Started basic solids... what next?

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I was trying to find the calculation for how much formula for a 6month old but not finding it online.
Your clinic sister should also be able to tell you this, or perhaps someone on here. But its got to do with her weight.

The formula for milk intake given by my paed is:
Formula feed 140 x weight / number of feeds per day

Hi Claire,

Sounds like she's doing fabulously!

Here's my 2 cents: When are you feeding her at the moment? At night before bath? My suggestion would be to make that meal the rice cereal meal and give it to her an hour after her bottle. So if she has a bottle at 4pm feed her cereal at 5pm. That way, she's getting her whole milk feed, which is very important, and will fill her tummy with cereal as much as she wants. You can give some fruit afterwards. Most meals can be two courses now. Also the fruit helps prevent constipation. Once she's happy eating rice cereal, offer it in the morning, an hour after her milk, with a little apple mixed in.

You could be giving her 3 meals already. IMHO, lunch should be when you introduce any new foods because if they have a reaction, it will happen during the day and not at night when you're all sleeping. At lunch she could have a veg followed by a fruit.

You can also try giving her baby marrows, pear, potatoes, green beans and turnips, at this stage, all cooked and pureed.

If she's picking up weight, I wouldn't worry about the milk. As long as you are giving her milk before food, she's getting all she needs.

My Em also never drank more than 750mls of milk per day. At 6 months, she was only drinking 450mls - 600 mls per day. I would start introducing another meal now. U can do 1 meal at 10AMish and then the other at about 4PM. Then gradually introduce a snack for lunch until you give her 3 full meals. Even then she should be getting snacks inbetween as well (especially if she is not drinking alot of milk). By 9 months, she should be on 3 full meals + snacks. They can get cows milk from 1 year old. But you can already start introducing yoghurt now - just give her a little bit at first to check for allergies.

Good luck!!

Once she is on the full portion of one meal a day, you can introduce a second meal starting off with just one spoonful and after a few days increasing it, as you did the first meal until its a full meal.
Lunch is normally the last meal you introduce and by this time they may start dropping a bottle, but I honestly cant recall when Kaylee started dropping a bottle it may have been around 8 or 9 months old. Milk is still most important for the first year so you dont need to rush into it.
I would say to follow baby's que's, dont force her to eat, she should show you if she's enjoying it and wanting more by willingly opening her mouth for the food.

The clinic sister should be able to inform you about all this though, I must say I got more of this type of info from the clinic sister than I did the paed.
She gave out meal plans with ideas on what you can introduce when, what meals, how many bottles for age appropriateness etc.
So I would suggest getting to see one before you can see your paed.
Also K never ever drank the formula tin's recommended quantity a day. Some paeds will say that thats just money making.

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I was trying to find the calculation for how much formula for a 6month old but not finding it online.
Your clinic sister should also be able to tell you this, or perhaps someone on here. But its got to do with her weight.

Hi there girls.

So Hannah-Kate is doing well, so far she has eaten and enjoyed butternut, sweet potato, apple, carrots and peas. It was all bought from babybellies (company which puree's organic food and freezes it into ice cube portions).

I am wondering when to start her on more than one meal a day? I feel a little in the dark about the next step, as I am yet to take her to a paed. She will only be on our med aid end Feb, so paed must wait till then..I wanna make a point of at least getting her weighed this week tho.

I would like to stay off purity/any thing with preservatives in it for as long as possible. I am yet to still start with rice cereal. She has gone onto lactogen 2 now and is drinking 750ml a day.

So when is a good time to start feeding another meal? Do i do breakfast or lunch first? How old are they normally before you go onto 3 meals a day? I assume when u have 3 meals a day, they then drop a bottle feed? - that concerns me as she already doesnt drink the required amount of milk in the day.

How old are they normally when they go onto cows milk/yoghurt?