Canned Food Babies....
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Topic: Canned Food Babies....
Posted By: KiwiL
Subject: Canned Food Babies....
Date Posted: 24 July 2009 at 6:33pm
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Random topic I know....
Those of you who mostly used tinned food for your baby, how much did they eat at around 10 months, and how much milk were they drinking? (If you know how much home made they were eating, that is all good too). I know Jackson is a LOOOONG way off eating what he should, but I am curious just how much that is. Different for every baby I guess... but something to compare to would be good. There are plenty of guidelines around for formula and milk intake, but very little about solids. Jackson eats next to nothing, but I want to start weaning him from this NG tube soon, so..... |
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Posted By: KiwiL
Date Posted: 24 July 2009 at 6:34pm
| Oooh, and perhaps if you could tie your answers into your feeding routine too? We're just so 'unnormal' that I just don't know what things are normal!! |
Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 24 July 2009 at 7:18pm
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We didn't use all that many tins but I would say that my two would eat the equivalent (maximum) of one of the little tins for each meal at that age.
So routine: 7am - bottle (150-200ml) & baby cereal with 1/3 tin of fruit. 8.30 - 9.30 am nap sometime between 11 and noon - bottle (150ml) and lunch- about the size of a small tin or fingerfood (sandwiches, crackers, fruit, cheese etc) 12.30 - 3pm - nap 3pm (ish) - bottle (150ml) 5 - dinner 6.30 - bottle (200ml) bed I dropped the lunch time bottle at about 10months I think and the 3pm bottle at around 14months. The morning sleep only went about 6 weeks ago. Sophie has never really drunk all of the milk above but that is what I offered. Hope it helps a bit. -------------   
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Posted By: LeahandJoel
Date Posted: 24 July 2009 at 7:50pm
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Joel has 7.15am porridge and a whole mashed banana for breakfast (or about the same amount of fruit, I just wizz a can of normal fruit and use that) 8.30 - 220mls bottle he now seems to be dropping his morning sleep so at about 10.30 I give hima cruskit or gingernut as a snack 11.30 lunch - nomally 1/2 a sammie with marmite (have tried other spreads but hes not a fan!) 1/2 a kiwifruit, either cruskit or gingernut depending on what he had for a snack, and a yogurt (just a normal adult yogurt, never tried the baby ones) 12.30 220ml bottle then try for a sleep, on a good day that goes till 3.30, today only lasted 45 mins 4.30 dinner - some vege and meat, normally left over from our dinner the night before, sometimes he eats this other times he has custard and fruit, or he does he one of the big only organics junior range mango rice pudding (yes he eats the whole thing and has done since about 8 months!!) he loves scrambled egg with frozen peas (still frozen not cooked!) and last night had frozen berries as well. 6.00 bedtime bottle 250ml most of the time he finishes all his bottles but if he leaves any its only about 40 mls. we dropped the 4th bottle at about 8 months and had changed to food first at 6 1/2 months (very early I know) You probably didn't really want to know what my wee piggy of a man will eat but thats an average day for us. -------------  
 
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Posted By: KiwiL
Date Posted: 24 July 2009 at 8:59pm
Heh heh, I was thinking "oh my goodness!" as I read what Joel ate!! But even Sophie's amounts seem insurmountable for us at the moment. 
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Posted By: LeahandJoel
Date Posted: 25 July 2009 at 1:20pm
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Yeah...he has always eaten alot I think, Leah at the same age was eating about half the amount but she was a slack eater and I was quite paranoid about food then, have loosened up a lot since then. Somedays he will eat hardly anything and other days its non stop. When he first started solids, by the end of the first week he was on a full jar of fruit/veg per meal, 3 meals a day....none of the gentle lead into solids here! -------------
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Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 25 July 2009 at 1:27pm
lol Laurie - a huge amount of Sophie's gets thrown on the floor (our dog is now on a diet) she is a monkey  -------------
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Posted By: SophiasMummy
Date Posted: 25 July 2009 at 8:39pm
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Soph is a good eater but still pretty tough getting milk into her, she will take food over milk any day!
7.30 brekky porridge + 3T fruit 1/3-2/3 piece of toast, a lot goes on the floor! 9.30 offer 240ml milk, usually has 150ml or so 10.30 snack, usually some fruit. 10.45-1ish nap 1ish lunch, bout 1/2cup of something generally fruit or vege, then a cruskit with spread. If we are out somewhere she will usually have a large jar of the only organics fruit flavoured something. 3ish milk - very variable what she will take, today 100ml, yesterday 200ml! 4ish snack if she seems hungry, made banana biscotti so she has that at the mo 4.30 maybe a nap 5 dinner probably 1/2-3/4cup food, maybe some finger food as well 6.30 or so milk again who knows how much she will have! Soph is dairy free so hence no yoghurts etc, makes lunch a bit hard sometimes. I generally spoon feed her something shen give finger food so she can eat till she is full. When she starts biffing the food al over the show and loses interest I figure she is full. Hope that helps some what. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 25 July 2009 at 9:08pm
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This is from memory - we got Emma into this routine from when she was around 8-9 months old I think.
7:00 am (on waking up) bottle 150ml 9:00 am breakfast - 1 small jar ie 110g of b'fast type food - fruit, muesli, porridge 11:00 am lunch - 1/2 large jar ie 170g of main food ie beef & pasta 13:00 pm (after nap) bottle 150ml 15:00 pm snack - chooped up fruit, toast, cherrios, yoghurt etc 17:00 pm dinner - the rest of the jar from lunch 18:30 pm - this is when we have dinner as family so used to give little bits of what we were eating but those were mostly not eaten 19:00 pm - bottle 150ml before bedtime Emma was never a big eater and she's still tiny. We also used to offer her bits in between ie crackers but those were mostly rejected. Emma does seem to eat more when she's around Gina and they are both eating - which is handy  Also daycare reports Emma as a good eater so there must be something in getting a few kids eating together - not sure how this will help you though------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 26 July 2009 at 10:29am
Jake ate about 1.5-2 jars per main meal at that age plus finger food and 2 snacks, and 3x milk feeds ... but he was a guts!  ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: KiwiL
Date Posted: 26 July 2009 at 9:26pm
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Thanks so much for the comments.
I hate this bl**dy NG tube SO much. I really don't believe it has helped us at all. Jackson's had one sickness after another since having it in, he's vomiting all the time and the weight gain has been minimal. Considering pulling it out, but so scared as well.... |