My son is 10 months old and I wanted to know an average feeding schedule moms are using to see if I am doing it right? He is also 24pounds so quite a big boy. Right now we wake him at 7am and give him an 8oz bottle and at 8am give him stage 3 fruit or mashed fruit with cereal mixed in. At 11am he has between 6-8oz bottle only and a little later a baby organic yogurt. At 3pm another 80z bottle then stage 3 veggie jar , and 4pm some organic puffs to snack on. And finally 7pm another full 8 0z bottle followed by a stage 3 meat and veggie . Sometimes at dinner I will cut up in small pieces some watermelon and cheese and he snacks on that if he seems hungry. The daycare tells me he does not usually finish all of his bottles but downs the food. I am very careful with giving my kids organic as much as possible which is why I still use the stage 3 baby organic baby foods since I know he is at least getting the fruit and veggies he needs as it is less expensive for me to do that in the baby food form. Any advice would be great. Thanks to all who reply
Seems to me he is getting enough! lol My DD will be 10 months tomorrow. To be honest, I don't have her on a strict schedule. I feed her when she is hungry or when we are eating a meal. She usually has a yogurt every day, container of applesauce, maybe a jar of food, Cheerios, puffs, usually whatever we are eating plus about 32 ounces of formula...all in 24 hours.
If he seems to be hungry, give him some more. If not, he is fine.
When my son was about 9 or 10 months I started putting him on more of a toddler schedule...meaning 3 meals and 2 snacks. My son got 3 6-8 oz sippy's of milk a day one with each meal and then two small snacks plus something before bed. My son too is very big for his age About 30" and 25lbs at 9 months...
Anyway so he'd have breakfast oatmeal with fruit and yogurt mixed in with a 6-8 oz sippy at about 7am. Then a snack of a piece of cheese or crackers at about 10am. Then lunch some type of veggie medly (I made my own frozen cubes of whatever) with 6-8 oz of milk. A snack after the afternoon nap at about 3pm. Dinner including milk at 5pm and then about 3oz of milk before bed at 7pm.
My son is 14 months now so we have changed things a bit but he pretty much fell right into this shedule and I felt like it made it easier to combine milk and meals than to have them seperately as I had been doing before.
Good luck!
I have three children (5, 3, and almost 1 year)....it seemed like all three were more interested in food than milk at that age. They had all given up milk at that late afternoon time. I would try to cut that one if you feel like something needs to be cut, but if you find that he eats and drinks well at all those times with you, then it may be that he is too distracted at daycare to finish bottles and would rather play. My 1 year old (when he was your son's age) did milk in the am, breakfast (millet and banana for example), nap, snack, milk a little later with lunch (maybe around 11:00-12:00), nap, snack (those puffs or cut up fruit or yogurt), and then dinner and milk right before bed (he goes to bed at 7 or 7:30 so that may be different than your son). I also made his food (organic fruits, veggies, eggs from farm, etc)--and still do because he still has no teeth!--and froze it because it was so much cheaper than jarred organic baby food. You can cut it up or mash it to whatever consistency your son needs. If you get the Super Baby Food book (I think the author's name is Ruth Karon but can't remember for sure) it will give you ideas but it is all basically steam, cut or mash, and freeze (trays or ice cube trays and then put in bags). It also has good snack ideas. It is difficult to implement all her suggestions--at least for me, but I work and have three small children hopping around--but it will give you a good foundation to build on!
Ours is pretty similar to yours. We have (4) 6 oz bottles and in between she eats breakfast - cereal with 1/2 fruit, lunch - a stage 2 jar, dinner - 1/2 stage 2 jar plus whatever we're eating diced into finger food.
It's good to see what others are eating because my girl is 10 mo, 27 lbs and must've inherited my slow metabolism.
