Hi there all
It may seem a silly question but can anyone advise me on how much my little one should be eating. She is 8.5 months now and is blooming but I seem to be getting myself in a state with her feeding. She just loves her milk so I suppose I shouldn't worry but isn't a big solid eater. Roughly how many spoonfuls should she be eating at a time? She has breakfast of rusk and fruit and then 2 more solid meals a day but only seems to take a few tommee tippee spoonfuls and there is just no way I can feed her more.
Off to see my Doctor for a 9 month check up soon so will also ask her
What do u think??
She is healthy and sleeps through the night so I suppose I shouldn't worry too much
Hugs
Tracey
xxxx

I cant really help even though jayden is nearly 8 months cause hes the total opposite, not bothered about milk at all nowadays and a total solids eater. What I did was get an empty stage 1 and stage 2 jar ( he has stage 1 at lunch and 2 at dinner) i put it into a bowl so i roughly knew how much he should be having when making him homemade food.

for lunch he will have stage 1 plus a fruit pot and at dinner a stage 2 plus a lil petit filous yog.

Hope that helps x

Jack not fussed about milk either hes 6 month and on 3 meals breakie cereal lunch 4 cubes of fruit puree mixed with half a banana tea 6 cubes of veg with 1 cube of meat or pasta and 3x6-7oz bottles. xxx

hi tracey!
a real dilemma!! just as an idea
isobel is 8 1/2 months (26th sept) and has:
1 x 8oz bottle (wake up)
baby cereal with approx 3oz milk (abou 2hrs after milk)
lunch - prob 1/2 7 month jar (usually equivalent as she has homemade) with yoghurt / fruit pot with drink
dinner - same again
bed 8oz bottle
between, she may have snacks - a couple of baby cheese puffs (organix), toast, rice cakes, biscuit etc

hopefully this helps

love nicki

Kara is 9 months on Monday and is not a big drinker of milk either. She never was since she was born.

7am - 7oz bottle although she doesn't always finish it.
Between 9pm and 10pm she has either Wheetabix or Readybrek
Lunch she has either soup, custard, boiled egg etc followed by either a fruit purree or a Yoghurt
For a snack at approx 3pm I usually would give a yoghurt if she didn't get one for lunch or maybe a rusk.
Dinner she has potato, veg, gravy and depending on how much she eats I give her a few Organix Carrot sticks or sweetcorn snacks and occasionally a Baby Bear Cow and Gate Biscuit.
Then at 7.30pm she has a 7oz bottle though very rarely finished this.

Hope this helps.
Louise

Kade is now 9 months but he has been eating the same since about 6 1/2 months and eats for lunch 1 Annabel Karmel food cube of veg & pasta with half a pot of yoghurt with some finger food like organix carrot sticks and for dinner he will have two AK food cubes of meat & veg followed by some finger food such as fruit toast etc.
Not sure how many spoonfuls are in each cube though?
I do know baby will know when they have had enough though so don't worry too much. As long as she seems healthly and happy,I'm sure your doing just fine.

Hi Tracey Lexie will be 8 months on the 16th and she has a yoghurt and some toast for breakfast 1/2 stage 2 jar for lunch and dinner a whole stage 2 jar or same amount of food that ive made with a yoghurt or fruit pot and baby rice before bed as she loves it lol and she might have a rusk to chew on or a couple of organix carrot sticks in between meals if shes still hungry and bf on and off all morning then i offer again at 1pm and 3pm and about 3floz of cow and gate goodnight milk before bed hope this helps take care Lin

My ittle girl sounds just like yours! She loves her milk & isn't interested in solids at all.
She will have 6-7oz milk every 3-4 hours & all I can get her to eat is a Little Stars yoghurt/framage frais at lunch, a couple of oatcakes & just a couple of spoonfuls of whatever ive made up.
I have tried her on jars of baby food from the supermarket, I bought an Annabel Karmel baby cookbook & do all the recipes from out of there, I tried eating with her but nothing. She either spits it out or just has 2 maybe 3, if Im lucky, Tommee Tippee spoonfuls.
So she probably eats less than your little girl.
She spits rusks back out & most fruits & veg. She seems to be very very fussy which is a surprise as none of us or our family are fussy eaters. As a matter of fact, my husband is a Head Chef!!!
I give her finger foods of fruit, veg, rusks, oatcakes etc which she seems to have a little bit of but mostly just plays with it & chucks it around!
But she is very healthy, very very happy, she sleeps through the night, she's gaining weight so the health visitors told me not to worry & she will eat when she's ready.
Lilly is 8 months old next week so a very similar age.
Check with your doctor when u go but, as I say, I go to get Lilly weighed every 2 weeks with the health visitors & they aren't worried one bit, so Im not. I hope that helps & puts u at ease a little!! :\)