.30       3 or 4tbs millet or rice cereal made up with formula + 1tbs apple or pear
11          bf
12.30      5 or 6 tbs made up of 2 or 3 tbs carbs, maybe 1tbs protien (only done turkey so far)and 2 or 3 tbs veggies (usually 2            different kinds) and some chunks of fruit and a rice cake
3            bf
5.30       4 tbs fruit or veggies (two different kinds) and a rice cake or so
7            bf

[BabyBsMommy]

Thanks for starting this thread, Natasha - I was just about to post a question asking how bfs should fit into a solids routine with 6-9 month olds and I'm glad to see I'm on the right track!
Brenden is 1.5 weeks away from 6 months.  He's a big boy, almost 20lbs and has been on cereal since 4.5 months but we upped it VERY slowly based on his demand for it.  Started at only a tbsp at 5:30pm (tried mornings first but he wasn't hungry for his 11am feed) and after about 4 weeks added 1 tbsp in the AM and just this past week 1 tbsp at noon.
Here is his current routine:
7am Wake and bf
8am Solids 1 tbsp homemade pear and 1 tbsp barley cereal, bit of water from sippy cup
9am-1030am (approx) nap
11am bf
12pm 1 tbsp barley cereal, bit of water from sippy cup
1pm -2:30pm (again, approx.) nap
3pm bf
5:00-5:30 catnap (been fighting the ALOT the past week or two, may start to drop it and head to bed an hour earlier...especially since he also started fighting bedtime around the same time this started!)
5:30 solids 3tbsp oatmeal, bit of water from sippy cup
6:30 bath
7:00 bf
7:30 sleep
10:30 df (4oz ebm and 4 oz formula, takes at least 6 oz, often the whole 8 oz)
** Is "sleeping through" without demanding a feed but often still wakes somewhere between 3-5am for an hour play.  Has demanded a feed at 6am yesterday AM and 5:30am this morning but I think he's hit his 6 month growth spurt as he has hit all of them a week or two early.....isn't taking an extra feed during the day but has been taking twice as much at these early morning feeds than he usually does at 7am so I guess he's getting the extra calories that way, also taking a longer feed at 7pm and draining the df bottle.  I figure, sleeping until 5-6am during this and then going back down for an hour after is good enough!

[chrisemily713]

My son is a little less than two weeks shy of 6 months. We have already started solids as he has reflux and we introduced rice cereal a little before 5 months to see if it would help. He has never been a good eater. He was breastfed for the first 4 months but due to weight gain issues have transitioned him to bottle so that we can monitor intake better( I pump and he mainly gets bm with a little formula to make up the difference when I don't have enough). He continues to not take in a lot of liquids.  At 5 months he only wieghed 12 lbs 13 oz. we are always trying to get him to gain weight but it is such a struggle to get him to take liquids. ( he likes his solids) This is his current schedule.  I would like him to take more fluids - any suggestions?

7:30 Wake up/bottle(3-4)
8:15 3 tbsp cereal and 1-1.5 oz fruit ( 1-2 oz bm in cereal)
9-10:30/11:00- nap
11:00 bottle(3-4 oz)
12:30/1:00-2:00 nap
2:00 bottle(3-4 oz)
4:00-5:00 cat nap( 30-45 mint)
5:00 bottle(3-4)and cereal(2-3 tablspoons with 1-2 oz bm) 1-2 oz veggies
7/7:30 bottle and bed(4-5 oz)

We use to do dream feed at 10:30 and he use to take 4-6 oz.  - he never woke for it and would sleep through the night without it but it allowed us to get more ounces in him. Over the past week or two he has gotten really upset when we get him up for it and will usualy only take 1-2 oz if that. So we dropped it this week - he is sleeping fine but is not making up for the oz. during the day. The milk intake has not really decreased with the introduction of solids so solids do serve as a way to get more wieght on. I also am toying with combining that 11:00 and 2:00 feed somewhere in the middle as he gets a little older - not really sure how to do that.  Introduce a snack , I guess?  Any input?

[Lola]

Please don't think I am being rude jumping in on a completely irrelative note..but if that is your last name, you may want to consider taking it out and just being kerrie ...it is the www after all 

(not that I am paranoid or anything lol)