What to Feed My 11 Month Old.

I have been feeding mine,one stage 3 jar and then an 8oz bottle.For lunch stage 3 jar and water or hot tea. At dinner a stage 3 an 8oz bottle and some times I give him hot tea, if he still doesn't want to go to bed.

Sounds like you're right on track. Formula is required for the first year, after that you can transition to whole milk. Bottles are still very normal for this age. I wouldn't try to transition to those until after the first year.

Hello D.,
Have you consulted your PED about transitions and feedings? I try to check with her regarding food every visit just to be sure I am on track. Wiening from formula often depends on weight. I have read baby should be double birth weight by 6 mos and triple birth weight by 12 mos. At 11 months there were not many restrictions except whole milk. That we did not start until 1 year. We also held off on corn until 1 year because it is very hard to digest. I fed my little one jarred food with some soft table foods at that age and now that she is a year she gets to taste everything. I continued formula/breast milk until 1 year. She has never enjoyed sippy cups, but loves drinking from a cup. Now she enjoys everything from Vienna Sausage to shrimp on a skewer.

There are sippy cups out there that are like bottles with the soft nipple like tops I'd get those and never give her juice in it. just water and formula and then get a hard top wippy cup with juice because she will learn to like that one more and want to use it more often later when it comes time to ween all together. also bad for teath to have a soft niple and juice mixed. Also about the food thing. Mine were both on solids like spagetti and macaronie+cheese. hot dogs and other soft little foods even if it was prok chops I'd cut it small they loved it well by 8 months mine were both eating food like that because they had teeth. I think if they have teeth then they can eat big kid foods. Also Mashed potatoes will fill her up faster without having her gain alot of weight so that way she can be full for longer periods of time. Potatoes are the best food for that and dieting. better than bread becasue it's a veggie. Also Make sure at 1 year you get her off the younger formula. if it concerns you she is old enough for the enfamil next step for babies ages 9months to 24 months it get's there tummies ready for mik and it's worth it. you might not need to get it for a long time I only used it for the easy transition just in case they got sick. for about 2 months. then slowly ease into milk but you should ween the bottle while your doing this. if she has 3 bottles /day lower it to 1 sippy sup when she is MOST hungry and 2 bottles then 2 sippys and 1 bottle then eventually no bottles. And make sure the sippy for the milk is with the soft top at least for now. the best ones are the 2 packs for lik $6. the cheap ones break fast and leak. also when she is teething soft lids will get cracked so check them often.
Hope I've helped a bit. if you have any questions please feel free to ask me. I'm like the experto on bottles and sippys. I was always trying new ones and I'm very lazy so if I did'nt feel like washing them I got new ones. LOL

Hi D.,
I have an 11 month old baby girl. she is currently still BF. She is always eating solids. no more baby food. she wont touch it. i was told by a wic consultant to be feeding her milled table foods. so she eats one half of an adult serving of cream of wheat for breakfast. then she nurses at nap time. she eats again in the evening maybe five pm. that is usually a snack or small serving of food. she will eat again before bed usually around 9:30 pm, and that is usually what ever i make for dinner. whether it is spaghetti, stew, mashed potatoes. anything you can blend or mill up she can eat too. She then nurses one more time before bed. My daughter has always been between the 75% and 90% in weight. as far as the formula goes i think a pediatrician told me they need to be getting about 20 oz. per day. I have already stated my daughter on whole milk to supplement her calcium intake due to her only BF twice a day. Hope this helps out. i wish you the best of luck.
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my son is 10 mos going on 11. he eats table food like mashed potatoes. now is probably a good time to transition or wing her off the bottle and formula. repalce a third of the formula with milk and after another few weeks try half and half. soon after she should be drinking a third of milk and water. my son took it really well so he is now drinking half 2% milk and water.

Hi D. I think it depends on the mother and sometime the child. My oldest transitioned very well went from formula to whole milk not a prob in a cup no bottle except for at noght and solid foood during the day she was an awsome. Now my baby gave me hell she hated sippy cups so I had too find the one with a rubber top no spill cup and wanted her bottle all the time then one day she just wanted a normal cup with blues clues and Dora and that was it. So I think it's more what you want to do. I don't think you will not make a wrong decision when it comes to your child.

This is where the tough love comes in. When my son was around eleven or twelve months I had to out the bottles away and gave him only sippy cups. He hated me for it especially at night because that was bottle and rock time to get him to fall asleep. I think that this only lasted two or three days and he was a regular sippy cup drinker. He also seemed to have trouble getting liquid out of it, when I mentioned this to his doctor she told me I had to keep the little plastic thing out of the lid. You know the rubber stopper that you put in on the bottom of the lid where the mouth piece is that keeps the liquid from spilling out. I did not have to do this for very long until he figured how to suck on it. It is tough and she may cry for her bottle but it is better than the dental bill in the future for the damage that a bottle can do to teeth.

Hi,

My name is D. and I read what you had to say and I think that you are doing great. I feel that if she's hungry she will let you know and she seems to be healthy. I personally was so stressed the first year about the right way and the not so right way, I lost view of a lot of the wonderful new things that every new day brought. I came to find out that I just had to trust in myself and know that my daughter would let me know if she needed something else.

I was told by my daughters Dr. that she was happy to see that my daughter was off the bottle by the time she was one. I started by putting water in her sippy and just letting her play with it. (All the time with or without meals) She finally got the hang of it, she liked the ones with handles on either side. Once she understood how it all worked I put her formula in the sippy and slowly replaced it with whole milk (warmed) durring meal time, and water and some juice all other times. So by one she was off formula and the bottle. Except those nights when she wouldn't sleep, I would still give her some formula in a sippy until my supply ran out. I still give her warm milk at night.

And about solids... I was told that once my daughter had a few teeth and she was up and moving around I could slowly introduce new foods. Now she is 21 mo. and she eats what ever it is I'm eating. I hope that there was something here that helped!

D.

My daughter is almost 11 mo-only 6 more days-and she eats a lot of solid food. For breakfast she had yogurt mixed with cereal, some banana, and cheerios. For lunch she had a sandwich made with ground chicken, carrots, and yogurt on wheat bread and some cheese cubes. For dinner she had pasta, beans and cottage cheese. It is not the same everyday sometimes she is not that in to food and just wants to nurse. She still nurses often, in between meals and at nap and bed times. She likes her cup but just started to really drink out of it. She does not like to be fed and so finger foods have always been better for her. We feed solid food at a set times and she nurses whenever she wants.

I'm so glad you asked this question because I wonder the same thing all the time. I have a 10 mo. old who is also on formula and solids. He has four meals, breakfast is solids and a bottle, lunch is a bottle, linner (about 4 pm) is solids and a bottle, and then he gets a pre-bed bottle. When it's time to feed him solids, I give him Veggie Puffs or freeze dried fruit (both found in baby section) on his tray to keep him happy while I prepare his food. Then I will feed him jar baby food or soft real finger food. He eats things like banana, kiwi, yams, string cheese, avocado, etc. I cut them into small strips, instead of cubes to ease my mind about choking. Yes, it is messy and a new food usually ends up squished in his fingers, but once he figures out it tastes good, he starts getting it in his mouth. I also think what you feed her may depend on her teeth. My son has two teeth on the bottom, so his chewing capacity is limited until he gets some uppers. He also loves a hunk of bread, like a toasted mini bagel, or a slice of French bread. Be warned though, mine likes get it soft and doughy and then "chipmunk" it in his mouth. I'm always pulling big lumps out of his mouth. I usually do this when were out to dinner and he wants to eat because were eating. Every restaurant has bread. About the sippy cup, we started helping our son drink out of a small plastic cup a couple months ago (we used a bottle cap to start). A couple of sips after his solids and now he LOVES water. He can't hold the cup on his own, but he knows what it is. Now that we've introduced the sippy cup, he knows there's water in it, so he tries hard to figure out how to get it out. He's not there yet, but soon I think.

At 11 months, they can eat quite a few things:
Whole wheat frozen waffles and sprinkle a little cinnamon and add enough formula over them to make them soft enough to chew.

Cottage Cheese is great mixed with veggies and fruit.

Yo Baby Yogurt mixed with rice krispies. It gives them a little texture.

You can also give grated cheese, soft steamed veggies and mandarian oranges.

Mac n' Cheese cooked well and mix in some very soft veggies like zucchini or spinach

You can give them almost any table food as long as you can puree it a bit while still giving some texture to the food. We never did baby food at all, I always made my own so I had to get creative. Im happy I did my son eats EVERYTHING.

And just a suggestion for the bottle, we weaned our son by 10 months. We started early because we thought we were going to have trouble. We would divide the formula between the bottle and sippy cup,each time giving less in the bottle and more in the cup. He was resistant at first but after 2 weeks he preferred the sippy cup. I highly reccommend the Avent Sippy cups. They are great and have worked for several friends. Hope this helps.

my kids are all older now (13, 11, and 8). By 10-12 months, we were feeding them pretty much whatever they would eat. (even thought my kids didn't get a whole lot of teeth until they were almost 2) 30% for weight seems a little low. Would she eat all day because she is hungry? At 10-12 months, even without teeth, you can introduce A LOT of foods, pretty much ANY FOOD. We didn't do much jarred baby food, because we eat healthy and we would just mash everything up. (not high acid or spicy things like pasta sauce/tomatoe or salsa's) And we didn't do the "no no" foods like eggs and honey. Whole milk they all got at a year. We have always had VERY healthy children, and good eaters. Of course, always check with your doctor, but, often, they will give you the medical book answer. Ask other mom's they will give you the real life answers. They are usually VERY different. Hope that helps.

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My son always seemed to want to eat what we were eating, so I just chopped everything up in my Food Chopper (even stuff like steak) and fed it to him. I weaned both my kids from the bottle at 1 year, and then you start to feed them on a schedule like yourself. My son was a little harder to transition to the sippy cup, but they learn.

D., below is some information I got out of one of my baby magazines. Hope it helps. What I do personally with my 10 month old is... he eats 3 main meals a day, with 2 snack times, once in the afternoon & then again before bedtime. He has a bottle in the morning, we offer him juice & milk in a cup at lunch, and then he has a bottle at bedtime. I would suggest increasing his milk consumption because I don't think 12 ounces a day in enough. Good luck with everything.

# of feedings: Solid feedings 3 times a day and 2-3
finger food snacks.
Formula: 20 to 30oz daily
Vegetables: Cooked vegetables 3-4 times daily
Fruits: Fresh fruit peeled or canned fruit 2-3
times daily
Fruit Juices: Offered in a cup 2-4 oz. once
daily. (No tomato juice till 12 months)
Protein foods: Tofu, cheese, yogurt, Small, tender pieces
of chicken, lean meat.. 3-4 TBS twice daily
Cereals/Breads: Noodles, rice, mashed potatoes, 1/4 slice of
bread, 2 crackers, formula or breast milk
added to cereal; 6-8 TBS, once daily

Hi it's sounds like what your already doing is great. That's pretty much what I did with mine. I stopped the bottle with both of my kids on thier first birthday's. It wasn't easy they cried at night for the first few days but after that it was back to normal. I introduced a sipy cup about a month before i got rid of the bottle. Mine loved dry cheerio's and animal crackers. But mostly they had the stages from Gerber. ( i think that's what it' called). Good luck and I hope you find something that works.