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Kids get most of their nutrients from breast milk or formula until around age one, so the more the better. Other than that, trying to get a rounded diet is good but it doesn't matter much what you feed them. They are ready for table food when you can see that they are chewing what you spoon feed them and can pick up small pieces on their own.
I make all my food but this is about what my son ate and 8 months:
6-8 oz oatmeal with an ounce or two of fruit in it

3-4 oz fruit
3-4 oz vegetables or squash

cheerios and raisins

3-4 oz yams
3-4 oz fruit
pieces of what we were eating...meats and such
grahm crackers

Until 12 mos babies should get most of their nutrition from formula/breastmilk. Food is for taste, texture, experimenting. Hope that helps!

My little one was eating 3 times a day(solids) and drinking 3 8oz cups a day (formula). She's happy and healthy. Do what feels right to you. You're her mother, not them. Good luck.

My daughter is 9 months old now. She has been eating 3 meals a day now for about a month and a half. She gets an 8oz. bottle when she gets up in the morning. Then cereal and some fruit for breakfast. She gets another bottle, then I give her some table food for lunch along with a sippy cup of water. Dinner, gets another 8oz bottle (sometimes finishes before she gets dinner sometimes half. She either gets vegetable and meat or she eats what we are having. Just depends on what we are eating. Then before she goes to bed she gets another 4oz/6oz bottle. Usually she doesn't finish it. Also I give her some of those Gerber Puffs to snack on while I get her food ready for her or throughout the day. From what I remember reading, most babies are suppose to get 24-30oz's at this point, along with solids.

At 7-8 months my kids were sitting at the table eating 3 meals a day with the rest of the family. A meal was typically a veggie or fruit, meat and bread/cereal with water in a sippy cup to drink. I would nurse first thing in the morning, mid-morning, mid-afternoon and before bed. I would also offer after a meal.

I know alot of people say to nurse before sitting down to eat but I found that impossible. By the time my kids were 6 months old, they were too heavy for me to hold with one hand and nurse while walking around cooking like I can when they are newborns. If I'm nursing the baby before sitting down to eat, then we have no food to eat because I can't cook!

There are no hard and fast rules. Every family and every baby is different. Do what feels right for your family. As my pediatrician puts it, "feeding your baby should be natural and enjoyable, not a science and certainly nothing to stress about!"

I say, follow your own instinct mommy! This is your child, not theirs. When I felt my kids were ready for something, they got it. If they weren't ready, I waited. When in doubt, ask your doctor. You know your baby better than anyone else. I followed my own instinct, and thank God I had an old fashioned give em what they can handle kind of doctor, and my kids are turning out just fine. I have a 1 yr. old boy and a 9 yr old boy. I started out with 1 jar of solids with one cup of milk. I started a sippy cup as soon as they could hold their own bottles. They know what they want, they will be sure to let you know what they want. Good luck mommy and stand your ground.

I agree with Andrea and for that reason, we fed the breastmilk/formula first and then solids pretty much immediately after at each meal so the solids would just be a topper. This helped to promote healthy sleep as well so constant eating did not get in the way of healthy sleep. (Though when they have breastmilk/formula, then jar food, and finger food it sure does FEEL like they are eating all day and when they are not eating they are sleeping, but at least it's a short transition time. :) The transition to food being primary nutrition over breastmilk/formula generally coinsides with weaning to a cup which is typically 11-15 months old...somewhere in there. Hope this helps! :)

Your daughter will let you know what she is ready for.

My kids both were so excited to feed themselves that as soon as I let them start to eat finger foods they wanted nothing to do with being fed baby food. By 8 months, I had given up on baby food. My neice, on the other hand, is the opposite. She just turned 2 and still prefers to be fed. She stayed on baby food a little longer than my kids. I think all of them were probably taking around 24 oz. of breast milk or formula a day up until a year. I've read in baby books that up to a year breast milk and/or formula should be the primary sources of nutrition and solids are to get them used to other textures and tastes.

If you go to any parenting website, I'm sure you'll find recommended ages/menus. But, you're the mom, and you know your child better than anyone else. Go with your gut! :) Start asserting your right to make those decisions now, and hopefully your mom, MIL and caregiver will get the point that you'll do what you believe is best for your child! :) You just might need to reinforce the fact that you want everyone else to follow your guidelines even when you're not the one feeding her, or they'll do what they think is right.

Good luck!

Your baby needs to be ready to eat mostly all table foods and some stage 3 baby foods, off formula completely, by 12mos or so. So whatever timeline you want to use to get to that point in 4 mos is up to you. My kid didnt eat solid food of any sort, no baby food at all, until 10 mos old due to a hypersensitive gag reflex (couldnt handle either the spoon in her mouth or the feel of the food). Getting her to eat by then was with intensive work at home and with a speech therapist. THAT SAID, she was still off formula and eating real food by 12 mos, though mostly stage 3 jars for a couple more months. It worked out fine still.

The maximum ounces, I believe, a baby is supposed to have in a day is 32 oz. Over that too much and its not good, I THINK something to do with overworked kidneys?? But my kid drank close to 40 and her kidneys are fine. Moral of the story? If your kid is satisfied on a heavy formula diet, without drinking too much, and is growing fine, then its fine. If you want real back up, talk to your pediatrician.

I have to agree with the others comments. Personally, all three of my children were eating baby foods by 9 months. Breakfast: bowl of cereal, a plain pancake/waffle, or a bannana and a 6oz bottle
Lunch: jar of baby food (veggie) and a 4oz cup of juice (bottle if not ready for cups, but should be soon.)
Snack: 6oz bottle and some finger foods (cheerios, grahm crakers, gerber makes a bunch of different things now.)
Dinner: Jar of baby food (fruit stage 2), jar of dinners baby food, and a 6oz bottle.
This stage you give her will depend how much she wants to eat. I personally never increased the fruit beyond stage 2. Instead, I started giving them fresh bannanas, regular applesauce, things like that. The combinations, I still gave in baby food.
The one recommendation I received was not to give them the desserts. They are sweeter than the fruits and some kids won't eat the fruits after they have the desserts. just a thought.
Stick to your guns and do it the way you want. You know your child and what is best for her.

Not sure if this will help. When my son was that age, I gave him a lot of baby fruits and vegitables, some pastas and mashed potatoes (of course all mushed). I think by that age, most babies are not going to be content or full with primarily formula. My daughter didn't want any baby food and we gave her pretty much everything we ate, we just blended it first. I think your child will tell you what he needs, if more formula, less solids is not enough, then he needs to get more solids. Whatever you decide, you just need to gently let everyone know that you appreciate their input and concern, but this is the feeding schedule you have decided on.

I just searched a couple websites and from what I read the majority of the 7 and 8 month olds listed were eating a lot of solid foods. Hope it helps.

Trust your instincts and follow your baby's lead. Every baby is different, so do what you feel is best for your baby - mama knows best!

My daughter ate cereal and fruit in the morning, a whole thing of Stage 2 veggies at lunch and a jar of Stage 2 dinners at dinner time. She'd have 4 6 oz bottle throughout the day. Does your baby have teeth? If so, you can start on the thicker or Stage 3 foods. It's really up to you and your baby. Try different things and you'll find out what she likes rather quickly. Do not give your baby eggs, peanut butter, honey or caro syrup until they are at least a year old. Also, give your dd plenty of snacks throughout the day. My dd loves Cheerios! She'll eat them like they're candy. Just do what you think is best.

I agree with A. below. Babies should be on primarily BM/formula until 12 months. Baby food, solids, finger foods are just for practice really so follow your babies lead as far as how much she wants of that. But don't decrease the BM or formula. It is no big deal if they are still on it at 12 months, it is only after that time that you would start decreasing the amount of milk they take in.