Feeding routine for 10-12months

[*Natasha*]

Please share you feeding routines here so others can compare.
I will start:

Breakfast: 4-5tbls cereal mixed with 2tbls fruit and 3ozs milk. 2ozs milk in a cup, some of Dad's toast
1-1.5hrs later 6ozs bottle
Lunch: Either: Fruit 4tbls,a sandwich,scrambled egg,small tin of spagetti/baked beans. 4-5tbls yoghurt after. Water in her cup
1hr later 4oz bottle (phasing out at the moment)
After nap Snack: water in her cup and some saltarnas or cheese or an arrowroot biscuit.
Dinner: Usually 6tbls in total and always consists of at least 2-3veges,meat and either pasta/rice. 4ozs of milk in a cup.
1hr later 6oz bottle.

[Sabine]

Thanks for starting this thread.  My lo is 11 months today and here is his feeding rtn:

am bottle--6oz
1 hour-1.5hrs later breakfast--7 Tbsp cereal mix with 3 Tbsp EBM and 4 tbsp fruit, 1 baby mum mum or cheerios--sips water in sippy
am snack--few cheerios
bottle--3-6oz
1 hour later--7 Tbsp mix homemade beefstew/chicken pot pie with pasta and cheese sauce, 1 yoghurt and 2 Tbsp fruit
afternoon snack--baby mum mum or cheerios with sips water
supper-usually 7 tbsp and fruit 4 tbsp
bottle 6oz before bed

[Sarah O]

Great thread!

Here's our new routine (solids first, dropped one bottle) for the past week.  We're 10 months corrected age.

6am wake and brekkie: cereal with 1 cube fruit mixed in, every other day an egg yolk...substitute toast/sandwiches with spread pf some sort if refusing cereal
7am offer more brekkie, then 8 oz bottle (will usually have half)
9am rest of bottle and nap (working on extending naps...)
1030am wake and snack: water, chopped grapes/cheerios/something like that
1130/noon lunch: usually yogurt with Vit A veg or fruit mixed in, plus a green veggie & tofu...substitute fish fingers, broccoli chunks (eg) if refusing spoon
1230/1 offer more lunch, then 8 oz bottle (will usually have half)
130/2 rest of bottle and nap (working on extending naps...)
3/330 wake and snack: water, crackers w cheese melted on/fruit
430/5 dinner: varies hugely...lately it's been pasta spirals, chicken/fish fingers, vegetable chunks
530 bathtime
6pm 10 oz bottle (usually has half)
630-730 windown, rest of bottle, sleep

[Mydreamcametrue]

My son will be 10 months in about a week.  Born 8-8-2005.
I am so confused on when to and what to feed him.

This is what he does right now.

Wake:  Bottle 8 oz.
About 20 minutes later: Breakfast, which is Oatmeal and fruit and some cheerios for finger foods

Around 10:30 Bottle 6 to 8 oz.
12:00 Lunch: Vegetables and Fruit

3:30 Bottle 8 oz.
4:00 Snack
5:00 Dinner:  Meat, vegetable, fruit

Bath and Bed.

HELP!!!  I feel like I am feeding him about every hour.  I read somewhere that at about his age, he should transition to having his bottles with his 3 meals a day and then a morning and afternoon snack.  He is SOOOOOO fussy around 5:00.  Even after I feed him.

He does not take or need a bottle at night to fall asleep.  So his last bottle is normally around 3:30, he is sleeping through the night, so I guess it works for him.

Any suggestions:  Bottle first then solids or solids then bottle.  When and how many snacks a day!

Thanks,
Wendy

[* Paula *]

Our routine is as follows:-

8:00am - 8 oz bottle - usually drinks about 6 oz of it and use the rest in his cereal - He has his cereal straight after his breakfast and it is usually 3/4 of a weetabix with 2 spoons of fruit

10:00ish - Brown Toast with Cream cheese on it -  snack of a couple of strawberries

11:45 - Lunch - 5oz of food and 2 oz of fruit as a pudding

2:30 - 4oz yogurt - and a baby biscuit / cereal bar / baby crisps

4:30 - dinner - same as lunch

6:30 - 9 oz bottle

PS I think our DS would eat all day if he could too - even after eating all that - if he sees us eating he grunts and scrunches his hands wanting more food 

[PeepersMom]

PJ will take formula from sippy -

10.5 months old =

7am: 6 oz from sippy - he sips off an on all morning and usually finishes it.
8am breakfast: 1/2cup oatmeal and 1/2 cup applesauce w/dash cinnamon, piece of toast w/jelly or waffle
1030 snack  4oz formula few crackers/cookies and some dried fruit
1230 lunch - grilled cheese, some bites of veggies, often will eat avacado and fruit, soup, bean salad
3pm snack - 4oz formula and 1/2 cereal bar or crackers, whatever
5 dinner - chuncks of chicken,fish, meat, veggies and occasionally a starch if I have some left over, and always end with a yo-baby.  YUM YUM
630 8oz bottle

That is a typical day and we have been doing this routine for about 2 months, actually  The quantities and variety changes but the routine is the same. He is a big eater.  Seems to eat more at the end of the day, but we have always kind of cluster fed in the evening.

Good topic!

[Sienna Raynes mum]

Sienna is 10.5 months old

7am - wake breastfeed
7:30 - oatmeal with fruit and small banana pieces for finger food
11:30am - breastfeed
12pm - lunch - veggie pattie pieces for finger food, soy cheese pieces, and a few spoonfuls of veggie
3:30 - snack - cheerios, baby mum mums , BF
5:30 - dinner - usually whatever we are eating mashed up or into pieces, sweet flavoured tofu for dessert.
7pm - breastfeed before bed

*Lately it has been difficult to get purred food into her becuase she oonly wants to feed herself...and she doesn't like veggies!!
I hope that changes!!

[crazycanuck]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your lo's are eating allot!!!!!!!!!
Logan doesn't eat near that amount I don't think........

In the AM

Bottle - 5ozs (he has decreased this lately)
Breaky - 4-5 tblsps of cereal with about 3-4tblsps of yoghurt (on his tray he eats small puffs and blueberries)
Lunch - Small Jar of food, Cottage Cheese 2tblps, cubes of cheese off his tray and  usually vegetable noodles Dessert 1/2 jar
Bottle - 7-8ozs
Supper - Small Jar of food with cheese and noodles again.......dessert 1/2jar
Bottle - 3-8ozs

Bean Salad??? Doesn't that give bad gas???

Sarah

[KellyC]

Zander is 10.5 months old;

7am Breastfeed
7.30am Breakfast - Porridge or Weetabix mixed with cow's milk and chopped fruit and toast with butter and fruit spread or scrambled egg / baked beans on toast if we're eating a cooked breakfast at the weekend
10am Snack - fruit
12pm Lunch - meal consisting of protein, carbohydrate and vegetables (this is his main meal of the day) eg. chicken with pasta and tomatoes/red peppers, tuna pasta, beef/lamb/chicken/fish stew with potato/rice and mixed vegetables,  followed by yogurt with fruit
3pm Snack - chunks of cheese and salad vegetables
5pm Dinner - varies, eg. cheese sandwich, homemade soup, mashed potatoes with cheese and veg, mixed vegetable frittata served with toast fingers or rice cakes or oat cakes followed by a fromage frais
6.30pm 6-8oz formula

Kelly x

[Sienna Raynes mum]

zander's mummy- just curious about your BF/formula feeds... Do you only give one  breastfeed in the morning and then a formula feed at night and nothing in between except food snacks?
I am transitioning my lo to less Breastfeeds and would like to give her formula but she doesn't seem interested during the day, your schedule seems to be like ours...
Thanx

[owelley]

My thoughts exactly!

[KellyC]

Yes those are the only milk feeds he has, though he has milk on his cereal and plenty of cheese and yogurt too.

Kelly x

[* Paula *]

By the age of 10 Months, Thomas was only on 2 milk feeds - one in the morning, and one at night.  We subsituted his afternoon bottle with a yogurt and he was so much better with that and ended up taking more milk in the evenings.

HTH.

Paula x

[Sienna Raynes mum]

thanks girls - that is very helpful!
I get so concerned that she is not getting enough of - whatever! (sleep, food, milk...etc)
You read so much stuff and everything has "recommendations" as to how much your lo should be eating drinking etc, when following your lo is the best thing to do!

My dd gets lots of cheese and calcium rich foods during the day so I guess I can stop stressing about her milk intake! She breastfeeds like a champ in the morning and then feeds at night with no problems.
 

[deenz]

Dd2 is 10mo.

7am bf
7.45am ish 1 tbls baby cereal mixed with water and pureed fruit (yes, very little!)
10.30am cracker with water to drink
11.30am Marmite or cream cheese and ham sandwich (sometimes eats all of the two slice sandwich) with fruit (kiwifruit or mandarin etc)
12.30pm bf
3pm banana and water
5pm meat and veges (approx 1/2 cup, varies, I just feed until she stops!).
6.45pm bf

Sometimes snacks differ, might have slice of cheese or pottle of yogurt added in there somewhere.  She is a petite little girl, so her appetite reflects this!