Let's talk about babies and food!

[pinkcat]

Now that most babies are almost 1 or 1, what does their feeding schedule look like? 

How many ounces of milk/formula are they getting?

What kind of cup are they drinking out of? 

What do their meals look like each day?

Any favorite foods?

What do you do for snacks? 

[sarahh]

I have one of the older babies (Dec 27) but here is our schedule:

How many ounces of milk/formula are they getting? I'd say 10-15oz whole milk and one 6 oz formula bottle. Trying to finish up the formula so we are still giving a bottle before bed that we will switch out to more whole milk when we are done.

What kind of cup are they drinking out of? Still the one bottle but otherwise a sippy cup. Sometimes straw cup but she is messier with that.

What do their meals look like each day? Breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack are at daycare and she gets the same food as my 3 year old. Weekends and weeknight dinner she eats what we have. Sometimes I still give her a pouch or applesauce too if she is more interested in throwing her food on the ground than eating it.

Any favorite foods? Is everything an answer? She will pretty much eat anything right now. My oldest was like this too until she was 2 and now she is pretty picky. She told me the other day that her tummy hurt because we made her eat "real food" and it would feel better if we just let her eat snacks. Haha

What do you do for snacks? Goldfish, applesauce, crackers, cereal mostly because we have those on hand for DD1. Baby only has 7 teeth so it's harder for her to eat apples, carrots, etc. like DD1.

[cake]

How many ounces of milk/formula are they getting?
He still has 4 bottles a day, 5oz each. We are gradually mixing the formula with whole milk, he’s about half and half right now. I’m hoping to be done formula by the end of the week. He turned one about a week ago.

What kind of cup are they drinking out of?
He has a sippy cup (either 360 or regular sippy) of water with all meals. He’s not very good at using it on his own, so we are still using a bottle for his formula/milk. I want to really push the sippy cup once we’ve switched completely to milk.

What do their meals look like each day?
He gets two snacks and lunch at daycare everyday. Dinner is pretty late because we work late, normally around 6:30. But he seems fine with that so far. Dinner is typically whatever we are eating or left overs from the day before if I work extra late. If he didn’t eat well at daycare and won’t eat what I offer, I’ll give him a pouch.

Any favorite foods?
It changes day to day. One day he’ll love something and the next he won’t. My husband and I really like spicy food and I’ve been shocked at the amount of heat he will eat. Like jalapeño cheese, and extra spicy paella, etc. So that’s been great.

What do you do for snacks?
Mini bagels, cheese, puffs, yogurt bites, peanut butter on a banana, Greek yogurt, apple sauce. He currently doesn’t love fruit but I hope to push that this summer when I get raspberries and strawberries from my parents’ garden.

[marygracerich]

I have a Dec 27th baby too so he is one of the older ones.

He gets two cups of milk a day. I don’t measure anymore. It’s a little more than half a sippy cup. He gets one in the morning around 6:45 or 7am and one in the evening around 6:15pm.

He is drinking from a 360 (I have the NUK brand) or a munchkin sippy cup with the bite proof tops. He sucks at straws still. (No pun intended)

He gets 3 regular meals a day. For breakfast he gets either eggs, pancakes, waffles, muffins, bagels or whatever I am having. For lunch he gets a sandwich, or leftovers from dinner the night before. For dinner he eats what we eat. He gets snacks whenever he seems hungry between meals. Usually it’s Cheerios or fruit.

He seems to really love peas. He likes most meats and chicken. He doesn’t love potatoes which I don’t understand. 😂 He isn’t super picky but he is definitely pickier than G was at this age.

[thunderenterprise]

How many ounces of milk/formula are they getting?
I have honestly no idea. She's refusing bottles now and isn't really loving WCM yet, but she still nurses in the evening and buffets all night because she's a boob addict that takes sleep as a personal affront to her happiness.


What kind of cup are they drinking out of?
360 cups at meal time and a hydroflask water bottle between meals.


What do their meals look like each day?
Usually yogurt or a oatmeal like thing for breakfast, then she eats what we eat for dinner and leftovers for lunch the next day.


Any favorite foods?
She annihilates almost everything we put in front of her, but string cheese, mac & cheese, avocado and yogurt are always pretty safe bets.


What do you do for snacks? Cereal, fruit, string cheese, puffs. Easy convenient things to throw at her depending on if we're home or out and about.

[Deleted]

J turned 1 on the 23rd of this month. We do about 24 ounces a day, 50/50 formula and whole milk.

We are trying to transition to sippys for meals. She throws them though and I have very little tolerance for messes 😂🙈

She gets whatever we are eating for meals.

She loves berries, chicken, ham, applesauce, and cheese. Oh, and she devoured lasagna last night!

We do berries or cheese sticks for snacks. Sometimes I'll heat up frozen veggie mix (peas, corn, carrots) for her.

[watermelonseed]

T will be 1 on 2/11

Not sure on ounces. She boycotted bottles about 1.5 months ago. She has been on whole milk for at least 3 weeks. We go through approximately 4 gallons of milk a week as a family of four with 2.5 yr old and an almost one year sooooo not worried about it🐮

Munchkin straw sippy cups

The kids eat what we eat. 3 meals and snacks throughout the day. We very rarely make special “kid” meals. Both my girls aren’t picky at all.

She hasn’t met a food item she doesn’t like yet. 😂

Go to snacks are veggie straws, fruit, crackers, raisins, cheese, pouches, pepperoni.

[Queen Mamadala]

Teddy will be 12 months on 2/4.

How many ounces of milk/formula are they getting? He nurses 8+ times a day.

What kind of cup are they drinking out of? Straw sippy.

What do their meals look like each day? He doesn't eat "meals." I offer food from my plate. He grazes and takes bites for as long as he's interested. I've never done eating schedules or routines. My babies still nursed a lot until 15+ months old when their appetites for small meals developed a bit more.

Any favorite foods? Rice, salmon, eggs, peanut butter, fonio, sweet potatoes, riced cauliflower, avocado, cottage cheese, beans, peas.

What do you do for snacks? No designated snacks. If he's interested, he tries what we eat, or he nurses.

[pinkcat]

DS is 11.5 months. He is still getting 4 bottles a day, about 6 oz each. However, this week we've been doing at least 1 of these in a sippy cup each day and he is doing well with that. Over the next few weeks we'll move to 3 of them in a sippy cup and start transitioning to WCM. I'm not ready to give up the night time bottle yet though so I think we'll keep that for a bit longer!

He normally eats oatmeal and an egg or fruit for breakfast, a Gerber pick me ups meal or leftovers for lunch, and then some version of whatever we have for dinner. LFor snacks it's usually yogurt or some type of veggie/fruit. Plus lots of puffs- he looooves puffs!

His favorite foods are bananas, eggs, ground turkey or beef, and carrots and green beans. There isn't much he doesn't like yet- so far only peanut butter when we mix it in his oatmeal.

He loves food so much so watching him eat is always fun!

[easternshoregirl]

Wow I feel like we are an outlier on the milk/bottles. V will be a year old on 2/6 and she's really only taking about 4 oz from a bottle during the day at day care, which is a couple of oz of breast milk mixed with almond milk at this point. She drinks water from a sippy with meals and has really been cutting back on daytime nursing sessions, as much as I try to offer. The only time she consistently nurses "well" is during MOTN, which is typically once per night I'd say. I'm wondering if this is temporary or her just deciding she's done with a lot of nursing. It's so different than DS was, so it is weird for me I guess.

She eats meals when we do and same for snacks. The only things she doesn't eat are foods she's not allowed to have yet, like sweets, chips, popcorn, etc. Basically just choking hazards. She loves fruit! Kiwi, banana, papaya, berries, pineapple, oranges, all of it. And veggies too, she's into broccoli and zucchini and butternut squash. Pasta and rice, yes please. Oh, we just reintroduced dairy (again) and it seems to be OK this time! So she's getting her first taste of cheese and other dairy products too.

[sunfrogger]

Liv is the youngest JF18 baby. She just turned 11mo yesterday.

We're on 3 bottles at daycare and nursing in demand at home. Of her bottles 3oz is breastmilk and 1oz is WCM as of this week. This schedule of weaning the bottles to WCM has her starting full WCM sippies at 4 days shy of 1yo so I might stretch it just a tad. In about a week I'll flip the bottles to straw sippies so it's not too much change at once. At school they're only warming them a little because we would like her to drink the straight WCM cold if possible. Once there's no breastmilk we will definitely be done with bottles.

Liv eats a lot. She loves 🍕. She eats 3 meals and 2-3 snacks. Breakfast she won’t eat eggs in any form but she’ll eat fruit, pancakes, waffles, bacon. Lunch is whatever school has. She’s eaten pbj, deli meat & and grilled cheese at home. At dinner she gets whatever we have. Snacks are fruit, string cheese, goldfish, applesauce.

[jessijean]

I'll try to fill this out later but it sounds like we are way over doing the milk. He gets a 8oz bottle at both naps and bed time. Sometimes a bit at meals in a sippy.

He is also in 97th % for height and weight so maybe that explains his intake.

He would drink more than 8oz if I gave him more

[marygracerich]

Jan 29, 2019 23:41:10 GMT -6 jessijean said:

I'll try to fill this out later but it sounds like we are way over doing the milk. He gets a 8oz bottle at both naps and bed time. Sometimes a bit at meals in a sippy.

He is also in 97th % for height and weight so maybe that explains his intake.

He would drink more than 8oz if I gave him more

My pedi said he wants the baby to eat more food and drink less milk. He says if babies fill up too much on milk and don’t eat enough. They can become iron deficient. I think as long as baby is eating well, I wouldn’t worry too much. Also consult your pedi because he/she may have a different opinion.

[thunderenterprise]

Jan 30, 2019 7:17:16 GMT -6 marygracerich said:

Jan 29, 2019 23:41:10 GMT -6 jessijean said:

I'll try to fill this out later but it sounds like we are way over doing the milk. He gets a 8oz bottle at both naps and bed time. Sometimes a bit at meals in a sippy.

He is also in 97th % for height and weight so maybe that explains his intake.

He would drink more than 8oz if I gave him more

My pedi said he wants the baby to eat more food and drink less milk. He says if babies fill up too much on milk and don’t eat enough. They can become iron deficient. I think as long as baby is eating well, I wouldn’t worry too much. Also consult your pedi because he/she may have a different opinion.

This is exactly what our pedi said as well.

[Deleted]

Jan 29, 2019 23:41:10 GMT -6 jessijean said:

I'll try to fill this out later but it sounds like we are way over doing the milk. He gets a 8oz bottle at both naps and bed time. Sometimes a bit at meals in a sippy.

He is also in 97th % for height and weight so maybe that explains his intake.

He would drink more than 8oz if I gave him more

I think our ped said to limit milk to about 20 oz. We are still on bottles too but I do the Precious Little Sleep blog method of watering them down, so we do about 6 oz total, half milk half water. We did that with DD2, she took a bottle to bed until about 18 months.

[jessijean]

Well this kid also eats nonstop at meals. I will try to switch it up with more water. But really if he just has bottles at nap/bedtime he's only at 24 oz.

Our dr hasn't mentioned anything.

[amesie]

How many ounces of milk/formula are they getting? We are down to 1-4oz bottle at nap and 1-6oz bottle at bedtime (she selfweaned off the breast a couple weeks ago)... we do a sippy of cows milk with all 3 meals, but I’m lucky if she drinks 4oz a day. She’s not a huge fan yet.

What kind of cup are they drinking out of? Just a plain ol’ gerber sippy cup with handles. She also likes to drink out of her big sisters straw water bottles or “big kid” sippy cups.

What do their meals look like each day?
Breakfast- fruit with mini pancakes, waffles, or eggs/toast.
Lunch- PB&J, grilled cheese, deli meats, pizza, chicken nuggets, pasta with butter, Mac and cheese
Dinner- whatever we are eating. She even had steak the other day and loved it. (She has 12 teeth... almost 16)

Any favorite foods? Water haha. I’ve never seen a kid so excited over a sippy cup of water. She also loves fruit

What do you do for snacks? Yogurt puffs are a big hit, veggie straws, gold fish, Cheerios, organic white cheddar Cheeto puffs, and anything I eat

[helloerrbody]

Now that most babies are almost 1 or 1, what does their feeding schedule look like?

How many ounces of milk/formula are they getting?
So Callum appears to be a milk monster just like his older brother was. I made the switch from donor milk/formula to whole milk last week, and he took to it immediately. That said, he is still drinking many bottles a day - probably 25ish oz total. Whoops. I know I have to get that down, but it's going to take some time. My older son drinks almond/coconut milk instead of cow's milk, and I'd eventually like that for baby as well, but it is low in calories and protein so we'll switch gradually in a few months.

What kind of cup are they drinking out of?
He is still drinking milk from a bottle but I hope to transition that soon since my older soon drank milk out of bottles til he was 2.5 years... He drinks water out of straw cups or any type of sippy really.

What do their meals look like each day?
Breakfast is almost always eggs and turkey sausage with a pouch and some banana. Sometimes a Dave's killer bagel with vegan coconut cream cheese or oatmeal, but usually eggs. Lunch and dinner are kinda whatever - turkey meat, shredded chicken, diced organic hot dogs, avocado, some type of fruit or veggie, a pouch, cheese, etc. He also is obsessed with veggie sticks so we do those for snacks sometimes.

Any favorite foods? Eggs and veggie straws! He really eats most anything, though!

What do you do for snacks? If it's not veggie straws it's graham crackers, Larabar pieces, a pouch, or fruit.