How many ounces of solids does a 9 month old normally eat a day?
I can't really give you an amount. However our 9 month old is very independent and gets aggitated if I try to feed him (he has stopped eating baby food period), so most of the food he eats are solids (or what ever we eat, just in his size.) All 3 of our kids were that way. He eats everything I put infront of him. Not sure if this will help or not. :)
It varies from child to child. Solids are supposed to be for flavor and texture exporation more than nutrition for the first year, so don't worry if it doesn't seem like much. You decide what, they decide how much!
DD (8 mos) normally eats 3 containers/day - they're 3.5oz each, so 10.5 total.
Although she's just been through a growth spurt where she was eating 2 containers per sitting, so 21 during that time!
It's hard to say in ounces how much my daughter eats solids-wise. But she usually eats about a half of a tub/jar of baby food and a container of the YoBaby yogurt mid-morning. Then in the evening she has 1 to 1 1/2 jars. In her bottle before bed, I add two scoops of rice cereal. I used to feed her solids more than this, like 3-4 times a day. But she started drinking less at bottle time, so I backed off on the food. I think as long as your baby gets the recommended amount of formula/breastmilk, it doesn't really matter how much they eat when it's time for solids. It's mainly just to get them used to eating real food anyway, not really for nutrition. My daughter varies with the amount of solids from day to day, and I just go along with it. But I do have to watch her ounces of formula, and back off of solids from time to time. It's tough to get her to meet the 24 ounce minimum when she's eating alot. Good luck!
