How much formula does your 8mnth old take?

sir_monster

Why are you bothering with jars or purees at 8 months? Can you not just do finger foods which is very mse as they can eat the same as you, for example t for breakfast has shredded wheat, strawberries and a bit of scrambled egg. I am bf so difficult to tell but in a similar thing he usually only takes one boob now, then breakfast an hour or so after - so you could do half a bottle, then breakfast?

mich13x

My eight month old daughters routine is as follows...

Up at 6am, takes 6 ounce bottle.
Breakfast 8.30, she has porridge or a baby jar breakfast followed by a rusk.
10.30am she has an hour long nap.
11.30am another 6 ounce bottle.
1pm Lunch, she has half of a 7+ food jar and a little stars yogurt.
3pm I give her a snack, normally another rusk, or organix crisps.
5.15pm For dinner a full 7+ jar sometimes followed by pudding if shes looking for it.
6.30pm 6ounce bottle and then bed. She sleeps through until 6am.

She seems to be quite happy with this routine just now so ill stick to it until it needs tweaking again, i only recently moved her from 4 bottles a day to 3 and she coped fine.

MERFE

Crumbs if you want to give him milk first thing do, my middle child is nearly 5 and he still has a glass of milk as soon as he wakes up in the morning. I really wouldn't worry, maybe try him with finger foods regularly so he gets more used to lumpy things but otherwise sounds like you're doing fine. Bob is quite chunky, has more milk than recommended as well as breakfast lunch and dinner - they thin out later on when they run about and I know I'm not weaning him on chocolate buttons like SIL did her little one so it can't be all bad.

pigpen

sir_monster wrote: »

Why are you bothering with jars or purees at 8 months? Can you not just do finger foods which is very mse as they can eat the same as you, for example t for breakfast has shredded wheat, strawberries and a bit of scrambled egg. I am bf so difficult to tell but in a similar thing he usually only takes one boob now, then breakfast an hour or so after - so you could do half a bottle, then breakfast?

I did BLW with my older ones but Squeak simply didn't have the hand to mouth coordination to get food in, she simply could not have satisfied her hunger so had to be spoonfed slops..

BLW is great but not always possible.

She was a week short of 9 months before being reliable at getting food from her tray to her mouth and swallow it.. she would have slop and then be given finger food to encourage her to learn.. Starving her for 4.5 months because I wanted to do BLW was not practical nor would she have benefitted in any way.

valk_scot

Cut down the amount of milk in the bottles very slowly till he is getting the "correct" amount? He's not going to notice a reduction of half an ounce per week tbh and as he grows he'll need more food anyway so if you don't give him more milk, he'll still be eating proportionally more solids. Just keep "leaning" on him to eat more solids...offer them first every time, but don't make an issue about the milk if he wants it. Just give him a tiny bit less.

As to jars, they're useful but in the long term it makes it harder to get him eating the same as you. So if what you're having is suitable always use some of that as his meal, mashed or pureed up, to get him used to how your cooking tastes. Save the jars for when your food isn't suitable.

I've had three kids, breast fed them all and have to say one of the great advantages of BF is that the HV can't focus on the number of ounces in the bottles. If you've got a one-size-fits-all HV you're doomed tbh..most of what you do will be wrong so you might as well get used to only listening to her with half an ear. This is your first child yes? Trust me by your third what she's telling you now will be out of date anyway but by then you'll have the confidence to do what suits you and your routine, within general guidelines rather than absolute rules, pah.

ClareEmily

My baby is now 7 and a half months old and he has reduced the amount of milk he takes alot, although BF-ing so no clue how much he takes, just knows he is on breast for hardly any time at all and has dropped at least two feeds during the day.

His routine:
7am wakes up quick milk feed
8am Breekie - Porridge - now having ready break (mix with banana, apple or pear) or wheatabix
Midday - Lunch of mainly finger foods and water (he now eats cheese, raw apple, banana, bread, toast with jam/cream cheese, rusks, cucumber, hard boiled egg, strawberries, yoghurt, custard, homemade rice pud.
5pm - Tea - pasta stars with veg mixed with tomatoes and cheese or salmon with carrots and sweet potatoes, or cauliflower cheese, Spinach cooked with sweet potato and peas, or middle of a jacket spud mixed with veg.

If there is anything he isn't keen on ie veg I mix with yoghurt, least he gets the nutrients somehow

He is your baby you know your baby best if he is happy and healthy then don't worry and sounds like he loves his milk.

MX5huggy

freddie wrote: »

My LO is 12 mths and would easily drink 28-30 ozs of milk a day.

Wouldnt be giving them readybreak or petit filous yet either, both are high in sugar and weetabix/shreaded wheat and plain natural yogurt are much better.

Ready break is just oats, no added sugar.

Alias_Omega

9 Months old, I give it weetabix and cows milk. The wife makes a bottle of formula milk and some special breakfast. Baby is happy to drink the milk from the spoon, must taste nice.

Were now into the phase of it eating toast, biscuits, chocolate, sweets, crisps, plus drinking juice and anything else placed in its path.

Has a 8oz bottle of milk for bed, which it only drinks what it wants to drink..

onlyroz

Can't you give a small bottle first thing (eg 4-5 oz) followed by some banana or weetabix?

osian

Can't remember exactly as my daughter is 2.5yrs now, but I know at 8 months she was definitely on more than two full (well 8oz) bottles a day. I just found that the ones in the middle she naturally dropped over time. She just drank less and less of it and wasn't interested. So I decided not to give it to her anymore.

Just listen to your baby's signs and your instincts.