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    Posted: 15 April 2010 at 7:55am
I am really confused about how much food the girls should be having, or if I'm not giving them enough. They have started sleeping less at night, and I don't know why, or if it's because they are hungry. I am lost with this whole solids thing!!!

At the moment, in the morning, they have a bottle and then some breakfast (usually fruit of some sort - apple & blueberry muesli, or apple and cereal from the Watties range) which is usually around 8am or so. Then they have lunch (toast with vegemite or avocado or some veges, then fruit) and a bottle around 12ish, then tea (veges) and a bottle around 4/5pm and then their last bottle at 8.30pm. All of their bottles are 220ml.

Am I supposed to introduce snacks at all? They have water in between their bottles as well. What else can I give them for lunch/breakfast /tea etc? I am happy to do finger food as well as pureed. I just don't know what I'm doing!!! We have found that anything with full cream milk (especially age appropriate Watties jars) does not agree with them at all - it's usually followed by projectile spew and diarrhoea

Any help would be hugely appreciated...this solids lark gets so confusing!!
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That sounds about right :) and is pretty much what we do with Bella(except I havent introduced fingerfood yet).

With Caden I dont think he started having snacks until he was about 10-11 months, and then it was only a cracker or some fruit or whatever. I just stuck with the 3 meals, and at each meal he always had some fruit with whatever else he was having.


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DS who is 8 months has about the same. He normally has 3 - 4 bottles a day and three meals although meals can range from him just eating a few spoonfuls to the whole jar.
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Sakata Plain Rice crackers & Salada original or lite crackers are a hit in my household for snacks. Just recently I've also started introducing Healtheries Plain rice cakes as well. All three make a huge mess but I do know that none of these three products contain artificial colours or preservatives so am happy with them to snack on them.

We introduced the rice cracker first cause they'd suck on them until they learnt to bite.

You could also do toasted bread with marmite on it. Bake it in the oven & store in airtight container.
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I think at 9 months is when you do the switch around from bottle first to food first. If they are grizzly & won't wait for you to make their breakfast a finger of toast to "play" with will occupy them til you are ready.
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With lunch and dinner we have always done solids first (it just worked better for us that way) but breakfast has always been bottle first. They sometimes get a rusk to chew on to occupy them until I'm ready...sometimes I spread avocado or marmite on that (Jade won't eat avocado but Amber loves it).

It's grocery day today, so I might grab some of those rice crackers...I got some corn ones last week but got the wrong ones
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