So DD is 9 months and I'm worried that I'm feeding her portions that are much too big. Well, I wasn't worried til I got her weighed and while I don't think she's enormously heavy - she weighs 19lb at 39 weeks - she has gone from the 9th to approaching the 75th centile since we started weaning
For lunch she'll have maybe one and a half slices of bread for things like cheese on toast or eggy bread. If I give her chicken goujons then I'll give her half a chicken breast cut into strips though I know she'd eat more if I offered it. For dinner it's mostly pasta in homemade tomato/veggie sauce and she can eat loads of it. Like 15-20 adult pasta spirals, and I think she'd keep going if I gave her more. She doesn't so much chew it as inhale it... Afterwards I usually give her yoghurt with stewed fruit or a squirt of Ella's Kitchen stuff and she has a normal-sized Yeo Valley plain yoghurt for that. Snacks are maybe 2 rice cakes a day, or 1 of those Ella's Kitchen biscuits.
Are all these portions too big? I was working on the assumption I should feed her til she stops wanting any more but is that the wrong way to do it? She's cut right back on her milk and now only has about 100-120mls at 7am, 2.30pm and bedtime (plus a dreamfeed which I daren't drop).
Oh, and she's not tall either - only on the 9th centile for height.
Any advice gratefully received!
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Frenchsticker · 25/10/2013 19:53
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