how much does your 8 month old eat?

[ehmom]

anyone care to share their 8 month old's eating/bottle schedule? ds has always been a big eater, i'm trying to gage if he's eating is on track.
thanks!

[amldaley]

DD is 8 1/2 months (born 7/30).

0530: nurse (so....5 or 6 oz?)
0745: nurse (a little less...4 or 5 oz?)
0845: offered rice and fruit or veg, almost always refuses, sometimes eats a few bites
1100: bottle, 4.25 oz
noon: offered rice and fruit or veg, usually eats 3 - 5 mouthfuls
1:00: nurse, 4-5 oz
3:30ish: bottle, 4.25 oz
5:30 or 6:00: nurse, 4-5 oz

usually nurses one or two more times between 7:00 pm and 5:30 am

and eats her weight in Cheerios....she does terrible with pured foods but the girls loves cheerios!

[jenny]

DD is 8 1/2 months (born 7/30).

0530: nurse (so....5 or 6 oz?)
0745: nurse (a little less...4 or 5 oz?)
0845: offered rice and fruit or veg, almost always refuses, sometimes eats a few bites
1100: bottle, 4.25 oz
noon: offered rice and fruit or veg, usually eats 3 - 5 mouthfuls
1:00: nurse, 4-5 oz
3:30ish: bottle, 4.25 oz
5:30 or 6:00: nurse, 4-5 oz

usually nurses one or two more times between 7:00 pm and 5:30 am

and eats her weight in Cheerios....she does terrible with pured foods but the girls loves cheerios!

Amldaley, I'm so relieved to hear that my daughter isn't the only child who refuses to eat solids.

DD is jus a few weeks older than your dc. She hates cereal and pureed foods. I've just started giving her whatever we're eating b/c I've given up. Yesterday she ate a few bites of a turkey meatball from TJs that I put in the spaghetti we were eating. The other day, at a friend's bday, I gave her some of the fried rice on my plate. She eats those Gerber puffs like crazy though.

She won't self feed either. I have to feed her. I've tried putting some puffs in her hand and she doesn't know what to do. Oddly she puts every non-food item in her mouth.

She's a big girl, probably 25 pounds, so I'm not terribly worried, but wondering if we need to see a specialist. She had issues latching on as well and breastfeeding, which is why I've been pumping for 9 months.

[DrSally]

I really don't know how often DD nurses during the day, prob every 2.5-3 hours. I offer solids one time a day around supper time and she only very recently started actually opening her mouth about 30% of the time. EVenso, she just lets the food hang there and then eventually closes her mouth. I didn't start until about 7 months b/c she was a month premature and we wanted to take it slow due to food allergies in the family. Anyway, she MAYBE eats 4-6 baby spoonfulls of some puree mixed with oatmeal 1x a day. She's in the 50%tile for weight/height. I won't be too worried about it until she's 12 months. They're supposed to be getting most of their nutrition from BM/formula for the first year anyway... I'll be happy when she can self feed more. I think she really doesn't like the texture/feel in her mouth.

[MommyofAmaya]

We are on the exact opposite end of the spectrum.
We introduced solids at 7.5 months. DS immediately lost interest in nursing. For several days he completely refused to nurse during the day. He started smacking his lips to show us he wanted solids. At this point, 9mo tomorrow, he is eating half a banana or a single serve applesauce for breakfast, two Happy Baby food cubes mixed with multigrain cereal for lunch and almost an entire YoBaby for dinner. I have to force him to nurse (no idea how many ounces) before every meal. He consistently wakes every three hours or so at night to nurse. I try to restrict snacks so he will breastfeed, but he also loves the Happy Baby puffs and Cheerios and would eat them all day if I let him.

[Beckylove]

DS is 9mo and I frequently wonder if his eating is on track as well.

8am nurse- no idea what amount, but the boy is a guzzler and I think it is a lot.
9am- oatmeal or rice with fruit mixed in. Usually eats 2tbs worth.
1pm- nurse
2pm- fruit or veg. Most he's ever eaten at this meal is 2oz. Sometimes only a few spoonfuls.
5pm- nurse
8pm- nurse

I can't really tell you if we're doing well at solids or not. I will be watching this thread closely to see how others compare.

[srkaplan]

DD is 8 1/2 months old (born 7/31) and has the following schedule:

7:30 - a few blueberries (while I'm fixing the rest of breakfast), oatmeal & fruit (usually 1/2 jar of fruit and 1 or 2 tbsp of oatmeal) and 1/4 to 1/2 of a YoBaby

8:30 - bottle (4 - 5 ounces)

11:30 - 1/2 jar of veggies, 1/2 jar of fruit, and the remainder of the YoBaby from earlier

3:30 - bottle (7 ounces)

6:00- veggies 7 barley (1/2 jar of veggies and 1 or 2 tbsp of barley)

7:00 - bottle (app 5 ounces)

Throw in a handful of Puffs at some point in the day & you pretty much have the full picture.

She has really started taking less and less bottle as she increases her solids, but she really enjoys her solid foods. I've been a little worried about how much formula she is taking in total each day, but I've recently read that 16+ ounces is ok, and I think we probably just hit that mark most days.

[cestkaren]

My son will be 8 months next week.

7 am - bf (5-6 ounces?)
9 am - 1 TBS rice cereal & 1 cube of apple puree (mixed with breastmilk)
11 am - bf
1 pm - 1 cube of carrots & 1 cube of sweet peas mixed with breast milk and 1/2 TBS rice cereal mixed with breastmilk
3 pm - bf
5 pm - 1 cube of sweet potatoes & 1 cube of green beans mixed with breastmilk
6:30 - 7:30 pm - bf
10 pm - bf

My son is chunky, they only time he refused to eat his solids is when I tried to feed him at 8 am. He spit the food back out at me. Oh - and when he tried avocado. As we start going through the fruits, we'll be adding in more fruits during the day.

[poppy]

Here's our schedule: (give or take time--not always the same)

4 am: 6.5 to 7 ounces BM
7:30 am: Half to quarter of a jar of fruit or veggies. Or two cubes of homemade. 4.5 ounces of BM or formula.
10:30 am: 4.5 ounces of BM or F; Rest of the jar of veggies (maybe a little leftover for next feeding) Or two cubes.
2 pm: 4.5 ounces of BM or F; Another jar of fruit or veggies or meat.
5 pm: 4.5 BM or F; Rest of jar or 2 cubes.
6:30 or 7 pm (after bath): 2 ounces of BM or F;

If he doesn't eat, I give him his favorite to jumpstart his diet: right now, he loves applesauce--got advice from a mama here and use TJ's unsweetened organic applesauce and freeze it into cubes. He loves it and helps with the next meal or I mix it with something he doesn't like as well--just a little of the other thing, mostly applesauce until he acquires a taste for it--then I keep adding more of the other thing to the applesauce.

Right now, he's sick so he's not eating well but he will eat applesauce.

[Babymakes3]

DD is 8 1/2 months (born 7/30).

0530: nurse (so....5 or 6 oz?)
0745: nurse (a little less...4 or 5 oz?)
0845: offered rice and fruit or veg, almost always refuses, sometimes eats a few bites
1100: bottle, 4.25 oz
noon: offered rice and fruit or veg, usually eats 3 - 5 mouthfuls
1:00: nurse, 4-5 oz
3:30ish: bottle, 4.25 oz
5:30 or 6:00: nurse, 4-5 oz

usually nurses one or two more times between 7:00 pm and 5:30 am

and eats her weight in Cheerios....she does terrible with pured foods but the girls loves cheerios!

This sounds almost exactly like my son except no bottles. He sometimes eats a few spoonfuls of fruit or veg but he LOVES Puffs! He seems interested in what we are eating but when we offer he refuses. He just got his first tooth so that limits alot of what we eat, he likes chewing on celery and pizza crust.
We are also dealing with a milk allergy.

[la mama]

My DC are also 8 months and seem to go back and forth with how much solid food they will eat.

Here's our typical day of eating:
7:00 - 6 oz. formula and 1 tbsp. oatmeal/mixed grain cereal
10:30 - 6 oz. formula, 1 cube veggies (rutabaga, peas, sweet potatoes) and 1 cube fruit (apples, pears, melon) mixed with a little cereal if needed
(DC don't always finish 6 oz. of formula at all meals but that's what I make)
1:30 - 6 oz. formula
4:30 - 6 oz. formula, 1 cube veggies and 1 cube fruit
7:30 - 4-6 oz. formula, depends on when the last feeding usually is

Then they both sleep through the night. I noticed though that I have fewer feedings than most. I always feed milk and solids at the same time, is that wrong or not recommended? Can you tell I'm a first time mom?

Also, I have gerber puffs and teething biscuits but it says on the packaging to wait until baby is crawling with belly off the ground. Is that what those of you who are feeding puffs did? DC have two bottom teeth already and DS has one top tooth coming in so they'd be able to break the puffs/biscuits down. Anyone know why the packaging says to wait? Thanks for the help/clarification!