TTMA Eating

[dawnfire]

Your baby's eating, not yours.  I think most of us do pretty well stuffing our faces.

At one of our pediatrician appointments several months ago, our doctor said by 9 months we should be offering LO solids before BM/formula.  We've been doing that, and up until our return from vacation, LO would have the solids and then some formula.

Now, for both breakfast and dinner, LO will eat the solids, then pretty much refuses the bottle.  I'm still offering it after dinner, but LO pretty much just wants to play with the nipple because it's fun, or just shoves it out of the way so that it's not interfering with whatever he currently wants to look at.  Daycare is getting about 16 oz of formula into LO during the day in addition to solids there as well.  I guess I'm not to worried about him not getting the right things he needs in his little body, I just don't know if this is semi-normal. 

Dr. Google is most unhelpful since most of the information I've found doesn't seem to cover for where my LO is in his life...everything I've found so far is either for little bitties or over a year old.  

So what are you ladies experiencing with your LO and their eating habits as far as solids and formula/BM?

[hurricanerek]

I was told to offer milk before solids up until a year. Apparently milk is still where most of their nutrition comes from and the solids are just for fun.

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Jun 12, 2015 13:47:53 GMT -5 hurricanerek said:

I was told to offer milk before solids up until a year. Apparently milk is still where most of their nutrition comes from and the solids are just for fun.

+1

[bullybutt]

I still nurse on demand, but DD has pretty much transitioned to all regular food as her preference. She is drinking about 4-8 oz of breastmilk during the day at DC. I will offer WCM once I stop pumping. Whatever she doesn't drink, it'll go back into the fridge. She will get water with her meals also if it isn't the milk.

[jnnfrrose6]

She gets milk before breakfast (but it's up to an hour before), milk after lunch, milk with dinner (this is new this week), and water or milk with snacks depending on what gets poured. If you're concerned that milk is being refused, can you lessen the solids being offered so there's still room for the milk in his tummy?

[Liv]

I'm still relying on mostly the bottle and I offer that first. She likes to eat finger foods but doesn't eat much solid food at one time, unless it's meat. Chicken breast, ground beef, pulled pork, etc. She's definitely MY child! LOL

[anotherdreamer]

I've always heard that before one you should offer BM/F before solids as that's where the bulk of their nutrition comes from.

I nurse when they wake up at 9a, then offer breakfast as I get DS breakfast (cheerios and/or oatmeal). Then I nurse again at 12p, after that they often nap for 1-2 hours if I'm lucky. When they wake up they eat lunch (puree or half a cream cheese sandwich,something like that plus half a cheese stick). Sometimes they nurse at 3p, often they don't anymore. They nurse at 5-6p, then eat dinner with us. Often they'll also get some yogurt or something. Nurse at 8p, snack, and nurse again at 11p usually (not always, especially if their snack was heavy like yogurt). It really varies though because some days everyone is hungrier than others. They always nurse at least 5 times though.

[liziz]

We do milk first, then solids. It's been a bit of a battle with our DCP to make sure she offers milk first, but I think we have it under control.

After she turns one, the plan is to switch, and start offering her food first, and then milk if she's still hungry (or alongside her solid meal during the day)

[lucanjo14]

Formula first, then solids here too. I'm stressing about when the solids are supposed to become the primary food source because i just don't think DS will be getting enough nutrition. Can I just bottle feed him til he's 18?

[soon2bmrsn]

Rough schedule (I BF on demand but she's sort of put herself on a schedule...)

5:00am - nurse
7:00 - breakfast (i.e., 1/2 of a waffle and 1/3 of a banana)
9:30 - nurse
Noon - lunch (i.e., diced avocado, Greek yogurt, diced apricot)
2:00pm - nurse
5:00 - nurse (sometimes not; this is a session I could probably cut)
6:00 - dinner (i.e., oatmeal, black beans, some type of green veggie purée)
7:30 - nurse/bedtime

(she sometimes wakes to nurse around 2 or 3am)

[dawnfire]

lucanjo14, I know that would make things simple, right?

Thanks for the input so far, everyone! Good to see where everyone is, so to speak. I think LO still gets plenty of Formula, so I'm not too worried about that. He really enjoys the solids, now. I'm back to struggling to get him to try finger foods (apparently that was a cruise ship exclusive thing and the finger foods on land are not as good or something. Shiver me timbers!) He's eating the 3rd stage foods pretty well that he's trying, though.

[lablover13]

Our pediatrician also said to transition to food before milk between 9 and 12 months to aid in the transition away from nursing. We started that and at first it had little to no impact on her milk intake, but in the last week or so she has dropped a feeding. She still gets around 16oz of BM every day which is plenty so I am not too worried. She will be 11 months on the 15th.

I agree that google is not very helpful for this age and I didn't have any luck with kellymom either.

[dawnfire]

Last night (for science), I tried to give LO a bottle first. He looked at me like I was ridiculous! He played with the nipple, smiled at me charmingly, then when I tried to give it to him he kept refusing. DH thought maybe he wasn't hungry, but then we gave him his solids and he gulped them down! I guess we'll just follow LO's lead on this...he's pretty happy with what he's doing and is gaining weight. Like lablover13, LO's getting about 16-18 oz of formula a day so I think we're doing okay.

Still, glad to see what everyone else is experiencing. It helps!

[packerbacker]

We are still BFing about an hour before solids. My DD nurses 4 -5 times per day and eats 3 meals of solids.

[ladytiffany24]

This subject has me stressing out right now. DD will be turning 1 on July 4th so I'm trying to figure it all out.

I've started adding .5 oz of WCM to her bottles that she gets at the sitter (Pedi okay'd this) to help with the transition to WCM. I'll be gradually adding more with time. Also, per some other discussion, I'll be doing more finger food and less puree. So, once she's 1 and solids are more than just for fun...how should I expect her routine to go?

I'll probably still nurse her first thing in the morning. When she's completely transitioned to WCM, do I still give that to her like a bottle (but in a sippy cup). Meaning, give her the sippy cup and then feed her her solids for breakfast after that? Or give her the sippy of WCM with her meal? Then I was thinking a sippy of some water when she has snacks (or milk if she didn't drink much with a meal). Thoughts? Is this how it should work? I am still confused by this whole process.

[jnnfrrose6]

ladytiffany24 I give DS a sippy of milk when he gets up for the morning and then he gets breakfast at our regular breakfast time (up to an hour later). If he has milk left, he has it with breakfast, otherwise I give him water then. I've just started this with DD as well now that she's stopped nursing and on WCM. We actually stopped with bottles a couple months ago, too, and have only done sippys.

[soon2bmrsn]

Jun 16, 2015 7:02:23 GMT -5 ladytiffany24 said:

This subject has me stressing out right now. DD will be turning 1 on July 4th so I'm trying to figure it all out.

I've started adding .5 oz of WCM to her bottles that she gets at the sitter (Pedi okay'd this) to help with the transition to WCM. I'll be gradually adding more with time. Also, per some other discussion, I'll be doing more finger food and less puree. So, once she's 1 and solids are more than just for fun...how should I expect her routine to go?

I'll probably still nurse her first thing in the morning. When she's completely transitioned to WCM, do I still give that to her like a bottle (but in a sippy cup). Meaning, give her the sippy cup and then feed her her solids for breakfast after that? Or give her the sippy of WCM with her meal? Then I was thinking a sippy of some water when she has snacks (or milk if she didn't drink much with a meal). Thoughts? Is this how it should work? I am still confused by this whole process.

Try not to let it stress you out -- easier said than done, I know. It can be a gradual transition. She doesn't have to magically weaned to WCM the very day she turns one. Does she take a sippy well or is she still better with a bottle? I would transition either to the whole milk in a bottle (if she prefers bottles) OR to a sippy with EBM (if she's good with a sippy). Then you can work on transitioning toward the real goal of whole milk in a sippy by either replacing the bottle or what's in the sippy.

Does that make any sense at all? Haha

[ladytiffany24]

Jun 16, 2015 8:49:34 GMT -5 soon2bmrsn said:

Jun 16, 2015 7:02:23 GMT -5 ladytiffany24 said:

This subject has me stressing out right now. DD will be turning 1 on July 4th so I'm trying to figure it all out.

I've started adding .5 oz of WCM to her bottles that she gets at the sitter (Pedi okay'd this) to help with the transition to WCM. I'll be gradually adding more with time. Also, per some other discussion, I'll be doing more finger food and less puree. So, once she's 1 and solids are more than just for fun...how should I expect her routine to go?

I'll probably still nurse her first thing in the morning. When she's completely transitioned to WCM, do I still give that to her like a bottle (but in a sippy cup). Meaning, give her the sippy cup and then feed her her solids for breakfast after that? Or give her the sippy of WCM with her meal? Then I was thinking a sippy of some water when she has snacks (or milk if she didn't drink much with a meal). Thoughts? Is this how it should work? I am still confused by this whole process.

Try not to let it stress you out -- easier said than done, I know. It can be a gradual transition. She doesn't have to magically weaned to WCM the very day she turns one. Does she take a sippy well or is she still better with a bottle? I would transition either to the whole milk in a bottle (if she prefers bottles) OR to a sippy with EBM (if she's good with a sippy). Then you can work on transitioning toward the real goal of whole milk in a sippy by either replacing the bottle or what's in the sippy.

Does that make any sense at all? Haha

It does! Thank you!

[mary1217]

DD Still doesn't eat finger foods other than cheerios - not even bananas which she loves pureed. I asked the pedi the other day if I need to keep giving her formula until she was eating more finger foods and she said no just give her more food. But I can't expect the dcp to have her in a high chair all day to feed her.

She currently gets formula in a sippy cup when she wakes up and breakfast at daycare about 1 - 1 1/2 hours later. She goes about 5 hours between 6 oz of formula and eats about 6-8 oz of food between each sippy cup of formula.

I'm at a loss s to what to do when she turns one and goes off formula. Anyone else have older lo's who weren't eating finger foods at age one?

[dawnfire]

mary1217, LO's birthday isn't till July 24th, but we're not really into finger foods, either. He takes about 14 oz of purees to DC each day, and he eats every bit of it. Currently, he has what they call lunch at about 10:45 where he eats 2 of the containers of solids I send (usually a meat-based one and the other is a fruit and veggie based one.) He usually has some formula after that. Around 2:45 he has the afternoon snack which is a little 6 oz stage 3 fruit cup deal. He also has another bottle around that time.

Don't feel bad about sending more solids to DC! It'll be good practice. I'm a little worried about my LO also not being too keen on finger foods, but I guess he just needs more time.

[sararl07]

Since DD turned 11 months she can eat the freshly food prepared at DC. I am starting out slow and today it was BBQ shredded Chicken sweet peas and seasonal fruit for lunch. I hope she likes it because it would be wonderful not having to pack her lunch and snacks every morning.

With exception of her first feed we now eat solid foods then wait around 30 mins and then give the bottle of formula

[lea]

I feel like a FTM thinking about the transition this time. DS1 was so easy because by this point he was still nursing but cutting back on his own, eating lots of foods, gaining well, took a sippy with no issue, liked milk no problem, STTN, etc. DS2 doesn't eat as much, is on formula except for one MOTN nursing session, isn't consistent with a sippy, is still not on the growth charts (though at least gaining on his own little curve). I hope he likes milk even if I give him the bottle a bit longer...though hopefully he'll get the hang of the sippy soon. He at least has figured out how to get water out of the Miracle cup so that's better than nothing.

[jnnfrrose6]

Jun 16, 2015 13:46:34 GMT -5 sararl07 said:

Since DD turned 11 months she can eat the freshly food prepared at DC. I am starting out slow and today it was BBQ shredded Chicken sweet peas and seasonal fruit for lunch. I hope she likes it because it would be wonderful not having to pack her lunch and snacks every morning.

With exception of her first feed we now eat solid foods then wait around 30 mins and then give the bottle of formula

We got a new catering company at DC in April and they've given us the ok to use it in the infant room if we want. I accidentally ordered DS's lunches under DD's name a month or so ago and she loved it (they have extras so DS didn't go hungry that day). When we were traveling last week and my mother took the kids to DC I ordered lunches for her on purpose that time so mom wouldn't have to worry about it. It was great. I've been holding off doing it regularly until she transitions into the next room (maybe another 2 weeks), but the few times it's happened already have been great.

[honeybee434]

I guess I'll start a slow transition from my freezer milk to WCM with daycare. I'm sure I'll have DH give her a BM bottle in the morning until my freezer stash is gone but then I guess I'll try to replace one bottle at a time with WCM. Maybe one a week until she is fully transitioned until all of her daycare bottles are regular milk. I know she isn't anywhere near ready for a sippy of milk in one sitting. I'm lucky if I can get a few ounces of water in her all day from her sippy now.

[jnnfrrose6]

Jun 16, 2015 21:37:18 GMT -5 honeybee434 said:

I guess I'll start a slow transition from my freezer milk to WCM with daycare. I'm sure I'll have DH give her a BM bottle in the morning until my freezer stash is gone but then I guess I'll try to replace one bottle at a time with WCM. Maybe one a week until she is fully transitioned until all of her daycare bottles are regular milk. I know she isn't anywhere near ready for a sippy of milk in one sitting. I'm lucky if I can get a few ounces of water in her all day from her sippy now.

We did milk in the sippys so she'd have more incentive to learn to drink out of them.