Is this enough for almost 8 month old

[cupcaker]

Hi everyone,

I got really confident with the whole weaning thing but am starting to wibble again. If you have the time please can you check out the below for me!


For breakfast he will eat a small/child size yoghurt 50g, a fruit pot (usually a home blended one) that's about 100g and a baby ceareal/porridge, around 2/3 tablespoons. When I'm not at work and have more time I attempt toast soldiers but not a great deal goes in.

Lunch is always a homemade puree of a decent meal. Like beef/chicken casserole, pasta with cheese sauce etc. As I make my own, I fill up the tesco pots I have and they say 2oz on.

He will maybe eat a full 2oz once but absolute max will be two pots at 4oz, maybe one pot of casserole and one pot of mashed potatoes. I give him sticks of cheese which he will eat (hard to judge what goes in) and other finger foods like baby puffs and cucumber at this meal too (again hard to see just how much). He will eat another yoghurt and some fruit.


Dinner is the same as lunch usually, but rather than yoghurt he will have more of a pudding, usually a jar pudding of around half a jar.


I am aiming to give 20oz milk a day. Sometimes this is easier than other times. He might have an ounce or two or water.

He is on a highish percentile, steadily around the 75th I think. But started out on 25th.

I had no concern until I googled (idiot) and saw loads of posts about similar aged babies eating several baby jars a day. I only use jars for 'puddings' I'd rather give home made pastas and casseroles but worry he doesn't take enough. He doesnt grimace at the savory meals and does eat them, but there is a clear difference in enthusiam for sweet things like the yoghurts, fruit or puddings.


It is the clinic tomorrow (so weigh in) and although the HV never shows conern about his weight (it used to be mammoth each week but has slowed since weaning) I am concerned... as I don't know 'how much' he SHOULD be gaining now. I know people say be lead by your baby but I also want to ensure he does gain properly.

 

[baileybubs]

Hi there,

I don't have any advice on whether that's enough except to say it sounds very similar to my dd and she's almost 8 months. We are doing BLW with mainly finger foods but occasionally she had porridge or yoghurt something like that which I spoon feed her (with her "help" lol). From what she eats I can never be sure how much actually goes in but this is an average day;

Breakfast - shredded wheat soaked in milk, 2 strawberries and an apricot

Lunch - potato waffle chopped with beans then a banana

Tea - tuna flakes, 6 carrot batons, 2 broccoli florets and 3 new potatoes halved
Sometimes followed by a yoghurt or fruit purée and egg custard/rice pudding (Heinz)

As well as this she still has bottles 4 times a day in which she drinks about 4-7oz (morning and bedtime she tends to drink more than the 2 during the day).

There's always bits of her food that goes on the floor (hoovered up by the dog!) and loads squished on her chair so she's probably only getting half of it inside her but I feel like she's getting enough. I think each baby just learns and increases their eating at their own rate.
I also read somewhere that up until 1 year old they should still be getting most of their nutrition from milk (breast or formula) and other food is just for learning and fun!

Hope that helps!

 

[cupcaker]

Thanks!! We didn't get to the clinic in the end but due to teething and a bit of a cold I didn't want to see a crappy weightgain and panic (plus he happened to fall asleep right at the time we go) things seem worse this week. He will pick bits off his tray to attempt to eat (like you a lot seems to get swept up) but he is sooo tight lipped over a spoon. If I can con it into his mouth he doesn't really grimace like he dislikes it, but what a hassle with stuff he once used to take much more easily!

 

[baileybubs]

Have you tried changing the spoon? Emilia's are all really bright colours that change when warm (not that they ever have food that's warm enough on them to change the colour lol) and she immediately grabs it and puts it in her mouth.

 

[cupcaker]

Idid notice a *slight* change in this area actually I swapped a spoon half way through tonight intentionally but he soon cottoned on again. If he wretched and grimaced at the meal, then ok he hates it, but he doesnt really. Still having the same disheartening changebin enthusiasm though whrn it's a sweeter product off a spoon (fruit, yoghurt, pudding) great as it's getting something in him but I don't want him getting a sweet tooth of expecting sweet things alk the time it's difficult!

 

[sillysapling]

My kiddo just came off an almost week-long "weaning strike". Would not eat anything. Purees- I tried about 4 different flavors over the course of the week, mostly ones I KNOW he likes. We also tried yogurt spoon-fed. He wouldn't open his mouth. When I tried to sneak it in, in case he just didn't realize there was food, he wouldn't eat it. We tried every spoon we own, grown up spoons when he grabbed for our spoons when we ate while ignoring his own, etc. We tried at different times of day, we tried while we were eating, etc. He wouldn't eat finger food, the closest he'd come is teething on celery sticks and raw baby carrots. He wouldn't eat ANYTHING that's not formula- water, fruit juice, cooled chamomile tea, anything.

He's been constipated and also has a cold- I think that's why. Today he finally decided to eat again (possibly because, after we spent all damn day cooking, he got that it would be a good idea to humor us and at least take a few bites), although he still didn't eat loads.

We just keep giving as much formula as he wants. I'd love for him to take to solids- but it's not happening. I'm not okay with forcing the matter. It's more important to me that he learn it's okay to stop eating if he doesn't want to eat than it is that he learn to eat solids. I would literally have to pry his jaw open to get him to eat when he doesn't want to- it would be awful, likely end in him choking and screaming and possibly make him even less willing to eat in the future.

I'm just praying he'll be ready to eat more soon.