How much are you feeing your 8 month olds?

We but stage 2 Gerber foods in the 4oz jar.

IM curious how much your feeding your 8 month olds

Brkfst, lunch, dinner, and snacks also formula or BM?

Any help would be great

 

When mine were 8 months old, they were still on stage 2 so our schedule was kind of like this
7:30-8am Breakfast: would be rice or oatmeal cereal mixed w/ formula and a stage 2 fruit

8:30-9am- bottle (formula) around 6 oz

11am-12noon (depending when they got up from nap) was lunch.. stage 2 veggie and fruit, practice with puffs & cheerios and a bottle (4-6oz)

2pm- bottle around 6 oz

5pm dinner--stage 2 fruit, veggie, a little finger food (my DD did not have teeth yet, so it would have to be stuff she could gum), bottle

8pm-bottle before bed.

 

What size were the stage 2's? Ours our 4oz each and I normally give him one fruit and veggie. and I want to make certain im not giving too much.

 

Hi,

7ish 6oz bottle and 3.5oz jar of stage 1 fruit or yoghurt each

11ish 6oz bottle and 18 scoops or banana & oat cereal mixed with 3oz milk + water shared

3ish 7oz jar of stage 2 spaghetti, pasta, noodles and finger foods - cucumber, banana, apple, pears (this is wear i am at loss) shared

5ish 6oz bottle

5.30ish 7oz jar of stage 2 mixed with half a 4oz jar of stage 1 usually veg lasagne with mixed medley shared

We used to do solids then bottle before bed but when they dropped the fourth bottle i had to change it around abit to make sure they got the full amount - changing to bottle, solids bed ensures they are hungry enough to drink the full bottle.

I might try to get them to eat cereal after the morning bottle so i don't have too do solids right before bed as it makes our earlier bath a waste of time lol I find they aren't all to hungry after the morning bottle though.

I worry i'm not feeding them enough, they refuse to eat more than this so i can only assume they are getting the amount they need. They have been sttn since 7months. HTH

 

Sorry forgot to sat that the girls are still on prebitotic catch up formula by cow & gate

 

Mine are 9 months and are getting about 5 oz of solid foods a day - a combination of rice cereal, fruit and a veggie on the side. This month we are going to add the second meal in which will be meat and a veggie. I know most probably feed theirs more, but my ped is big on that milk/formula should me the main food and the solids are just for practice. He didn't want me to start solids until 6 months and that was just fruit, cereal and veggies. He said then at 9 months I can start meat. I'm just waiting for my 9 month appt to start meat to find out how much. He told me 3 tablespoons of ceral, two of fruit and one of veggies, the rest is all breastfeeding (7x a day) I also mix in 1 oz of prune joice and 1/2 of formula into their mixture. Hope this helps.

 

Here's a rough schedule for our 8 1/2 month old babies:

6:30a - 8 ounce bottle
8:30a - nap (1 hour)
9:30a - water after nap
10:00a - solid meal (6 ounces, stage 3 fruit), finger foods, water
12:30ish – nap
1:30 or 2:00p - 8 ounce bottle
3:30 or 4:00 - maybe a quick nap for Owen
4:30 or 5:00p - solid meal (6 ounce, stage 3 veggie), finger foods, water
7:00p - 8 ounce bottle

For us right now a finger food feeding would be 2 mum-mums, cut up dry whole wheat toast, 6-8 yogurt melts, 1/2 slice sharp cheddar cheese, cut up pears or peaches, etc. I offer one of these options with each solid meal. Mine eat a lot, but it varies each day as to how hungry they are so this is what I usually plan to give. Some times they eat it all, sometimes not. Hope this helps!