ok, i'm still totally clueless on how much
food finn should be eating and i'm
terrified of overfeeding him. please tell
me if you think this is too much...
3 tablespoons of cereal for breakfast
3 tablespoons of cereal mixed with 1/2 jar
fruit for lunch
1 jar of veg and 1/2 jar of fruit for
dinner
he also gets 4 6oz bottles throughout the
day.
we actually haven't started breakfast yet,
i was just planning on doing that soon.
right now he only gets what i listed for
lunch and dinner.
what do you think?
edit: i don't know if this matters but
he'll be 6 months on may 3rd.
i think way too many people overanalyze
this and worry unnecessarily. IMO, ditch
the baby food and fill his tray with
whatever youre eating (steamed broccoli,
steamed carrots, whole wheat crackers,
banana, apple chunks) he will eat as much
solids as he needs. i really love the baby
led approach to eating solids.
this is just my 2 cents.
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Posted: 04-23-07 22:02pm
Great website, Natalia! I will ditch the
baby food with this baby. I feel baby food
is way too overpriced as it is anyways. I
guess I should start eating even better.
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Bridget
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Posted: 04-24-07 07:13am
thanks nat!
i think i might just finish off what baby
food we have and then just start giving
him our food. i've actually been giving
him things from our meals at dinner
(broccoli and asparagus) but he mostly
plays with it and makes funny faces,
probably because he's not used to food
with texture.
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jessesgirl
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Posted: 04-24-07 07:23am
Ava gets:
breakfast:oatmeal (don't know how much, I
never measured) and 1/2 container of fruit
(I buy the container of gerber, not the
jars) and 6 oz bottle
lunch: 1/2 container of veggie and 6 oz
bottle
snack: 1/2 container of fruit, 6 oz
bottle
dinner: 1/2 container of veggie, bottle to
wash it down
right after that she gets a bath and a
full 6 oz bottle to go to sleep
she eats every 3 hours, she's not gaining
weight any quicker than before, so i'm
assuming i'm not overfeeding her
I'm not ready of comfortable with feeding
her our food yet. I don't cook very often
b/c of the way Jesse works. I rather he
stick with the baby food for now, it's
easier for me and she loves it. I bought
a few of each of the Stage 2 foods. I'm
waiting until her 6 month birthday
though.
Does anyone know if you have to test the
stage 2 foods like we did the stage 1? It
might be a silly question.
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Bridget
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Posted: 04-24-07 07:33am
jessesgirl
wrote:
Does anyone know if you have to test the
stage 2 foods like we did the stage 1? It
might be a silly
question.
do they have different varieties than the
stage 1? if so, then yes.
honestly, i didn't really test anything. i
found out after we'd already started
solids that you're supposed to test things
for 3-5 days and i'd only been doing 2.
also, nobody in either of our families has
any food allergies so after i found out
i'd been "testing" them for too little
time i just gave up and started giving him
whatever. he had such a limited diet that
if there had been a problem it wouldn't
have been hard to figure out the cause.
i cook every night and i think we eat well
enough that he can get by on our food. we
always have a vegetable on the side, as
well as noodles or rice or potatoes
(mashed or baked).
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jessesgirl
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Posted: 04-25-07 07:08am
We don't ever eat rice or potatoes, but we
do eat veggies. I might cook a total of
12 nights out of a month.
There's a few fruits that are different
and there's meats. The veggies are the
same and some fruits are the same.
We're testing applesauce for a few days
and starting stage 2 the weekend that she
turns 6 months.
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Posted: 04-25-07 07:21am
I buy my son organic frozen baby food from
"mother hen" i ditched the jars.
He actually enjoys the veggies now . There
are no preservatives and its fresh .
I would start giving him veggies from
lunch as well.
