Hi Olive,
My DS will be 10 months on the 23rd.
He has 5 Breastfeeds a day, but none overnight usually () and he has a weetbix and a half crumbled up with a tiny bit of cows milk for brekky (not sure if he should be having the cows milk, but havent seen any kind of intolerance etc). I warm it up in the microwave for a few secs. This is the meal he loves the most, and one weetbix just wasn't sastifying him, he would sit there with his mouth open grunting at me for more, but by the same token, he sleeps 12hours straight at night, so by the time he gets up he is usually pretty hungry. I offer booby first then brekky.
Lunch and dinner is where I find it hard to think of what to give him. Often he ends up getting the same meal for both, I just use whatever current "meal" I have made him in bulk in the fridge- usually a soup of some kind made with vegies and stock and onion, or stewed fruit crumble made with rolled oats.
I do use some spices, as he doesn't like real bland things.
And he eats as much sometimes as my 5 yr old....but let me add he is a BIG boy. He is very, very lean, but off the charts long, and is taller than most 1 year olds, so he has long hollow legs to fill!
I am having trouble moving away from having to cook a seperate meal for him. He is getting better at chewing meat etc, it's just that we don't have a lot of meat and three veg meals ourselves, more often than not we have pasta or rice or stir fry etc...
As for snacks, I sometimes give him bread with butter and vegemite, or a couple of sultanas, and he sometimes has a wheat biscuit as a treat, but thats it really. He doesn't mind watermelon, and seems to cope with chewing this up. Apple he just rolls around in his mouth for a very long time.
I am very hit and miss with giving him water. I offer it all meals, but he only has a couple of sips and thats it. I will offer it of we are out. I figure he is getting lots of hydration from his booby milk.
None of this probably helped at all, but good luck!
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