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asked by: OctoberBaby06 on October 3rd, 2007

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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!

Replies(11)

OctoberBaby06

replied on October 3rd, 2007

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I posted at the wrong time, no one's here!!

rosejackson

replied on October 3rd, 2007

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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

tinkinpink84

replied on October 3rd, 2007

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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.

oh_mommy

replied on October 3rd, 2007

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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?

Bridget

replied on October 3rd, 2007

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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.

OctoberBaby06

replied on October 3rd, 2007

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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!

Bridget

replied on October 3rd, 2007

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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.

OctoberBaby06

replied on October 3rd, 2007

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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!

jessesgirl

replied on October 3rd, 2007

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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.

Sandbox Party

replied on October 3rd, 2007

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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.

rosejackson

replied on October 4th, 2007

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BridgetHeartsFinn wrote:

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 Smile

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