feeding routine for 6month olds+ can i see yours please!?
Hi all,
I've been weaning my lo since 4 and a half months. She is coming up to 6 months now. Yesterday we started on 3 meals a day but i'm not sure when to fit meals and milk feeds in. She gets up at half7 and we put her to bed at 8. what time does everyone feed/give milk to their lo's? i'd love to see some other routines. x
I've been weaning my lo since 4 and a half months. She is coming up to 6 months now. Yesterday we started on 3 meals a day but i'm not sure when to fit meals and milk feeds in. She gets up at half7 and we put her to bed at 8. what time does everyone feed/give milk to their lo's? i'd love to see some other routines. x
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So, if we have a normal-ish day we go something like this
7am Breastfeed then breakfast, normally porridge with fruit puree mixed in, something like that.
12.30-1ish lunch - start with breast feed, then carrot/apple/butternut/whatever Mummy remembers to defrost (!!!) then depending on what milk he's taken from me I might offer a bottle of milk.
6-6.30ish dinner time, breast feed followed by more veg/fruit/rusks/whatever and another offer of bottle.
7-7.30ish bedtime til (at the moment 5.30 bloody am!).
Depending on his hunger and how much he moans, which isn't that often, I will sometimes offer something, be it me, or a snack at about 11am and 3.30ish but he's rarely hungry for it.
Hope this all makes sense to you! Barnaby will be 6 months in 4 days time (noooooooooooooooo!!!!!).
xx
[Modified by: Trackieann on April 19, 2008 03:12 PM]
7am: bottle, 8am: weetabix
12noon: Savoury packet mix (now on 7month plus one!) and then usually fruit puree
4pm dinner, depends on what ive got out, or made...or if totally lazy a jar! (now on stage 2) and dessert, usually petit filous x2!
7pm bottle and bed
hope this helps x
Breakfast 10.30am cereal and 5 ozs milk
lunch 1.30 sausage and beans or something like that and 5ozs
tea 4.30 a 8-9 oz bottle
supper 7.30 whatever we are eating and a 5 oz bottle
bed 10.30 and a 9 ozs bottle
She also has another 9 oz bottle around 6am, she hasnt learned the concept of going through yet!
This is only a rough guide, some days she gets 4 meals a day if she is haveing a growth spurt and her meals vary but that is the general rule so to speak. x
My lo's routine (which i think i need to revise!) is something like this:
8am 6oz milk
9am breakfast
12.30 5oz milk
13.30 lunch, water
4pm 5oz milk
5.30 dinner, water
7.30 5oz milk
she doesnt really take much water but i'm working on that! Do you all feed your lo milk 4 times a day? sorry so many questions!
ps Hiya Tracey! I havent been on here for a while.. i must admit i've been a bit addicted to wedding planning sites as oh proposed back in Feb! Though i think i'll come back here again now (those weddingy sites get too many trolls!) x x
[Modified by: Jennie.p on April 19, 2008 04:12 PM]
Ruby is coming upto 7 months, her daily meal planner (if all goes to plan is)...
7-7.30am - 8oz Bottle
9.30-10 am- Breakfast, either Baby Rice & Fruit puree or Weetabix & Fruit,
11.30am- 6oz Bottle
1.30 pm- Lunch, Veg & Yoghurt
3.30pm- 6 oz Bottle
5.30pm - Tea Veg & fruit/yoghurt
7.30-8pm- 8 oz Bottle
I am now trying to reduce the amount of milk in two day bottles, and have been offering finger foods (toasts crusts & rice cakes, so far). I offer water @ meal times, but most goes down her front as she enjoys to spit it out! Also if i'm having a lazy day i will offer a jar, but she doesn't seem to like many, apart from the Hipp Organic ones.
Isn't weaning such fun!! lol
xxx
7.30am 8oz Milk
9.30am Porridge/weetabix (depends if she seems hungry)
12 8oz Milk
12-30pm 1/2pouch of Ella's Kitchen and yogurt
4pm 8oz Milk
5pm 1/2 pouch Ella's Kitchen and yogurt or fruit
7.30pm 6oz bedtime milk or 8oz normal milk (depends on what she's had to eat and how hungry/tired she seems to which one she has) Oh and I offer water/juice at each meal and throughout the day she takes around 5 oz a day.
Hope this helps, it's so difficult this weaning lark isn't it.
Gem.xx
i still havent got my lo in a routine and just seem to be spending my days randomly giving him jars etc...
xxx
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He's coming up 10 months and our routine goes like this:
6.00/6.30am - 8oz bottle
9.00am - Breakfast, usually a fruity porridge, or weetabix and fruit
12.30/1.00pm - Lunch. All sorts including cauli cheese, dairylea sandwiches, pasta, scrambled egg. Followed by a fruit, either fresh or a Hipp pot
Sometimes I will offer a snack of a banana or rusk if he seems peckish mid afternoon, but he's usually fine till tea time at -
5.00/5.30pm - Dinner. He will again have all sorts - if he can have what we're having, we tend to do that. Or I will make veggies, meat, baby gravy. He also likes fish (I buy 100% cod fish fingers and remove the fillet from the coating as 2 of them is the perfect portion size!), tatties and veg. Cottage pie, pasta and cheese... anything really! Usually followed by petite filous x2 or some more fruit.
7.30ish - Porridge + 7oz milk
11.30 - Sweet potato/butternut squash/ carrots&parsnip + 7oz milk
3.30 - apple&pear + 7oz milk
7pm - 7oz milk
and finally the best bit, BED!
Im worried im overfeeding him though as iv increased the amount of solids but he wont settle unless he has drained his bottle of milk and would drink more if there was any. Will he reduce his milk intake himself or should I reduce it now? He is 5 months but was 7 weeks premature and iv read that premmie babies can be really hungry babies to catch up.
This weaning shennanegins is all a bit complicated!
I started weaning my lo around 21 wks and she is now coming up to 27 wks. She has 3 meals a day and is still breastfed. Our routine is taken roughly from the Gina Ford Weaning book, which I turned to as I had no idea:
6.30/7am Breastfeed.
8am Breakfast - usually 1-2 tbsp of cereal and 2 tbsp fruit.
9am Nap after a little breast top up.
11.15 am Short breast feed (5-10 mins) followed by lunch of usually around 6-7 cube/tbsp of veg and some protein. Water during lunch and then a small breastfeed top up for nap at 12.15ish.
2.30pm Full Breast feed.
4.15pm Offered some water or short breastfeed if hungry.
5.30pm First breast followed by supper of about 5 tsp of baby rice with 2 tbsp of fruit or veg puree.
Bath around 6.15 and second breast at about 6.30 before going down around 7pm.
She still has a short dreamfeed at between 10.30 - 11pm.
Hope that makes sense? It seems to suit her and some days we get a bit out but normally she doesn't mind.
Good luck
Rachael
I've only been weaning my LO for about 2 weeks now Hannah's nearly 6 months old and my feeding patteren is exactly the same as yours only done at different times! And I thought I wasn't feeding Hannah enough!!
I'm currently using the little tubs you can buy from Mothercare for first stage weaning, filling them up with all the puree's i've made and freezing them. Is 1 tub per feed enough or should it be more? As for the cereal she's only having 2 teaspoons mixed with 6 teaspoons of formula and she's finding that just about enough.
This weaning malarcy is sending me round the bend it's like having a new born again only trying to feed them goe! LOL
Carolyn x
Our routine is.....
7am - porridge for breakfast - 4 oz of milk
11am - 8oz bottle
12.30 - Lunch - Yoghart
15.30 - 8oz Bottle
17.30 - Apple&pear or parsnip
19.00 - 8oz bottle
23.00 - 8oz Bottle
Want to try and start and get rid of late night bottle now. But she wont quite make it!! xx
7am - 8oz bottle & porridge with fruit or sometimes just fruit
11 / 11.30am - 6oz bottle then 2 tablespoons of vegetables
or fruit.
2.30pm - 7oz bottle
5.30pm - 3 tablespoons of vegetables mixed with potato
6.30pm - 8oz bottle.
At the 11am feed, I only give half the bottle then the food and he will have more of the bottle after his solids but doesn't always finish it.
After reading other comments, I think i will move his lunch to 12pm and offer him a drink and snack at around 10.30. Hopefully his 2.30 feed can be dropped and I can just offer him another drink and maybe a snack - it will save time making feeds up.
at the mo i do this:
6.30am 8oz bottle (keep him in bed with me begginh him to go back to sleep)
9.30am ususally has a nap
11.30am 8oz bottle and 2 x teaspoons of fruity breaky
3.30pm 8oz bottle
6pm 7oz bottle (doesn't always finish) rusk with formula tried pureed pear and its taken him 10 days to actually eat without gagging but still only having few mouthfuls, just tried carrot but sooo didn't go down well spat it out then sealed his mouth shut!
7pm bath
7.30pm 7oz bottle
8pm bed
can i ask did it take a while for your lo's to take to purees etc...?
7-7.30am baby rice with mashed banana mixed with formula finished off with rest of bottle 6oz
11.30am- 6-7oz bottle
12-12.30pm- fruit pot
3.30- dinner - anything from sweet pot/veg generally jars at the min till i discover what she likes then i can make it myself finished off with a fruit pot
7pm- 6-7oz bottle then bed
am i doing this right?
her routine now is
7:30- 8oz bottle with 1 tablespoon of porridge (using 8tps of her milk from the 8oz bottle she drinks the rest)
12-12:30 fresh veg puree followed by fresh fruit puree (she refuses jars and stuff)
4:30 fresh veg puree follwed agin by fresh fruit puree (she cant have yogurt as cmpi and li and cant use soya yogurts til 6 months!!)
7.15- 8oz milk
10-8oz milk sometimes she takes it all sometimes only 5oz.
i think and hope this is ok as she takes at least 21oz of milk a day and i found that giving bottle at 10pm instead of putting it in at 3:30pm and dinner at 5:30 she sleeps better.
7:30am 6oz bottle
8:00am breaskfast (baby cereal/baby rice and fruit puree, etc.)
11:30am 6oz bottle
12:00pm lunch (things like chicken casserole, lentil & veg casserole/veggies, then fruit for pudding)
3:30pm 6oz bottle
4:00pm tea (veggies/fruit for pudding)
6:30pm bedtime bottle
7:00pm bedtime
He has various finger foods with his meals, so he might gum a bit of toast to death with breakfast and then have things like steamed carrot sticks or parsnip (his fave) with lunch.
Em x x x
8am-breakfast and 4-6onz bottle
12pm-dinner and 4 onz bottle
4pm-tea and 4 onz bottle
8pm-7onz bottle
12am-4 onz bottle.
am i doing this right as my health visitor was not much help as when i asked she tol me to carry on on and he will be fine-GREAT HELP
any help and advise will be greatly appriciated