LO & Eating

[bennieangel]

I know we talk about this all the time, but I feel like it's constantly changing.

Walk me through your LO's day of food & drink - what are they eating (today or yesterday as example) and how much are they drinking? Are you doing 1 or 2 snacks?

[bennieangel]

We just had our 1yr apt & the pedi wants to see 3 meals, 2 snacks & no more than 15 oz milk. We are just starting the milk transition now - so I'm mixing 1/2 & 1/2 with the last of my freezer stash & still offering an early morning formula bottle (buys us 90 min more sleep)

[northernlghts]

This morning at 7 she had a 5oz bottle of bm, 8:15 she had some Cheerios, half a banana, yogurt with fruit purée and I offered her a sippy cup with water, around 10 she'll get another bottle of bm, lunch is out so whatever we're eating I'll offer but I'm also packing veggies and her sippy cup. No idea of dinner yet she does seem to like whole milk so she'll get some with dinner. Tomorrow for daycare I'm going to start mixng bottles of bm and whole milk. She tends to get snacks at daycare around 4, sometimes at home. When we're home on weekends or she's home with my mom she can get dinner around 5. When I pick her up at daycare, dinner isn't until 5:30 so the snacks buy us time.

[Deleted]

8am nurse
8:30 breakfast- yogurt with fruit purées or eggs and cheese
10 nurse to sleep
12 nurse bf lunch
12:15 lunch- a veggie, meat, and fruit.
2 nurse to sleep
4 snack-Cheerios or other finger food
5:30 dinner- veggie, meat, and fruit
7:45 nurse to sleep

[RandomName]

Yesterday meals:
7am breakfast: 2 toast (w peanut butter), raspberries and sippy of milk.
9:00: cheese and cracker snack
Sippy of milk before nap (5oz)
12:30 lunch: tomato, avacado, cheese quesadilla, sippy of milk
Sippy of milk before nap (5 oz)
4:00: yogurt, few Cheerios and strawberries/raspberries snack
5:30 dinne: baked beans, rice, cheese, and yogurt and fruit for dessert with sippy of milk.
Bottle of milk before bed (6 oz)

She uses the same sippy of milk all day, I put about 5 oz in and she drinks maybe 3/4 of it. She gets the bulk of her milk before naps and bed. I fill up a sippy of water after breakfast and leave it out for her all day. I only take it away for meal times. She typically finishes it off by the end of day (~4-5 oz). She prefers water through straw sippys and milk through the spouted sippys.

[fish8412]

4 or 5 am-nurse (back to sleep)
730 am-nurse and awake
830 am-breakfast (fruit pouch or banana with a waffle or pancake)
11am-nurse to nap
1:00 pm-lunch (spinach or broccoli nuggets, banana, fruit or veggie pouch, chick peas)
3:00 pm-bottle or sippy cup of milk and maybe a nap
5:30 or 6:00 pm-dinner (meatballs, grilled cheese, avocado on toast, black beans, fruit or veggie pouch)
7:00 or 7:30 pm-nurse to sleep

LO has 1 snack day (usually in the afternoon). The timing just depends on how big of a meal she has eaten or what we are up to. She likes to have puffs, crackers, mum mums, or Cheerios when we are out and about running errands.

Right now she is obsessed with those fruit/veggie pouches. We easily go through 2 a day.

[younglove316]

Morning can range from 630-730- 5 ounces milk, she usually takes about 3 or 4 & either cheerios, waffle, strawberries, or if my husband is home we sometimes so sausage & eggs.

Lunch is about 12- leftovers usually or I'll give her cheese and lunch meat. She absolutely loves the cheese sticks. I give water with lunch

Snack in the afternoon is usually some type of cereal- I just rotate through what we have. Or if she didn't get cheese with lunch I'll give some then. I'll offer some milk

Dinner she has whatever we are having. Last night was pierogies. I usually give her a little milk or water just depending on how much she has had already.

Bedtime is 7 and we are still giving her a bottle with milk.

[babycaps]

bennieangel, I have to be 100% honest. I think it's bullshit your pedi suggested no milk between meals. If I didn't provide M with his milk between meals I think he would go apeshit! He's a growing boy and milk has DHA and other great fats that the brain needs for optimal brain development which is at its fastest rate for the first 3 years of life! Our pediatric dietitian at the hospital re-assured me that M should be getting 15-20oz of milk a day ANY TIME he wants. Especially if he knows how to ask or sign for milk, to not deny him that source of nutrition. She said if he gets 15oz, he should hopefully also be getting some full fat yogurt and cheese.

Here's our LO's food schedule:

At wake up, we fill up 6oz cup of milk He drinks about 2-3oz right away and then the remainder before he goes down for nap.
Breakfast: Steelcut oats with banana and a little milk mixed in.
12:30pm at daycare: 5-6oz milk
1:30pm lunch: 4oz Stoney Field Farms YOBaby yogurt. We still do that Yobaby instead of toddler bc it has less sugar and he seems to like it better. Sweet potatoes or another veggies, a cheese stick or mac and cheese. He gets a variety of foods there! some fruit too.
4:30pm 5-6oz milk
6:30pm: dinner. meat balls, veggies, pasta, fruit, lasagna, leftovers from what we had the night before, gold fish crackers, a variety of stuff here again.
7:30pm right before bed he drinks some more milk.

He also had a few containers of goldfish and cherries around the place which he grazes on.

He gets water throughout the day, but I don't think they give him water at daycare.

He is tall and about 85th %ile for weight and 97th for height.

He never actually drinks more than 22oz of milk. Especially on weekends, if he doesn't finish the morning cup, NBD, we just add more to it for later in the day and so on.

[babycaps]

Forgot to say above: basically, if you still want to give milk between meals, I don't think it's a big deal!

[bennieangel]

fish8412 - can you share the recipe for spinach or broccoli nuggets?

babycaps I plan to offer milk at all meals & snacks even though she said just meals. He's only 19 pounds & I think we can afford the extra calories as long as he's eating his good too (which was her concern). I made a chart today & stuck it to the fridge to help is make sure we are offering enough of everything each weekend day & dinners.

Today he had peaches & oranges with his baby oatmeal (he loves it & I mix in his vitamins, probiotics & milk).

Then for snack he had Cheerios & yogurt melts

For lunch I'm going to make scrambled egg with cheese, whole wheat waffle, & carrots.

For snack he will have yogurt & whole wheat ritz

Dinner I am hoping he will eat the ham & potato casserole I am making for us & I'll also give some peas & corn or green beans.

This seems good right? If he won't eat our dinner I will probably make him a ham sandwich.

[fish8412]

bennieangel

I get the broccoli and spinach nuggets at Whole Foods. They are tasty!

www.drpraegers.com/Broccoli-Littles-Kids

[fishbulb]

I'm glad everyone else is worrying about this too. Some days he eats well, some days I think he subsists on three cheerios and air.

I finally found a meat he likes - ham! Of course he won't get it too often since it's salty, but it's progress.

[fish8412]

Apr 5, 2015 18:20:26 GMT -5 fishbulb said:

I'm glad everyone else is worrying about this too. Some days he eats well, some days I think he subsists on three cheerios and air.

I finally found a meat he likes - ham! Of course he won't get it too often since it's salty, but it's progress.

Our pediatrician said that babies are good self-regulators.  They will eat when they are hungry so don't push it with food.  She said that some meals they will eat tons and others they won't be interested in food at all.  Just follow your LOs cues and he will be just fine!  Also, after the 1 year mark, their growth isn't so fast, so you will probably see a decrease in appetite.  

[bennieangel]

Our pedi also said that there's usually one big meal so pay attention to which that one is. For our lo he tends to eat a big lunch. She said a lot of babies it's breakfast

[sanibel21]

That's interesting about the one big meal per day and good to know.
We usually nurse upon waking. Then breakfast is a pancake, yogurt or eggs, and prunes. Nurse after morning nap. Lunch was a bean and cheese sandwich and some sort of fruit, often cut up ripe pears. But she started getting constipated so we've just been doing beans and fruit and cheerios. Nurse after afternoon nap. Snack of cheerios and/or pancake and fruit. Dinner is a few plain meatballs or shredded chicken, veggies, shredded cheese. Veggies are usually pureed but weve been offering some cut sincewere on vaca and I try to alternate green vs orange. Nurse and milk before bed.

[fishbulb]

A question about this 3 meals/2 snacks plan that the pediatrician wants us to do now. If he has a big morning nursing session, does that count as breakfast? Usually he nurses around 7 and he isn't particularly interested in solids that early. He gets his first snack at daycare around 8:30. They keep feeding the babies until they stop eating, so I'm guessing that's more or less breakfast to him.

[karebear]

Apr 5, 2015 13:30:49 GMT -5 fish8412 said:

bennieangel

I get the broccoli and spinach nuggets at Whole Foods. They are tasty!

www.drpraegers.com/Broccoli-Littles-Kids

THose sound good. I will have to look for those!

[RandomName]

Apr 6, 2015 7:48:44 GMT -5 fishbulb said:

A question about this 3 meals/2 snacks plan that the pediatrician wants us to do now. If he has a big morning nursing session, does that count as breakfast? Usually he nurses around 7 and he isn't particularly interested in solids that early. He gets his first snack at daycare around 8:30. They keep feeding the babies until they stop eating, so I'm guessing that's more or less breakfast to him.

I don't know the official answer but when we were doing morning bottle I didn't give breakfast before daycare. She had her first 'food' of the day at daycare during their first snack. Breakfast started when we dropped that bottle. 

[bsouls]

fishbulb we do a bottle shortly after wake up - it's 4-6oz of WCM. Then about a half hour later she eats fruit and a frozen waffle. We do not do two snacks a day, because I feel she eats enough and I'm not sure how I feel about snacking yet. I have poor eating habits and I don't necessarily think a snack is required in between meals if they're not hungry. We definitely want three meals a day.

[fishbulb]

Thanks ladies. J is given solids 4 or 5 times a day, so I figure that's ok for now even if we don't follow the traditional 3/2 structure. Once he drops the morning nursing session I'll start offering breakfast.

[nattybumppo]

Apr 5, 2015 21:30:10 GMT -5 bennieangel said:

Our pedi also said that there's usually one big meal so pay attention to which that one is. For our lo he tends to eat a big lunch. She said a lot of babies it's breakfast

For my 3 year old it is breakfast for sure.  Some days she eats a ridiculous amount of breakfast.  (And some days she eats practically nothing.  But usually her hoss meal is breakfast.)