What does a typical day look like for your 9 month old

[Sarah125]

This is today's menu :

Breakfast - shredded wheat with banana slices

Lunch - homemade lentil soup with a carrot and courgette muffin followed by mango chunks and yoghurt

Tea - macaroni cheese with broccoli, chicken and tomato.

She eats most of what she's offered but throws a wee bit down for the dog!

I just worry it's not enough as she's very mobile. Do you offer snacks or supper? I don't offer her snacks often as I don't have them (well Apart from chocolate sometimes when she naps ) but she always takes them so don't know if I should offer them regularly?

She usually has about 4 breastfeeds in the day, less if we are busy. She won't feed if we're out really.

 

[MindUtopia]

I would say that was similar to what my daughter was eating at 9 months, though she was only just starting to pick up on the amounts and actually eat for the sake of it rather than just exploring. She was also having 4 milk feeds (formula) a day, but stopped wanting a feed during the night around that time. It looked something like this:

8am - milk
9am - breakfast of weetabix in milk, banana pieces
12pm - lunch of cheese on toast, peas
1pm - milk
4pm - small amount of milk (eventually this became a snack around 11 months)
5pm - dinner of roast chicken, jacket potato, yogurt with fruit
7pm - bedtime milk


You certainly could add in a snack in the afternoon or morning if you think she'd be happy with it. The challenge I had initially (and still have sometimes) is that sometimes the snack was enough that she wasn't hungry at the next meal. But if her appetite is good, you may not have any issues, you might just see her drop a feed during the day instead. We do oatcakes, rice cakes, banana, clementine, yogurt or a homemade muffin or biscuit for snack.

 

[Sarah125]

Thank you. Glad to know your daughter had a similar amount. Sometimes I think Sophie would just keep eating all day if I let her so it's hard to know how much to offer!

The snack ideas are brilliant too! I think I'll wait another month or so then start introducing a regular snack as I don't want her dropping a milk feed just yet.

Thanks for the advice

 

[catty]

My boy would eat and eat, iv yet to find something he doesnt like.

today he had-
Breakfast- bran flakes and cows milk, yoghurt and half a banana

Lunch - cheese toastie (only half of a half) a kiwi, 3 chunks of watermelon and a little ricecake

dinner- he will have fish and brocolli in a cheesy sauce, natural yoghurt with chunks of apple through it and a breadstick.

snack wise I give him breadsticks, ricecakes, any type of fruit, yoghurt - hed maybe have 2 of these snacks in a day

he also has 3 bottles of milk so about 20oz