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Topic: solids
Posted By: popcorn
Subject: solids
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 4:42pm
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Hi
Just wondering 1) How many solid meals did your baby have at 6.5months a day? 2) How much would they eat at each meal? 3) how many bottles and how many mls |
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 4:49pm
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1) How many solid meals did your baby have at 6.5months a day?
Because Cooper has been so blah about solids he was only having dinner. Now I've just introduced lunch. He needs his morning bottle, so I won't be introducing breakfast for awhile yet. 2) How much would they eat at each meal? I don't make meals, don't have the time or energy. Lunch - yesterday he has a whole tin. Dinner - he eats 1/2 can plus 100ml bottle of water. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 4:55pm
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1) How many solid meals did your baby have at 6.5months a day?
2, sometimes 3. He wasn't very keen on breakfast. I'd offer, if he wanted it he would have it, if he clamped his mouth shut or made a fuss I left it. 2) How much would they eat at each meal? He went through stages of being fussy and not wanting much if anything but usually about 1/2 a jar - 1 jar if we were really lucky. Plus we introduced finger foods. |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 4:55pm
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2 meals, breakfast and dinner. Veges for both,..at this age it was still tins. 3/4 to One tin each meal. Started making my own once she was having 3 tins a day and it was costing too much $$! Isla would still be having 10 bottles a day now if we let her. Recommeneded is 5 x 200ml bottles I think.
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 4:57pm
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Spencer was on 2 meals then, lunch and dinner, it wasn't until around 7 months that he was interested in breakfast. He would have 3 ice cubes worth of diff veges/fruit/meat and slowly progressed to 4 and is now on 5 plus finger foods.
Bottles he had 5-6 a day, I would make up 180ml but he wouldn't always drink it all, now he is on 4. His milk dropped quite drastically when I swapped to giving solids first at around 8.5 months. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 5:22pm
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Tom was on 3 meals.
7am wake- boob 8am- baby muesli and maybe some fruit (now he also gets a piece of toast with vegemite 10-11am bottle 200-270ml 12 - lunch....equivelant of a can/jar minimum. Sometimes he's have fruit as well 2-3pm bottle 200-270ml 5pm bottle 200-270ml 6pm dinner another jar plus some dessert |
Posted By: LJsmum
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 8:10pm
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HI simone
Thinking back to when Luke was that age it's about teh same as what NZpiper said. I progressed to 3 meals so that by 7 months he was eating dinner too. So wake up - BF Breakfast 10 or 11am BF Lunch 2 or 3 BF Dinner BF I think at seven or 7.5 months I added morning and afternoon tea of finger food so fruit for morning tea, like banana, or rusk or cruskit with lots of marmite! (the best cracker!) I know some of my friends didn't offer the morning and afternoon teas to much later but i felt Luke was ready for finger food then actually perfers it. I think it's at 8 months were food is before milk can't remember!!  -------------  
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Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 8:14pm
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HHmm interesting, as per usual T likes to be like his big friend Luke, he LOVES finger food well marmite on toast/cruskit he is even trying to feed himself with the spoon and gets it in his mouth! So i think he will be a finger food kid too, just a bit too young yet
Seems like T is doing similar to everyone so thats good, thats a relief! I dont want to overfeed him! More importantly HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUKIE!!!!!!!! I cant believe its a whole year! |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 8:19pm
| that is interesting Milo, I have been wondering about introducing morning and afternoon tea as Tom seems to eat so much at his meals. |
Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 8:25pm
| they say 8-9 months for finger foods dont they but Tom is crawling isnt he so burning more energy. most kids dont crawl till a bit later so may not need them earlier.. just an idea |
Posted By: Mum2ET
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 8:26pm
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1) How many solid meals did your baby have at 6.5months a day? Had jus moved Ella onto 3 meals a day then (b/fast, lunch & dinner). Introduced afternoon tea around 7.5 months and am just now thinking about adding morning tea between 1/2 jar to 1 jar depending on what food it was 5 b/f a day ------------- Mum to Ella (5) and Tom (2) |
Posted By: popcorn
Date Posted: 31 March 2008 at 10:11am
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Thanks everyone!
Also do you have a set pattern for veges at lunch, fruit or custard for dinner that kind of thing? I have noticed some people having a routine |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 31 March 2008 at 1:15pm
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1) How many solid meals did your baby have at 6.5months a day?
One (started at 6 months) 2) How much would they eat at each meal? From memory, around 2-4 cubes (all food was homemade) 3) how many bottles and how many mls breastfed Now I do all 3 breaakfast - cereal and vege (as she won't eat fruit) Lunch - either veges or finger food (bread and marmite, carrot/celery/courgette sticks) Snack- only on days she needs it, will be finger food Dinner - meat and veges. i don't do custard or anything like that as I am avoiding dairy and wheat. -------------  
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