1 Year Old Feeding Schedule - Dallas,TX

There is no rush to get rid of the bottle. My daughter had a bottle at naptime and bedtime until she was three. In between, she drank from a regular cup, not a sippy cup. Food was offered to her at all three meals, and in between times as snacks. I didn't have a strict schedule.

For the most part, I think I just offered food every couple of hours. My boys were both very independent eaters by 10 months. They wanted to feed themselves, so I really had to be creative and serve finger food. I think I just offered food every 2 hours or so and made sure they had something to drink with it.

I was pretty bad about the bottle. Neither one was off the bottle at 1 year. They both transitioned just fine once I decided to bite the bullet and go for it.

I'm not too good with schedules. I'm just more of a "go with the flow" type mom. Good luck!

Gosh, it's been a while, but I think it's pretty much a regular meal schedule. 3 meals and 2-3 snacks. I still think milk with most meals, but start introducing water more regularly.. Maybe a sippy right before bed?

7am Breakfast
9am Snack
12pm Lunch
Nap
3pm Snack
5 pm Dinner

Here is my 13 mo DD schedule. She used to do formula in a bottle all day and i just started switching one at a time (water for meal times and cup of milk vs bottle of formula for wake up/before sleep times) and eventually she got to the following:

right at wake up: cup of whole milk
shortly after wake up: continue milk and also some dry cheerios once she has woken up and while i am getting ready
1 hour later: oatmeal with apple sauce mixed in or scrambled eggs w/cup water
pre morning nap: a few sips of milk from cup
next wake up: have lunch. 1 serving meat or dairy + 1 veggie and 1 fruit with water
2:30 snack time before nap: a cracker or dry cheerios or puffs + a little milk in cup
nap time
wake up: a little water and cracker to tide over til dinner
dinner at 6 or 6:30:1 serving meat or dairy + 1 veggie and 1 fruit with water
before bed: a whole cup of milk

PS - I think i may be using too much milk, you may not want to use so much. Good luck

My son's schedule looked like this:

6 am-wake up and nurse
6:30/7ish-breakfast
9:30 am-nap
10:30 am-snack with milk in a sippy cup
12 pm-lunch with milk in sippy cup
1:30 pm-nap
3 pm-snack with milk in sippy cup
5:30 pm-dinner
7 pm-nurse before bed
7:30 pm-bedtime

He transitioned to two nursing sessions per day right around his first birthday because I was having a hard time keeping up with pumping for him. To transition from 4 nursing sessions a day down to 2 we replaced one daytime feeding with a snack for about a week and then the following week I took out the other one and replaced it with a snack. We started with snacks I knew he'd like, like oranges or apple sauce and I never forced the milk. I also usually offered milk and water in sippy cups and let him choose. He got over it fairly quickly. I started the new routine on a Saturday and by the time I took him to daycare on Tuesday he was fine with it. For us the transition wasn't about the bottle, it was about switching from breast milk to soy milk in our case (his tummy didn't handle that much cow's milk very well and to this day he drinks almond milk-he's now 2 1/2).

the 5 small meals ( really a snack to you or me) is common and worked best for us. both my kids did this and it kept them in good moods.,\ i think their tummys arent big enought to holdbig meal and less pressure to eat all the food served at one time. my son hated baby food in jar. he went from breast/bottle to solids (what i call table scraps, little bites of what everyone esle was eating). every child is diffferent!

Exactly as it is right now. I promise, the only magic that will happen in a week is the best 'Mothers Day' ever (they only THINK it's their birthday... really... it's where we get to get all gushy about them). Developmentally and diet wise... there will be no drastic change at all. Not even a little one. It's a process.

Just start slowly adding in more things. Just as you have been doing! :)

My own son, we just *started* solids at 1yo, and we kept on formula until well over 18mo (fast grower, he needed it). By the time he transitioned completely to solids (that slow, gradual process of following their cues and what works and what doesn't)... he was eating every 3 hours, and drinking milk fairly constantly. We fed on demand as a baby, and it just worked out so well that we continued that until THIS year (when he went on meds that make him hungry ALL the time. Oy. But that's a temporary thing).

It was a fun thing to watch. Nutritionists recommend that we ALL eat small meals every 3 hours or so, instead of gorging 2 or 3 times in a day, and that was exactly the pattern he fell into. Small meals every couple hours. To make it easy on myself, I just saved leftovers. As in, I cooked him tons, and whatever he didn't finish went on his shelf in the fridge for later. It was accidental, but it worked out GREAT as both portion control (aka only eating until you're full), as well as "tells" on when he was about to hit a growth spurt. Because when he was about to start growing, he'd PACK on the food. Whoa. It's all gone! Okay. Time to start cooking more!

I just fed him the exact same things as I ate EXCEPT... from starting solids until apx age 2... there's a neurological thing that happens: The brain registers all chemical signatures into a "library". They have to eat them at least a few times for a chemical to "stick". Then, at around age 2-3 any chemical that hasn't been 'registered' gets tagged as "Poison" and initiates a Gag! Yuck! Spit! It! Out! response. It wears off at apx age 5-6.

You know the "picky eater" thing you hear about toddlers? 99 times out of 100 it's because parents gave their kids bland 'toddler' food... and by the time parents were ready to start introducing more... their child's brain had already switched over. YES it's important to introduce new things carefully for allergies, but DO introduce lots of new things. Otherwise you're looking at a diet of unseasoned chicken, bread crumbs, 4 veggies, etc (the list of gerber toddler foods is about 11 items long) for then next 4-5 YEARS.

So we spent all of that year "travelling the world" as far as food went. It doesn't matter if it's cilantro in chinese, mexican, salad... once cilantro gets tagged as "food", it's there to stay.

So go WILD on the spices, herbs, seasonings, cheeses, sauces. Get creative. It can be fun to see what kids reeeeeeeally love. Just tone down the heat on spicy dishes, but introduce as many chemical signatures as you can!!!

My daughter is 15 months. I weaned her from breastfeeding at 1, and this is what we went to:
wake up: 8 oz bottle of whole milk (yup, we're still doing a bottle-I plan to stop around 18 months...I just didn't want to take everything good away at once :))
8:00 breakfast and sippy water
10:30 (after nap) sippy whole milk
12:30ish lunch w/ sippy water
4:00 (after nap) sippy whole milk and small snack
6ish dinner and sippy water
bedtime 8 oz bottle whole milk

Breakfast is usually some kind of fruit, and either toast or an egg or both
Lunch varies...always a veggie, usually a fruit, and then a grain (she loves pasta) and a protein (cheese, beans, soy dog, boca burger)
Dinner is similar to lunch...usually bites of what we are having, in addition to whole milk yogurt..again, always a veggie, grain, protein
I don't know that I'm doing this "right"....my daughter is a milk fanatic and so I think we're a bit heavy on the milk.
There are usually some other (little) random snacks thrown in too.
Hope this helps....

Bottle when he wakes up, then cereal and some fruit. Lunch finger type
foods, a bit later bottle, then dinner is whatever you are eating and a bottle
before bed. I do not see a rush to get him off his bottle if he enjoys it. He is
only a year old. In between lunch and dinner he can have a snack of some
sort.