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

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!