Snacks. Schedule of food.

[hannamarin]

For 6-12mth olds

I am not sure how to fit food/snacks mostly into our day

When she wakes up from a nap, should I give her a drink of water? A snack?

What is your schedule?
630am. Wake up
7am cereal

9am nap
10am snack (cheerios. Enough?)

1200. Lunch
100pm nap
200pm snack (?? Fruit? How much)

500pm dinner

730pm bedtime.

[bunch]

I have no idea. our schedule right now is 7 wake 730 nurse 830 breakfast 9 nap 12 lunch 1 nap 3 nurse 4-6 constant snacking 630 dinner 8 nurse bed. what are you doing for snacks? I feel like there has to be more than cheese, frozen vegs, fruit and we pretzels, but I can't figure out what.

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6:30 am milk
7:00 am fruit and cheerios
10:00 am cheese, fruit, milk
12:00 pm lunch
3 pm snack (arrowroot, yogurt, etc)
4 pm milk
6 pm dinner
7:30 pm milk
4 am milk (sigh)
My DS has been doing about that for months, but he still eats very little solids. Depends on the day. We try to offer at least 3 meals and 2 snacks anyway.

[bunch]

Oh we also do the 4 a milk. lol I was pretending to forget.

[starlily]

6:45 (wakeup): milk & a very light snack

8:30 - breakfast at daycare; milk

11ish - lunch; milk

2:30/3ish (post nap) - snack; milk or water)

5:45 - dinner; milk

7ish - bedtime

[hannamarin]

Yeah, Layla never wakes up hungry, thanks to the 4am feeding. I dont even know why she wakes up. She should wait until she is hungry.
Thanks for the snack ideas.
For cheese, do you just cut it up?

[Willis Jackson]

I just nurse her outside of mealtimes. I don't know when I'll start giving her real snacks- probably not until she turns 1, at least.

Oh, and her schedule is roughly this:
5am- nurse
(wake up 6:30a)
7am- breakfast
(morning nap 9a-10a)
10a- nurse
noon- lunch
1:30p- nurse
(afternoon nap 2p-4p)
4p- nurse
6p- dinner
7p- nurse
(bedtime 8p)

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Cheese you can give shredded, or we break up a cheese string.

We started snacks in addition to meals because he eats so little. An extra pair of raspberries at snack is significant.

[bunch]

I buy those packaged 2 by 4 in slices of cheese. cheese stick section.

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Ds is moving very slowly on the table foods do to mspi. He still takes 36-37 ounces a day ( ff) he gets breakfast ( oatmeal or fruit) & lunch 1 fruit 1 veggie. He goes down around 5:45 pm fir the night so he misses dinner with us but takes an 8 oz bottle before bed

[hannamarin]

Jul 17, 2012 2:36:42 GMT -5 @kimbus22 said:

This was what he ate today, which is pretty typical...

6am wake up - 8 oz bottle

830am - nap

10am - Handful of Cheerios, 1/2 Banana, handful of Blueberries, Scrambled Egg, Shredded Cheese

1230pm - 6 oz bottle

2pm - nap

4pm - Slice of Turkey Meatloaf, Handful of Pasta Salad, 3 tbsp acorn squash, 4 or 5 piece of broccoli, handful of blueberries, 2 small slices watermelon

645pm - 8 oz bottle

I just keep a straw cup with water near us all day long. He goes and gets it if he wants it. Or if I think it's been a while since I've seen him drink, I hand it to him. We don't really do snacks. He sleeps a lot and he eats a lot at one sitting so I feel like if I did any more solid foods, he'd be in his high chair all day. We're looking at turning his midday bottle into a solid meal though and making the other two solid meals smaller.

Wow, that is a good amount of food. I think I needto encourage Layla more.

[lala]

We don't really do snacks as a matter of course right now. Often between meals I'll just nurse her again and if that doesn't satisfy her I'll get her a cracker or some fruit. I think she starting to actually want a snack though, so I'll be reevaluating.

She eats 3 big meals a day - her breakfast that she just finished included 5 blackberries, a small handful of blueberries, 6 small strawberries, a waffle and a sausage link. She also nursed before we came downstairs. She is now crawling around scavenging for food she dropped. She will literally eat all day if I let her.

She also still nurses at least 5 times a day, often more. Like a PP said, it really depends on how much they eat. For DD 2 raspberries is nothing and wouldn't make a dent, she'd just sign more and start to grunt & scream. For that poster's son, 2 raspberries is a lot b/c he doesn't eat as many solids. There are a lot of factors.

[biscoffcookies]

This makes me feel completely behind the curve.

DD is 7.5 months and still isn't eating solids with any regularity. We've tried oatmeal, rice cereal, and fruit, but she's more interested in chewing on the spoon than actually eating the food. If I give her "real people" food a la BLW, she just treats it like a teething ring/remote control/other toy that she likes to chew and suck on, not as something to be ingested. Sigh.

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Jul 17, 2012 10:52:08 GMT -5 biscoffcookies said:

This makes me feel completely behind the curve.

DD is 7.5 months and still isn't eating solids with any regularity. We've tried oatmeal, rice cereal, and fruit, but she's more interested in chewing on the spoon than actually eating the food. If I give her "real people" food a la BLW, she just treats it like a teething ring/remote control/other toy that she likes to chew and suck on, not as something to be ingested. Sigh.

Sounds like she's just not ready yet.

It's not a race. Just keep offering, and some day she'll be all over it. Some kids do this at 6 months, some do it at 18 months. Most are somewhere in between.

[biscoffcookies]

Jul 17, 2012 10:57:26 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

Jul 17, 2012 10:52:08 GMT -5 biscoffcookies said:

This makes me feel completely behind the curve.

DD is 7.5 months and still isn't eating solids with any regularity. We've tried oatmeal, rice cereal, and fruit, but she's more interested in chewing on the spoon than actually eating the food. If I give her "real people" food a la BLW, she just treats it like a teething ring/remote control/other toy that she likes to chew and suck on, not as something to be ingested. Sigh.

Sounds like she's just not ready yet.

It's not a race. Just keep offering, and some day she'll be all over it. Some kids do this at 6 months, some do it at 18 months. Most are somewhere in between.

Thanks for that -- I appreciate it. Her daycare teachers asked me the other day why I hadn't sent solids in yet for her. When I told them she wasn't really eating them at home either, they kind of went :-| so as a FTM I was starting to feel like a solids-introducing failure.

[karinothing]

Jul 17, 2012 11:30:16 GMT -5 biscoffcookies said:

Jul 17, 2012 10:57:26 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

Sounds like she's just not ready yet.

It's not a race. Just keep offering, and some day she'll be all over it. Some kids do this at 6 months, some do it at 18 months. Most are somewhere in between.

Thanks for that -- I appreciate it. Her daycare teachers asked me the other day why I hadn't sent solids in yet for her. When I told them she wasn't really eating them at home either, they kind of went so as a FTM I was starting to feel like a solids-introducing failure.

Don't feel like a solids failure! We started with BLW and DS ate well for about 1.5 months. Then at 8 months he just stopped. We were on week five of zero solids until last night where he managed to eat one cheerio and attacked a puree pouch. I kind of feel dumb that we are going backwards (started at finger foods and went to purees ha ha) but I keep telling myself to follow his lead.

Babies decide when/what they want to eat. Nothing you can do to force them.