How Much Food/nursing Should My 10 Month Old

My LLL Leaders always describe food & nursing during the first year or so like this:
The nursing should be a cake & the food the frosting. The VAST majority of it should be nursing & just a little bit of food, since it really doesn't provide much nutritional value during the first year or so. It's more for practice than nutrition.
Whenever you give your child solids, he should nurse first. That way he fills up on the good, nutritious stuff first. Then offer him some solids (2-3 times a day is perfectly fine for his age).
You can NEVER nurse a baby too much, so as often as he wants to is perfect!
He'll lead the way for you. He'll let you know what he wants & how much of it he wants. Listen to him & listen to your gut (which is sounds like you are).
LLL's "Womanly Art of Breastfeeding" & the Dr. Sears books (The Breastfeeding Book & The Baby Book) all have fantastic info! www.KellyMom.com always has the latest info as well as www.AskDrSears.com

Good job, mama!

You should be giving him a nursing session before every meal... solids at this point is to practice eating, not to take over the nutritional needs of an infant. Breastmilk has tons more complex fats, proteins, carbs and nutrients than any food and is what baby needs most of.

My ped suggests that by 9mos, they should be eating 3 regular "meals" a day, with bottles in between.

My 8mos old DD does 3 meals of baby food, and she gets a bottle between each of those (at "snack time"). Then a bottle first thing in the morning.
She's just getting into table food, so I don't count that as a meal just yet.

If he seems satisfied with that then don't fix what isn't broken! Breastfed babies are very adept at letting mom and dad know what they want and what they don't want. Always nurse then offer solids in between. Breastmilk should continue to be his primary nutrition for the entire first year. You'll know when he needs you to bump up the solids. Just allow him to continue to experiment and practice with foods.

Does the doctor think his size/weight is ok? If so, I wouldnt worry a whole lot about it.

I nursed both of my children, pretty much whenever they wanted and it didnt hurt their ability to eat other food. My kids are both great eaters, though, and everyone is different. By 10 months, they were eating a mix of baby food and table food. I think babyfood for breakfast and lunch, and some little finger foods for snacks, at lunch, and also at dinner.

You can get lots of inexpensive things for him to try. I bought the frozen bags of mixed veggies, and cooked about an 8th-4th of a cup at a time in the microwave. Both of my kids would sit in the high chair for 45 minutes picking up those little peas and corn kernels! Pinch up some bread, deli meat, cheese, etc. and you have a whole meal...

Any chance you get, give him little pinches of whatever you are eating - let him be exposed to lots of different kind of foods. I think more important than how much he is eating (he will eat if he is hungry) is getting him to try a wide variety of food.

A couple of ways I got my children to try lots of different (healthy) things:
Go to places that have free samples - and let the baby try them - especially good is a farmers market.
Go to a salad bar and get a tiny bit of everything
When you go out to eat with family, make everyone share a little smidge of their food with the baby :)

If you look on this site for finger foods, you can find lots of other posts where people list things their kids eat.

But, to answer your question, I dont think their is a right amount, but it is the time to start having him try lots of different table foods.

At that age mine would eat a jar of fruit with cereal in the morning. For lunch they had a jar of veggies and a jar of fruit. At supper they had a jar of veggies mixed with meet. I also gave them things on their tray to occupy them. Usually there was beans or cooked carrots or some other soft item they could use their fingers to eat. They nursed whenever they pleased.

Each child is different. I would just offer him what ever food you want and let him decide when he is full.

Sounds just about right to me. I would start to supplement the jarred baby food with some easy to pick up foods on his tray when you are sitting down for meals, so that he feels like he's eating lunch and dinner with you (even if all he does is play with the food on his tray while you eat). He'll let you know when he's ready for more when he really starts eating the finger foods you put on the tray. My babies' favorite first finger foods were scrambled eggs (yolks only first, b/c of allergies) and bananas - soft and easy to pick up and eat. You might try them, if you want.

Don't worry about a strict timeline. My now-4 year old wasn't eating solids really at all when he turned 1 (he wouldn't even touch his birthday cake, to my disappointment). But he became a great eater, and would try anything, by about 15 months. Other babies start much sooner - which is also fine.