8/25/12

Veggies/eating schedule of a 10 month old

As a researcher and wanting Marsi to be the healthiest/happiest little kid out there, I spent a lot of my pregnancy and her life researching things.  I didn't buy any parenting books or things like that.  It was more of a "how should I introduce" this or that thing.  One of those things was solid foods.  I decided that baby lead weaning wasn't for us and decided on purees and cereal.

One of the best things that I decided to do because of a suggestion was to exclusively introduce Marsi to veggies for a while before she ever got any fruit.  To this day Marsi will eat at least double the veggies than she does fruit.  I always offer veggies first.  She loves her veggies.  I also decided that rice cereal wasn't for her either.  There were things that she liked, but I decided it wasn't substantial enough.

Every morning I eat a bowl of oatmeal, so I decided to introduce Marsi to a breakfast of oatmeal and breast milk.

She loves her breakfast!  It is usually 3 oz of milk mixed with 1/3 multigrain and 2/3 oatmeal cereal. (I added the multigrain for texture a week ago.) After that she eats about 1/2 jar of pureed fruit.

She gets a little bit of water from her sippy after breakfast.  2-3 hours later she has her first 7 oz bottle of pumped milk with a snack of a few yogurt bits and puffs right before her nap.

When she wakes from her nap, it is almost lunch time.  She plays for a bit and then asks to eat in her own little way.

For lunch she gets a veggie jar and about 1/4 jar of fruit.  She also gets her sippy of some water at this time too.

She takes her afternoon nap after she plays for a few more hours.  Right before her nap time, she gets the 2nd 7 oz bottle of pumped milk and goes to sleep.

When she wakes up, she drinks a little bit from her sippy and plays for about an hour before dinner.  Dinner is also a veggie jar and 1/4 jar of fruit.

She plays for a few hours until it is 7:30 pm.  Every night at that time Daddy takes her to bathe and she gets ready for bed.  She then gets her last 7 oz bottle of pumped milk right before she goes to sleep.

This didn't include all the stuff she mooches off of Endrit and I when we are eating at different times than her.  She gets quite a bit of stuff from us, but it varies day by day.  These are the constant things she gets!

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