Weaning....how much milk and food?

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  pumbacat

  Aug 21, 2009 3:35PM

  I'm having the same worries. I read that up till 12 months babies need a minimum of between 18 to 21oz. Amelia is the same age as millie and we're doing the following
  
  7.30am - 2 tbsp fruit puree with either baby rice or porridge then 4oz milk
  11.30am - 2 tsbp of veg puree then 5oz milk
  3.30pm - Muller little star yoghurt then 5oz milk
  7.30pm - 8oz milk before bed
  
  In the next week I plan to try and split the milk from her solid feeds (if that makes sense) to try and get her to drink more water with her meals. Milk will be more of a snack - The plan is
  
  7.30 - Breakfast with 4oz milk
  9.30ish - 5oz milk before nap
  12.30 lunch - veg puree and fruit
  3pm ish (after nap) 5oz milk
  5pm ish - tea - veg puree and yoghurt
  7.30 - 8oz milk
  Then when she is older the milk can be replaced with a snack.
  Its hard when we first start weaning and I constantly worry that Amelia is having too much then I think she's not having enough!! I'm trying to let her guide me with how much she needs but I'm guessing once I split the milk and solids she will have little but often.
  
  I'm really interested to see what everyone else is doing.

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  twinklestarfairy

  Aug 23, 2009 4:40PM

  Hi i think it sounds like Millie is having plenty of milk. Spencer went from five feeds to four after he started purees so i started to give him 8 oz instead of 7 he started not drinking all of it and leaving a couple of oz and he wasn't having water either so i was a little worried. I changed the teats to fast flow and now he drinks all of his milk nearly all of the time and he has water to.
  
  Spencer has
  8:00 Baby rice and then 7-8oz milk
  12:00 Puree and then 8oz milk
  4:00 8oz milk
  7:00 8oz milk
  
  I think it's all a bit of trial and error as long as Millie is having 18-21oz or more then everything is fine, there bound to want less milk as they start eating more solids.
  
  gem xxx

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  malakin

  Aug 23, 2009 6:22PM

  Erin-Beth has all her normal milk feeds plus 2 meals (and snacks) a day
  
  times are approx but generally..
  
  7am ... BF (then sleep till)
  10am...BF
  12pm..pureed mixed veg (equates to about 3/4 of a jar)
  1pm....4oz bottle
  4pm... 4oz bottle
  6pm....1 small mashed banana or jar of fruit puree
  7pm....4oz bottle or BF depends if ive steralised ready lol
  10pm..BF
  3am....BF
  
  she has started to nibble on toast if i have some, or sandwiches and peices of fruit when the older girls have their lunch and whatever else i have she always has a bit of too...only cos she looks at me like she is saying "and wheres mine??" this is still on top of the above!!
  
  She absolutely loves her food, and i'm enjoying spending the time shopping for all different varietys of fruit and veg as i didnt do any of this last time round..i make and freeze in advance but am only doing a weeks worth at a time now as she is wanting more and more and obviously the consistancy has changed over the weeks yet despite all this she only weighs 13lb15 at 23wks!
  
  I did try breakfast but it threw her days out as she likes to sleep in till 10!! but am looking to try again soon..prob weetabix (i think they can have it from 6mnths)
  
  She was sleeping thru from 8wks then wen she got to 17wks she started waking at 3am and has done everynite since, but takes a full BF so she must be hungry!
  
  [Modified by: malakin on August 23, 2009 11:33 PM]
  
  

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  xxDBumpxx

  Aug 24, 2009 9:50AM

  im having bit of nightmare at mo with feeding. just before i tried lo with solids her milk feed decreased from 7floz to 5-6floz at a push. she now has either porridge or puree banana mid morning (couple hrs after feed) as tried food with milk and she wouldnt have it but takes bit more solids this way.shw has 4-5 bottles but seems to get bored of her milk which is why i started weaning.sometimes she just doesnt want to know though with the solids shes started waking in night as well thinking its playtime lol! would appreciate any tips and recipes as well please also what finger foods to try! thanks xxx

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  twinklestarfairy

  Aug 24, 2009 9:58AM

  D&Bump are you useing the fastest flow or variflow teats on the bottles for the milk, some babies get bored of sucking out of the smaller holes xxx

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  MGMummy

  Aug 24, 2009 3:51PM

  Yeah I switched to the variflow teats, I use TT bottles and she now drinks up to 8oz of milk which she never would have done before I switched. I just thought she had gone off milk too! I also switched to hungry baby formula when she started waking in the night and with that and the faster flow teats, she has gone back to sleeping 7.30 til 7.30/8.30 again!
  
  I tried Millie with some butter fingers of toast yesterday at lunch time when we had our lunch, Im not sure she actually ate any but she seemed to enjoy being able to feed herself and gave it a good old suck!
  
  I'm thinking of trying her with a rusk but I know they are full of sugar so would only want to offer them once in a while, does anyone know of any healthier biscuit type snacks I could give her? i tried her with half a rich tea today which she really liked!! Think she could very easily have a sweet tooth like her mummy, so dont want to encourage it but she really enjoyed it! lol
  
  Bx

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  xxDBumpxx

  Aug 25, 2009 10:27AM

  sorry for late reply..
  
  yeah she on number 3 fast flow teats and im using tommee tippee. im lucky if i get 5 ounces down her but i think it must be teething because she always trying to get hands mouth even when feeding. ive tried teething gel just before or during feed but does nothing. mostly shes happy but gets upset when feeding. shes not sleeping through now as well so not sure whether to take her to drs to just see if its anyhing else. xxx

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