Feeding at 1 year

Ok, so I was looking on here to find help with my girls daily feedings and looked to see what other people do at one year. But I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, so I figured I would just post.
So I see that some of you do breakfast, lunch, dinner, with snacks and milk or water. Mine are still on formula in bottles (they don't understand sippies yet) and we still feed them with the same schedule we have since they were born - which is 8 oz bottle plus jars of baby food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and a bedtime bottle. We are giving them some little solids (we held off for a little while because they were gaggers), like cheerios, gold fish, puffs, we just tried some mac and cheese, etc... with each meal, but they only eat a couple bites. They eat the whole jar of baby food when we feed them.
Well I guess what I feel like is that my kids shouldn't have the baby food anymore and should be transitioning to milk, but I am worried that since they are only eating small amounts of the solids and do not know how to drink from sippies yet, that they will not be getting enough nutrition if I drop the jars of baby food and bottles of formula and just have them have like waffles, sandwiches, veggies, with milk etc...
Any advice??

 

At one year Katie was done with the bottles completely. No looking back. So what we did was:

7 AM milk in a sippy
8 AM cup of yogurt
11 AM milk in a sippy
1 PM lunch, which was still baby food. A stage 3 jar
3 PM milk in a sippy
5 PM dinne time a baby jar stage 3
6:30 PM a snack
8 PM milk sippy and to bed

We didn't really start with table foods until about 15 months. She didn't start getting a lot of teeth until then.

HTH

 

Not sure if this helps but my girls on weigh 16 and 19lbs.

We only do soymilk in a sippy or water (no juice). They eat 3 meals a day with us whatever we eat just cut up smaller. I try to give them at least an avacado per day for the added fat. I just started giving them some ice cream at night but they're not to sure if they like it yet. I give them as much to eat at each meal as they want and we haven't been on baby food since 9mths. They also get a snack after their afternoon nap usually organic crackers and some cheese or something like that. They just turned a year last weekend.

 

We weren't off formula completely until 15 months. I gradually decreased the amount of formula and increased the milk so they could tolerate it. One thing I needed to do with my girls was decrease the amount in the bottles so they would eat solid foods. So the first bottle to go was the mid-afternoon bottle and it was replaced with a snack (yogurt) and a sippy of water. Then the lunch bottle was replaced by a sippy of formula/milk with lunch. I gave finger food while sneaking in spoonfuls of baby food since I was sure they weren't eating enough. Once I was confident they would eat the finger foods when hungry I stopped spoon feeding them. GL figuring it all out.

 

Molly has 6 teeth, while Stefan only has his bottom 2. Here is their schedule,

wake up: 8 oz bottle of formula, (switching to whole milk next week... finishing what I have in stock)
*8:30 cheerios, waffle, toast or pancake and fruit cup or sippy with 4 oz of juice
*10:00 puffs, animal crackers, or some other cracker and 4 oz of water
*11:00 8 oz bottle of milk and nap
*2-3 pm lunch (grilled cheese sandwich, soup (mine like chicken noodle o's and veggie soups), Ramen Noodles are also good for them (especially the ones with veggies in them, just chop up the noodles), I give mine pb and j, because I know they don't have peanut allergies, I use ham, chicken or turkey lunch meat, chicken nuggets baked in the oven, or left overs from night before and canned veggies like peas, carrots or green beans, french fries also baked in the oven, and milk in sippys
*5-6 pm fruit and crackers or toast with water
*8:30 dinner with family or basically same as lunch menu.
bottle of milk and bed.

I am eventually going to get rid of bottles, but they were sick last month and so I gave in and went back to bottles for security reasons... Now I have to start over.

I use the Nubby sippy cups, they are inexpensive, and have soft nipples for them to drink from. They get the idea of how to use a sippy cup, but like the soft tip like a bottle! You can even remove the nipple from the cap to wash them seperately. If I can't get it clean for some reason, I soak it, then boil it in hot water, and wash one more time.... don't have to do that very often though. They are the best! I use the word "nipple" for loss of a better name. They also don't usually leak or spill!!!! Yeah!!!!

You would be surprised at what Stefan can eat with only 2 teeth. He is right there with his sister when it comes to eating. He was bad about gagging at first, too, but it is all a learning process and they will get use to it. Your best bet is to start them on the table foods and just cut them up into itty bitty bites. They will eventually get it. But they have to learn how to eat that texture. Mine have been eating some table foods since 9 months. I just cut them into unbelievably small bites. Just remember, it takes a lot bigger bite than you would think to really choke them. If you make it small enough, even if they gag, it will only last a week or two and then you will have real eaters on your hands and you can say bye-bye to buying baby foods! It began to get way too expensive for me. Now mine even eat Pizza! Molly's favorite might I add, next to biscuits! LOL!

GL! It will come in time!

 

We only got rid of bottles at 14 months so I don't think it's an issue at all. Just keep giving them bottles between meals until they understand the sippy.

That being said, at 12 months they need the nutrition from normal food, and they'll get more out of it than baby food and formula, although I'd stick to formula until they are mostly done with baby food. Just give them one jar then a few bites of finger foods, and gradually increase the amount of finger foods... try different things to keep it balanced, and give them 2-3 things at the same time. Keep in mind that they'll get as much from a few bites of finger food than from a jar of baby food, so don't sweat it if they don't seem to eat much. Just keep offering new things cut in small pieces and start cutting down baby food.

Once they're more comfortable with eating finger foods, you can start to get rid of baby food one meal at a time. We stopped baby food at 11.5 months because they just didn't want to be spoon fed anymore, although we stuck with yogurt/cereal for breakfast until 13 months.

Edit: we didn't have snacks until we got rid of bottles, then just switched to snack with milk in sippies instead of the 3pm bottle. They don't have a morning snack.

 

Mine are only a couple weeks off a year, but here's what we do.
7am -bottle
8.30- breakfast -they still love rice cereal or oatmeal and i mix it with diced fruit that I mush a little
11am -bottle
12.30 - lunch - yoghurt and finger foods like cheerios, fruit melt thingies, cheese, chopped banana etc and sippy
3.15 - snack of finger foods and sippy
5 - dinner - pasta or mashed sweet potato with softly cooked and finely chopped veges (peas, carrots, corn etc), sometimes they have scrambled eggs. They're working towards eating the same things we do but cut finely.
6.45 - bottle.

They don't know it yet but by this weekend the 11 am bottle will be gone. Sometime next week they'll run out of formula and we'll switch to whole milk and sippies. Thankfully they both have the sippy thing down, but whether they'll like something else in it or not remains to be seen.

 

Mine are still on bottles too at 15 mo. Just not ready to take them off yet.
So their schedule is:
600am bottle
700 breakfast (scrambed eggs, toast, fruit, milk)
830-10 nap
10 bottle 6oz
1100 lunch chicken nuggets or real chicken, mixed veggies from a can and fruit
nap 130-3
3 bottle 6oz
500 dinner same as lunch
700 snack (cheerios, graham crackers etc)
730 bottle 6 oz and bed time

 

We are transitioning to sippy cups as well. They are down to 1 bottle in the am. They have sippies with formula at lunchtime, snack and dinner. I tried lots of sippy cups and they did best with the Nuby ones or the Munchkin ones that are like Nuby. They are more like a nipple on a bottle. Once they figured out how to bite them, so the formula leaked everywhere, I switched. It takes a while, but they will figure out the sippy cups. I would still do bottles until they are getting enough from the sippy. My girls are eating pretty much whatever we eat right now. I started table foods around 9 months or so and keep adding new things as they get older. I cut up chicken, pork, ham and hamburger for their meats. They will eat almost any fruit. Their favorite right now is steamed apples with cinnamon, but they also love bananas, mango and pears. They love frozen peas too. For snacks, they love puffs, little fruits, mini ritz and rice cakes. I'm always trying to think of new things to feed them. They sometimes have issues with new textures. It takes a while for them to get the hang of it. Just keep trying and eventually they catch on. Then, you can decrease the bottles and switch to milk.

 

The doctor said they could have anything that is not spicy. So basically I put aside what I'm having before adding any flavoring. I also used stage 3 foods. Examples:
Breakfast - Wheat Pancakes, french toast cut up and cherrios with a little oatmeal + 8 oz Milk
Lunch - Cut up chicken, or egg or pasta, then a veggie either baby food for adult smooshed & depending on the size of the meal a stage3 food + 6 oz milk
Dinner - Cut up fresh fruit and cheese, plus yo baby yogurt + juice + small stage 3 meal (If on the go I use stage 1- 3 foods) It's still nutriution and it's OK to use both as long as you are teaching to eat on their own
Before Bed - cearal + 8oz milk

Somedays that get more "adult" food then others...it's OK.

 

im no help because we are only on homemade everything mush! my girls have a immature palette we had to do baby stepjs; small bits of muffin/mum mums what ever can dissolve into something they love-yougurt--its a small step we are on milk but in bottles-they are still learning the steps to sippy/tippy's--We have a OT and Resource teacher working on it-its very frustating they will gag on everything and one of my daughter sticks her toungue out instead of chewing -the other one doesnt even mouth things-sooooooooooooo its a long road to getting to that place of only table foods! They eat very well thou all the same stuff we do only senior citizen mush :giggle:



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Ok, so I was looking on here to find help with my girls daily feedings and looked to see what other people do at one year. But I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, so I figured I would just post.
So I see that some of you do breakfast, lunch, dinner, with snacks and milk or water. Mine are still on formula in bottles (they don't understand sippies yet) and we still feed them with the same schedule we have since they were born - which is 8 oz bottle plus jars of baby food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and a bedtime bottle. We are giving them some little solids (we held off for a little while because they were gaggers), like cheerios, gold fish, puffs, we just tried some mac and cheese, etc... with each meal, but they only eat a couple bites. They eat the whole jar of baby food when we feed them.
Well I guess what I feel like is that my kids shouldn't have the baby food anymore and should be transitioning to milk, but I am worried that since they are only eating small amounts of the solids and do not know how to drink from sippies yet, that they will not be getting enough nutrition if I drop the jars of baby food and bottles of formula and just have them have like waffles, sandwiches, veggies, with milk etc...
Any advice??