What is your food/milk routine for your 12m old in 24 hrs??

[Ginger1002]

Hi,

I have 12m old twins and I was just curious as to what food/milk amounts you give to them in a day and when. How much milk should a 12m old be having? Also, they seem to have a cows milk intolerance so am currently giving them soy milk on their brekky, but do I introduce this as their main milk drink instead of formula or carry on with formula. It is getting really exxy on formula all the time so would like to switch, but not sure how. Do you recommend I get advice from health nurse/GP first or just go ahead and switch?

Also, they still have bottles during the day and am not sure when I should begin to drop those. They don't drink very much milk (120ml) at each sitting so can't cram it all into a couple of bottles, hence why they still have bottles during the day.

Advice would be great!
Ginger

[Ginger1002]

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[Ladybugz]

Hello! My DD is 14 months old and I just started to gradually introduce cows milk so like the first time I tried it was bout 10ish, (incase tummy ache and stuff) but was all good so in the end just fully stopped on formula and she still has bout 4 bots aday with about 200 mls each time just depends on what were doing. She will normally eat breakky,porrige/ yogurt ect and then graze all day maybe have something for lunch an a decent dins. All kids are different! :)
And it is soo much better her being on normal milk now !cheaper :) hope this is of some advice or an insight


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[Savingfishfromdrowning]

My DD is 14 months. At 12 months she was down to one breastfeed a day and had three meals. She would not, and still won't, drink milk or formula, I just compensate by giving her more dairy in her daily diet (yoghurt, cheese etc.). She now has no breastfeeds, three meals and a snack and is thriving :yes:

You could probably start eliminating bottles any time now, at 12 months it should be more about food than milk anyway.

Sorry, can't help with the dairy/soy issue.

Good luck

[MissWinter]

My DD is just 12mo and this is how our day goes (on a normal day, she's sick atm, so certainly not going this way). This is also what we changed it FROM:

It WAS:
Breaky (whatever she would eat, normally only 1/2 piece of toast, maybe 1/2 a weetbix or some yoghurt)
180ml formula bottle in bed at naptime
Snack (maybe a Bega Junior cheese stick or something small like that - sometimes only 1/2 eaten)
Lunch (Sometimes 1/2 sandwich, or a packet of small rafferty's garden meat puree)
180ml formula bottle at naptime
Small snack (a few bits of apple or pear, a strawberry or two, or cheese or yoghurt)
Dinner (either approx 1-1 1/2 cups or dinner - meat w/ vege stir fry, a bit of meat w/ vege mash or a rafferty's garden dinner packet).
180ml formula bottle at bedtime, more if unsettled

This is what it is now:
Breakfast (1 piece of toast, Uncle Toby's oat packet w/ 1 cup cows milk)
Approx 150ml bottle of cows milk having "quiet time" with Mummy (if she agrees)
Sleep
Snack (a Bega cheese stick, piece of fruit, muesli bar)
Lunch (Normally dinner leftovers, same as above lunch or dinner)
Approx 150ml cows milk again, if she'll take it
Sleep
Snack (as above)
Dinner (same dinner as above)
Appx 1 cup of yoghurt
150ml cows milk again if she'll take it
Bed

If she wakes up in bed these days, she gets a bottle of water. We've been told by our Dr (who is great) to phase out formula now (she's 11kg and 76cm so about 90th %ile) and bottles altogether (for speech development and mouth development) by 18 months.

HTH :)

[newmummy2010]

Babies 6-12mnths should have 600ml milk per day, substitute with dairy products if necessary,no low-fat products until 2yrs old.

Cows milk can be used in cooking and on cereal from 6 months.

Over 1yr babies need 400ml milk per days. If the child is a fussy eater formula can be continued incase they arent getting all necessary iron and vitamins.

Unless ur child is overweight you shouldnt give low fat foods til after 5yrs old.

Source:Mum to 1yr old and 'Annabel Karmels New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner 2008'

[joalisha]

I have a 12 month old DD, I started her on cows milk about 1week ago, so our daily food/bottle is : breaky 7am, 1 weetbix with milk, 1 piece of toast, morning tea, biscuit then warm bottle, off for nap, lunch pasta or veggies or chicken nuggets, avro snack, fruit, mandarin, apple, banana or rockmelon then bottle! Dinner what ever we eating then maybe dessert and bottle and bed! She prob only having about 800mls a day!

[trishalishous]

our day goes
8ish up and b00b
1 cup of porridge (and a bite of whatever I eat for brekkie)
10ish b00b
fruit and a biscuit/museli bar
sandwich/leftovers for lunch
b00b and sleep
sandwich/fruit for afternoon tea
a small serve of whatever we have for dinner
fruit and yoghurt for dessert
b00b before bed around 9ish
lately a nightfeed
she always has a cup of puffed corn to nibble on as well

[Just*Ace]

My 13 month old DD is not eating much at all :( she also won't drink from a cup or bottle, the only liquid she gets is breastmilk (I really want her to drink from something else!)
7:30am breastfeed
8:30am 1.5 weetbix mushed with milk and a tub of yoghurt
10:30 breastfeed
1pm small bowl of mashed vegies and meat or mashed spag Bol/shepherds pie, 1 bowl of rice cereal made with milk
2:30 breastfeed
5:30 small bowl of mash, tub of yoghurt
7pm breastfeed
11pm I dream feed her

We are trying to introduce finger foods and cups but she just isn't interested :( and only has 3 teeth that she won't use to chew!

[Von Zipper]

DS is almost 15 months old, but his routine hasn't changed much since 12 months except that we have FINALLY gotten him on to cow's milk - he would only take newborn formula till 14 months old!!

A typical day:

7:30am - Baby muesli with puree fruit and milk
9:30am - 250ml milk
10:00am - Cut up fruit
12:30pm - Pasta with napolitana sauce, chicken mince and diced veg + yoghurt
3:30pm - 250ml milk
4:30pm - Biscuit (if he wants it, sometimes he does sometimes he doesn't)
6:00pm - Sausage, mashed pumpkin, mashed potato and diced veg + custard (if he wants it)
7:30pm - 250ml milk

And if he wakes overnight, another 250mls of milk.

TBH though, he doesn't eat much during the day. Probably should cut the milk back!

[MeetTheBluths]

DS is 11 months and I have been wondering this myself - time to cut down on the bottles and he has let me know by not finishing his bottles all the time.

However bottle time is so soothing for him since I stopped breast-feeding, and I hate to take it away from him completely, even though he's now drinking cows milk too.

It's a hard one, I'm struggling with this one too. It's a big milestone in a way and it's hard!

But honestly, bubs don't need formula at all after 6 months if breastfed or around 9 months if formula fed, so don't worry from a dietary point of view.

[Girl X]

I changed DD to cows milk at 12mths, replacing one bottle per day and building up from there. I read somewhere that 3 cups a day (750ml total) was the ideal, but she usually drinks less than that. She happily drinks from a cup during the day, but still wants a bottle first thing/ last thing.

So...

7am 250ml cows milk in bottle

8.30am Breakfast - usually wheat cereal mixed with milk or yoghurt + fruit (banana or pear)

12pm Lunch - present her with lots of options, of which she eats very little, including: mandarin, bread, vitawheats, cheese (she ALWAYS eats the cheese - loves it), grapes, watermelon, pineapple, peanut butter on rusks, raisins, carrot, 250ml cows milk in cup

4.30pm Dinner - varies, but things involving beef mince, pasta, and tomato sauce are her favourites. On a good day will eat a whole serve, but usually anything from a few mouthfuls to half of the serve.

5pm - 250ml cows milk in bottle and then immediately to bed

Snacks offered during the day from those things listed under 'lunch' + rusks.

She's not a big eater, so most days will eat a good breakfast, loves cheese and yoghurt, and everything else is a bit hit or miss. But she's healthy and growing, so nothing to worry about at the moment.

[KandBs Mumma]

My 13 month old DD is not eating much at all :( she also won't drink from a cup or bottle, the only liquid she gets is breastmilk (I really want her to drink from something else!)
7:30am breastfeed
8:30am 1.5 weetbix mushed with milk and a tub of yoghurt
10:30 breastfeed
1pm small bowl of mashed vegies and meat or mashed spag Bol/shepherds pie, 1 bowl of rice cereal made with milk
2:30 breastfeed
5:30 small bowl of mash, tub of yoghurt
7pm breastfeed
11pm I dream feed her

We are trying to introduce finger foods and cups but she just isn't interested :( and only has 3 teeth that she won't use to chew!

I know your frustration re the cups!! My DD (12 months) wouldnt drink from any cup at all until about a month ago. I tried about 8 different types of cups and finally we have settled on a sports sipper by Tommee Tippee (no straw $10 approx) and a straw sipper by Tommee Tippee ($10 approx) aswell. We use the sports sipper for milk drinks and the straw sipper for water (just because I dont want to try cleaning milk from the straw...) just keep trying it will happen :)

Our daily routine is:

7am wake up
7.30am breaky- 1 piece of toast and a Rafertys Garden fruit squeeze
8.30am 200ml formula
10.30ish snack- handfull of nutrigrain/ cheese stick/ slice or 2 of fruit and water
12ish lunch- sandwich w fruit/ left over dinner/ cheerios x4 and cheese and water
1pm sleep until between 2.30 and 3pm
3ish afternoon tea- what ever Daddy is eating (he gets home form work at 2.45pm and its all about him at that time- mum sucks by then haha) and water
5.30pm Dinner- what ever we are eating and maybe a Rafertys fruit squeeze (depending on how much she has eaten)
6pm bath then books
6.30pm 200ml milk
7pm bed

She has only just gone down to 1 sleep a day and I want to slowly introduce cows milk but so far each time I have tried she hasnt drunk it... do I just keep trying?

[jadee22]

My ds isn't interested in cows milk either. I'm bf though. I've been putting it in a tupperware sipper cup which he will drink water out of but not milk.

His routine:
630: bf
730: toast with vegemite or some cheerios
10am: piece of Apple or peaches. Sipper cup of water
1230: cold meat, corn, pineapple, tomato OR a sandwich. Bf
1-3pm: sleep
330: Yoghurt Or arrowroot biscuit Or rafferties garden baked Apple stick. Bf
6pm:dinner... meat n veges with rice... whatever we r having
630/7: bath
730: Bf. bed



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[Chicky Pea]

At DD's 12 month appointment, my MHN said now she is 12 months, no formula and no bottles... starting now! :eek:

We are slowly working towards that. She is so used to her sippy cups being full of water she is not overly impressed when it's full of milk! So I have started giving her water in straw cups only, sticking with bottles for milk for the time being, then when she finally has lost all memory of sippy cups, I will give her one full of milk... and she'll drink it. That's the dream plan anyway!! :laughing:

But her day looks like this...

8am - Brekkie - kids weet bix with some muesli and apple puree, with cows milk and a straw cup of water.

9.30am - Bottle of cows milk - about 100mls

10.30am Snack - rice crackers or mandarin or rusk or toast or cheese sticks, usually 2 of these.

12pm - lunch - tuna and cheesey mash, or soup and some bread, or scrambled eggs with ham, mushrooms, cheese etc. Straw cup of water.

1pm - Sleep, on a good day about an hour and 20 mins, sometimes only 40 mins :(

3pm - Bottle of cows milk - about 100 mls

4pm - Snack - Same options as before

6pm - Dinner - Chicken/vege puree with pasta, spag bol, noodles, with fruit and yogurt, straw cup of water

7pm - Bath

7.30pm - Bottle - At the moment it's a mixed feed (about 100mls of cows milk, 100mls of formula) as she didn't react well to going straight to a full milk feed before bed, but I'm slowly upping the ratio til it's only cows milk :)

8pm - Bedtime!! :fingerscrossed:

Also, my MHN said that if she is getting some cheese, some yogurt and 250mls of milk, then that is enough for 1 day :yes: