Baby Food

Question: How does your 6 month old babies food schedule look like?

(Posted by: Mommy! on 2009-08-21 07:33:39)

Posted by: Miguels mommy <3 on 2009-08-21, 07:46:31

Bottle 7am bottle 10am 1030-cereal/ fruit about 2tbsp each bottle 1pm 130-vegetable 1-2tbsp bottle 4pm bottle 7pm meat/ veg-1tbsp, fruit -1-2 tbsp bottle 10 pm all bottles are 5-6 oz ...bottle at 10pm is 8oz i started ceral at 4m and purees at 4.5 veg...and fruits at 5...now i have started meats at 6m..

Posted by: Pippin on 2009-08-21, 07:50:08

At this age she was breastfed on demand, and getting a small amount of solid food once or twice a day in no particular pattern. (Whenever it was convenient to offer and she seemed like she might be interested.)

Posted by: crunchy hannah on 2009-08-21, 07:51:17

I breast feed on demand -- I feed him solids once a day or once every other day at night time for dinner.

Posted by: Teeny Beeny on 2009-08-21, 08:05:35

Have you looked into BLW? Since you have such a long time before Harley's on solids, why not look into it now?'s skipping purees and letting baby feed himself table foods. It's thought to be better for the child to let him explore food and eat on his terms. Just a thought! If you go with purees, there's really no need for a schedule. Fruits, veggies, cereal-It's all the same nutritionally. Baby will eating so little that it's not like it's a benefit to make sure he's getting a fruit at one time, a veggie later, cereal, and meat. If you go with jar food, just give him a jar of whatever whenever you please or when he seems really hungry.

Posted by: Suzy Homemaker goes to college on 2009-08-21, 08:32:11

He's 6 months old this week- been on solid foods for three weeks, using sippy cup for two months three meals a day: breakfast @ 8am, lunch @ 1pm, dinner @ 6pm he gets one tablespoon of food per meal, though he usually only eats half of it So far the foods he eats are sweet potatoes, avacado, and peas We make his baby food from fresh vegetables and fruits, we never puree anything, just mash it or dice it. When we go out for the day, we don't want to mess up his solid food schedule so I also make baby cookies (I altered a teething biscuit recipe to make them from watered down apple juice, rice cereal, and flour). Baby cookies make less mess than mashed vegetables and he enjoys feeding himself the cookies so they are easier to give him when out and about. Since he's teething right now, we let him have frozen carrot sticks to chew on anytime he wants- even if its not meal time. The hard cold stuff helps with the pain, and he likes them better than traditional teething toys. still gets most of his nutrition from bottles, we bottle fed on demand between solids (weaned off breastfeeding last month)