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amother

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 7:16 pm

Hoping some experienced moms can help.
What does a 10 month old need to eat?
My baby is eating solids for a few months and I'm also still nursing and while the feedings are getting shorter I haven't been nursing less often though ppl tell me that it just happens...
Obviously every baby is a little different and I do go with the flow but just want a general picture of how much they should be eating and when. What's a sample menu\schedule for a baby this age?

amother

NeonOrange

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 7:22 pm

I was mostly feeding in demand, but roughly like this.
Once in morning before 9/work (could've been 730 too) Twice at sitter. Once after work/330, then on and off until 7/730 bedtime.
Thruout night as needed.

I also added 3 meals. So 830 oatmeal. Lunch at sitter yogurt. Dinner at 4/5 whatever I cooked for everyone (chicken/veg/starch)

Other food ideas
Banana
Cottage cheese
Bread with avocado or peanut butter
Cheese stick
Cucumber to chomp on
Scrambled eggs
Mashed eggs with drop mayo

amother

NeonOrange

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 7:23 pm

Mines just over a year and I'm still struggling with variety of food. I think the diet is boring. He doesn't go for bread so just avo slices is not a real meal.

amother

Rose

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 8:42 pm

Hi,

I think before a year I did not cut out feedings (I exclusively nursed) but once they were about 6 moths old they were nursing only every 4 hours or so and that is around when I started to introduce solid foods.

The goal is to slowly build up to them eating 3 meals a day plus snacks by the time you start cutting out nursing. Babies need the breastmilk/formula until they are about 1 so I waited till that point to started cutting out the feedings.

I did the baby led weaning method (not strictly) and I was very happy with it. My children are not picky at all, food is barely ever an issue, and I found that cutting out the nursing wasn't particularly difficult.

Here are some ideas of what you can give your 10 month old:
avocado slices
banana
hard boiled eggs
scrambled eggs
shredded chicken
ground meat
veggies from soup
cheese slices
PB and J sandwiches sliced in strips

I also made sure to introduce all allergen foods like sesame, PB, nuts, eggs etc

Sample schedule for my 10 month olds (from memory, not exactly!):
-Nurse when they wake up
-breakfast at babysitter (pancakes, cut up fruit, oatmeal, yogurt, eggs, cheese etc)
- pumped bottle around 4 hours after their first feed of the day
-Lunch at baby sitter (bread with cream cheese, peanut butter, chumps etc, noodles, soup in thermos, fish sticks, cut up pizza, leftovers from dinner etc..)
-nap
- pumped bottle after nap
- snack (bamba, crackers,fruit etc)
- Dinner (early around 4 iish)
- Nurse
- Sleep

amother

Mon, Jun 05 2023, 9:22 am

Thanks! This is very helpful.

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