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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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  | .Mel   Senior Member
 
   
   
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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.
 
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  | kebakat   Senior Member
 
   
 
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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.
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  | Kellz   Senior Member
 
   
   
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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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  | cuppatea   Senior Member
 
   
   
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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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  | peanut butter   Senior Member
 
   
 
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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
 
 
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  | LJsmum   Senior Member
 
   
   
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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.
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  | popcorn   Senior Member
 
   
   
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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!
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  | peanut butter   Senior Member
 
   
 
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   that is interesting Milo, I have been wondering about introducing morning and afternoon tea as Tom seems to eat so much at his meals.
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   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
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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
 2) How much would they eat at each meal?
 between 1/2 jar to 1 jar depending on what food it was 
 3) how many bottles and how many mls
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  | popcorn   Senior Member
 
   
   
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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
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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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