I don't quite remember, but I think both boys were having only 3 or so bfs a day at that age. DS1 was eating pretty much no solids, and DS2 was eating heaps of solids. DS1 was drinking only a little water and DS2 quite a bit. Funnily enough DS2 is a smaller build than DS1 too!
my DD2 is 9 months. she has breakky (usually pretty big, mainy farrax and fruit or weetbix made up with formula) then i will give her some toast a hour or so after that. lunch is usually just a custard, then a biccy or a rusk an hour or so after that, then dinner is puree vegies and meat and sometimes a jelly or another custard (usually only half a jar) after that. i give her water after and during each meal and i demand breastfeed throughout the day, so anywhere from 4-10 feeds, though alot of those are snack bar type mini feeds. she still feeds ALOT overnight too, pretty much attached from 11pm onwards. :-( i dunno if that is enough either actually, she is on the little side but i think that is just genetics her sis was little too.
Last edited by 2CheekyMonkeys; January 6th, 2010 at 07:03 AM.
I wouldn't worry too much - your daughter will let you know if she is hungry. I think DS was on 2 bf a day by 10 months and ate whatever we had for lunch and dinner. With breakfast I started offering the boob after brekky at this age and that seemed to work better - and he eventually dropped that feed.
I don't know if DD is eating enough either!! She doesn't really have snacks, just 3 meals. So the last few days I've been making sure she has snacks too but it's not much, just a bit of fruit. When she has meals though she eats a lot so I guess it's ok. She also BFs AT LEAST every 3 hrs still.
Don't know if this is helpful, but I'm finding with my DD that she doesn't want to eat 3 big main meals a day like she did at around 8-9months old. Since about 10-11 months old she prefers to have smaller meals interspersed with snacks. So she will have a relatively small breakfast, a small snack, a small-ish late lunch, sometimes an afternoon snack, and then depending on how much she's eaten and when she ate last in the the afternoon anything ranging from a small dinner to a whopping great big dinner.
She is also demand breastfed, so she still has up to 6 feeds (sometimes more) in 24 hours, 4 of those during the day, interspersed between eating meals and snacks. Some days she'll drink quite a lot of water, other days she'll barely have a couple of sips.
When she first started doing this I worried that she wasn't eating enough solids anymore - it really felt like she was only pecking a little at things, but when I thought about it (and the telling is often in the nappy!) she really is eating quite a lot - it's just small amounts often. I thought that she was having too much milk as she's still having as many breastfeds in the day as she did when she was 4 months old, even more at night, in fact. But I think she is just having much smaller little "thirst-quencher" BFs now.
I think it's quite common for babies to change their eating habits as they get a little bit older - especially in the transition to being toddlers - perhaps as they start using more energy, they seem to need to eat/drink more regularly to keep their blood sugar/energy levels topped up properly, and often food is not as much fun as doing more fun things like playing and toddling - if, as sitting in a high chair eating involves, there's too much sitting still for my DD she hates it!
I'm sure you're DD is getting enough - she'd let you know if she wasn't - she's just on the go now, and perhaps it's worth remember that up to 1 year old milk is still priority over solids. If you're still concerned that she's not having enough solids when she's around 12 months, then you could try offering solids before BF, such as offering breakfast before milk as kylieb has mentioned.
Olive, DS would be the same as your DD. He has 4-5 feeds daily, 2 overnight and solids basically whenever we eat. He eats a paultry amount compared to other babies his ages that I know (after having watched their mothers just shovel it in), but he's happy.
He clamps his mouth shut after exactly 3 mouthfuls of anything - even when he's feeding himself so I guess that's his limit atm.
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