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504000 tn?1242500793

Question on what 8 month should be eating

Hi girls i know all babies are different. My baby eats well, and gains weight he gets 3 meals and 3 bottles. but i was just curious to know what other mothers feed there babies at around 8 months.

Thank you.
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504000 tn?1242500793
thank you so much!!!
riot queen -  thank you that was a very long helpful response!
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384896 tn?1335294331
Ivy's 11 months old now, but she started REFUSING to eat baby food once she got around 6 months.
I made the mistake of giving her lil bites of whatever I was eating if I felt she would be able to handle eating it. i.e. mashed potatoes and country gravy. Her FAVORITE. lmao
Rice, puddings and yogurts, soup, etc.
She's been eating table food exclusively since she was about 7 1/2 - 8 months old. Around the time I weaned her from breastfeeding.
I can still sometimes give her the fruit baby foods cuz they taste good even to me and I'm 20 years old. Specially them naners!!! lmao

Your baby is deff old enough to start introducing some table foods like mashed potatoes n stuff.

This is Ivy's daily routine.
-One 10oz bottle of formula when she wakes up usually around 8am.

-At 10am is Breakfast. She preferrs either quaker's oatmeal with some chopped fruit, or a piece of toast with jam and a small deal of yogurt. And a cup of juice.

-12:30pm is Lunch. I like to get her those small microwavable chef boyardee's and kid quazine frozen meals from walmart cuz they're really cheap, really fast and easy to make, and she LOVES them. She usually has chef boyardee or a kid quazine for lunch. And if I don't have anything like that she likes a penut butter and jelly sandwich or something with a couple cheeto's puffs. Not the hard ones, the long poofy ones. And a cup of strawberry or chocolate milk with that.

-2pm is nap time and she gets another 10oz bottle of formula.

-She sleeps usually till about 3:30 - 4. She gets a snack when she wakes up which can either be a handful of Cherio's, a waffer cookie, or a fruit cup or something. And she gets a cup of ice water with that.

-7pm is Dinner and she gets whatever is being served to everyone else. And she gets a glass of plain white milk with that.

-After dinner is bath time, and she gets to play n do whatever she wants after that until 10pm which is bed time and she gets one last 10oz bottle of formula, gets her teeth brushed, and goes "Nuh-Nights."

lol

Hopefully your baby isn't a "schedule baby" as I like to call Ivy. She always has everything happen everyday around the same time and gets fussy if it doesn't.
That's partially my fault because I'm the one that started her on that schedule long ago, but I guess it makes it somewhat easier for me so I know what's gunna happen n when, and I can plan around it for some "me time" when she's napping.
It just ***** when I have an apt or something and it's lunch time for her at that same time so she she's gatta eat early or eat late and her nap's late and it throws everything off and she is cranky all day because of that.

Her cousin on the other hand is still exclusively baby food and he's 3 days younger than Ivy.
That shows how big of a different babies can vary.
Do what you're comfortable with, but I would deff start introducing some table food to your baby because he can't eat baby food forever!
lmao
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419158 tn?1316571604
Dalton is 12 months and for the life of me I cant remember what he ate exactly:( I do know he ate all his meals with us and I think about 3 bottles (I didnt think that was enough, but I guess my doctor said it was) and he had lots of snacks. crackers and stuff like that.
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