I'm still getting used to Kaylee eating
actual meals & not just relying on her
bottle but I feel like we're both getting
bored with what she eats.
For breakfast she usually has cheerios
& milk with me & occasionally
we'll make eggs, toast & pancakes..
But after she eats that she usually wants
a bottle right away..
Lunch lately since we need groceries bad
has been spaghettios & some mixed
veggies or leftover dinner from the night
before..
Then for dinner we all eat together &
she has whatever Shane & I are
having.
She snacks pretty much all day on fruit,
graham crackers, those gerber puffs &
applesauce.. & she'll drink water in
her sippy cup but nothing else..
What are some things you ladies feed your
little ones? Keep in mind she only has 5
teeth as of right now..
I'm having a problem though getting her to
eat the food to the point where she's full
& doesn't want the bottle... I don't
know if I'm not feeding her enough (she
usually eats until she seems full) or if
she's just plain not ready to go off the
bottle.. One of my friends has a 16 month
old daughter who is still on the bottle
& she keeps assuring me that it's fine
but for some reason I'm thinking it's good
to have them off it by the time they're
1?
& that brings up another issue.. We're
slowly making the transition from formula
to whole milk... I'd like her to be
drinking her milk out of her cup (which
goes back to my previous paragraph) but
she refuses to drink anything but ice
water from her cup. How did you guys
change from the bottle to the cup? &
what age? Like I said I don't know if I'm
doing something wrong or if she's just not
ready..
Opinions would be nice!
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OctoberBaby06
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Posted: 10-03-07 14:12pm
I posted at the wrong time, no one's
here!!
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rosejackson
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Posted: 10-03-07 14:27pm
at the moment william has 3 meals a day
with me. he has breakfast which usually
consists of a breakfast cereal and has
some juice in a cup, play time and then
goes to bed with some juice out of a
bottle (he doesnt like drinking out of
baby cups), then for lunch he usually has
either a sandwich or some cooked meals,
depending on what mood im in. today he had
chicken, potatoes and some veggies. again
he had juice out of a normal cup, playtime
and then juice for nap time. and dinner is
the same. he has a cooked meal, today he
had leftover chicken from lunch, potatoes
and veggies and afters. and when he goes
down for bed he has half a bottle of milk
or juice
i wouldnt worry that she is still on her
milk. she probably isnt ready to make that
transition. williams not long been
drinking out of a normal cup at feeding
times and we had to switch to normal cows
milk cos he was getting bad diarrhoa when
he had formula growing up milk.sorry its
so long hope it helps
im having a problem with jordynne
introducing normal food, the baby foods
gone otu the window she doesnt like being
fed by spoon, i try and give her
spaghettios but thts a no go , she can
hold a sippy cup but rarely drinks out of
it but she does sometimes. She stole
josephs ravioli and pigged out on it but
if i tried feeding it to her she would
push it away, shed rather make a mess of
things and do it herself, but she isnt one
until dec 25 anyways, joseph was alot
easier he was eating lil entrees at 9 mths
and stuff but he had a few more teeth then
jordynne at that stage, shes popping in
quite a few at the moment though! He hated
drinking milk out of a sippy cup at first
but once he didnt have a choice he figured
it out. She might just not want to give up
the bottle totally. At first we put milk
in josephs bottles and juice around 11mths
and slowly transitioned to only sippy cups
and he figured it out quite fast. jordynne
though can use a straw, she loves steeling
juice boxes but she sucks out more then
she can swallow and alot ends up down her
shirt so i dunno lol. I guess we got some
picky kids, at least shes eating real
food. Jordynnes soooo picky but she doesnt
have enough bottles during the day though
it seems and i try and give her all sorts
of table food and she just picks at it for
a min eats a tiny bit then is off doing
whatever. It seems soo much more
complicated with her then joseph, he went
to it easy but i guess he loves his food i
dont know. Id say just let her go at her
own pace , and when she is ready she will
do it.
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oh_mommy
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Posted: 10-03-07 17:31pm
well i havnt a clue really.. but for reese
we are getting rid of formula and giving
him whole milk in his bottle.. then once
hes more mobile and running thats probably
when i will try to make his baba go away
and invest i a couple more cups..he dosnt
like sippy cups so he uses those ones with
straws in them... have u tried using one
of those cups with milk?
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Bridget
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Posted: 10-03-07 18:09pm
i don't really know about any of your
questions because we're not there yet. i
do have some food suggestions though. keep
in mind that the number of teeth they have
doesn't really matter, they don't chew
with those front teeth anyway.
i'm a slacker and finn rarely gets
breakfast. when he does it's toast and
cheerios (dry) or a frozen waffle. when we
get the go-ahead for eggs i'll give him
scrambled eggs (when can they have eggs?
when they're 1?).
lunch is usually leftovers from dinner or
a sandwich (jam, jam and cream cheese,
turkey, grilled cheese). sometimes it's
just a frozen vegetable medley.
dinner is whatever we're having if it's
finn-friendly. if not, he'll have mac and
cheese, hotdog, ravioli, hamburger,
grilled cheese, vegetables, pasta, chicken
nuggets, etc.
they can pretty much eat whatever we eat,
aside from those certain baby no-no's
(honey, peanut butter, certain
seafoods...). there's very little that
finn doesn't get.
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OctoberBaby06
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Posted: 10-03-07 18:48pm
Thanks all of you, it's nice to hear what
other people feed their little ones so I
know I'm not completely way off with what
we're doing!
I'm going to look for those cups with the
straws, I think I know what ones you're
talking about. Maybe they'll work a little
easier.
I guess my main problem is I don't really
know what age to start doing & getting
rid of certain things. There's still so
much I need to learn about being a Mama!
B, we just recently (within the last
month) started giving Kaylee eggs. I
talked to her doc about it all first &
he said it was fine to give it a shot
& she absolutely LOVES them (scrambled
that is, don't know about any other way
yet).. Does Finn do okay with hotdogs?
I've heard so many horror stories about
babies gagging on hotdogs I've just
completely steered away from them. I've
been wanting to see if she likes them
though. What's the age that it's alright
to try peanut butter?
Thanks again so much ladies, I know I
might sound like an fool asking questions
like these but thanks for helping!
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Bridget
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Posted: 10-03-07 18:59pm
he *loves* hotdogs! that's what he gets
off the kids menu if we go out to dinner.
i slice it up into small slices and then i
quarter those pieces, so there's nothing
he could choke on.
i think peanut butter is 2. i'm definitely
waiting on that one because a peanut
allergy would suck.
i forgot to mention, his snacks are
usually graham crackers or animal crackers
with water.
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OctoberBaby06
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Posted: 10-03-07 19:06pm
Hmm well maybe I'll make some hotdogs
tomorrow & let Kaylee try something
new!
Peanut butter is a big one that worries
me. Shane is allergic to nuts, his throat
swells & everything so I'm going to
keep Kaylee away from that stuff for a
long long long long time.
Kaylee *loves* graham crackers, she's not
so big on animal crackers yet but we tried
those gerber spinwheel cookies & she
loved them, but thought she had to shove
the whole thing in her mouth!
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Posted: 10-03-07 21:51pm
For the last 2 months we've been offering
her formula in her sippy cup with every
meal. When she loses interest we pour it
in a bottle and bottle feed her. She
usually drinks her breakfast and dinner
formula from a sippy cup and we have to
give her lunch formula 1/2 from a sippy
and 1/2 from a bottle. At night she
always gets a bottle before bed. She's
pretty much almost off the bottle. When
she hits 12 months (1 month away) I'm
getting rid of the bottle except for
before bed b/c it's part of her routine.
She eats what we eat.
A typical day:
Breakfast: favorite meal to feed her b/c
she's most hungry at this time
Waffle and/or sausage biscuit
Lunch: leftovers, ravioli, sandwich, hot
dog
Dinner: Cooked meal (porkchops, chicken
(favorite), roast, or hamburgers with
veggies) If I don't cook she gets hot dog
or raviolies or a graduates dinner
She snacks sometimes on ritz crackers,
animal crackers, popsicles, etc. with
diluted juice.
Bottle to cup will be an easy transistion
for us since she's almost there. She
loves her cup.
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Sandbox Party
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Posted: 10-03-07 22:33pm
my kids vary day to day.. but for most of
what they switch between...
Breakfast: Mixed fruit, toast with
jelly, eggs and pancakes, cereal, banana
bread, waffles, and occasionally the hot
pocket breakfast thingys.
Lunch: Spaghetti-o's, Spaghetti and
meatballs, mac-n-cheese, hotdogs, turkey
sandwich, vegetarian chili, chicken or
turkey nuggets, pizza, grilled cheese..
Dinner: whatever we're eating.
Jacob gets in his moods when he only wants
nuggets and fries from mcdonalds, so he
eats that prolly once a week.
Drinks: kool-aid, lots of ice
water, juice, Jacob drinks chocolate milk
like its going out of style, he wont drink
it without flavoring, Caty cant becuz shes
lactose intolerant.. they NEVER get soda
with caffeine and when they do get soda
its verrrrry rare, and something like
Squirt or Sprite.
Snacks: teddy grahams, crackers,
fruit, cheeto's, pringles, flavored rice
cakes. I dont give them stuff like snack
cakes and crap like that.
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rosejackson
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Posted: 10-04-07 02:21am
BridgetHeartsFinn
wrote:
he *loves* hotdogs! that's
what he gets off the kids menu if we go
out to dinner. i slice it up into small
slices and then i quarter those pieces, so
there's nothing he could choke on.
i think peanut butter is 2. i'm definitely
waiting on that one because a peanut
allergy would suck.
i forgot to mention, his snacks are
usually graham crackers or animal crackers
with water.
william loves his hotdogs too! well he
loves most of his food anyway, hes
generally not fussed as long as its
edible! he loves my cooking
