Diet for 8-Month Old

I'd throw in a little snack around 2pm or around 7pm...or both. It seems like there is a lot of puree in his diet. At 8 months there are many more finger foods they can mash up. You can also buy a mesh feeder that you can put pieces of fruit in it for them to gnaw on. Banana pieces, peas, rice (not cereal), cheese, VERY well steamed carrots (make sure they are very soft from steaming just like if you bought them in a can), pieces of macaroni pasta, pastini with cream cheese mixed in, soft bread with cream cheese on it. Those little guys can munch on much more then we give them credit for. Maybe he's just read for more serious food. You're lucky!! Our daughter has been a picky eater from day one. We come up with all kinds of ideas that she rejects. LOL

C. I'm sorry but unless your 8 month old is very over weight I don't see a need for a diet. You could get 2 outcomes from this. The first, he could be a little chunky now and once he starts walking and running around going to the park and playing in the yard he will burn all that off. The second (from expierence) he'll have the weight now and it will start to even off all by itself as he grows. I was that way, when I was 6 months, I weighed 23 pound's but I slimmed down. Most of my family was like that. Plus he's a boy, boy's are more active than girl's. So don't stress it right now. Let him be a baby and enjoy that baby while it last's. Good luck!!!!!

C.,

Is he a chubby baby? He may just be more interested in table food. My oldest was off baby food by the time he was 10 months old.

My 9 1/2 month old now eats breakfast at around 9 which is usually about the size of a stage 2 food plus a little juice with a lot of water. He nurses at around 10:30 and then naps. At 1 pm he has lunch which is usally some Gerber Oatmeal (just enough to fill the bottom of a snack bowl) mixed with a fruit or veggie. He usually has the same amount of watered down juice with his lunch. He nurses again at around 3 and goes down for a nap. At 5 he has dinner which is usually a Stage 3 food and generally it is one half to a whole jar depending on what flavor it is today. Again, same drink. I gather he has about 3 ouces of juice a day during his meals and the rest is water with it. He nurses again at around 7 and goes down for bed at around 8. Then he gets up usually around when I go to bed at about 1 am to nurse again and then he's done until he gets up and nurses at around 7 when we get up to start our day. For snack he has Cheerios or frozen banana in a safe feeder.

HTH,
L.

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Hi There
I have a daughter who is almost 8 months old. For the last 2 months I have been trying to follow the Super Baby Food Diet plan. It is a book that I purchased from Barnes & Noble.
It gives you a daily menu for each age (6 months, 7, 8, etc).
I would suggest going to B&N to browse the book and see if it would help you.

Hope this helps!

Our daughter, now 1, was solely on table food by 8 months...she loves everything...raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, mango, kiwi, avacado, prickly pear, mandarin oranges, lima beans, peas, sqaush, carrots, spinach, turkey, chicken, all sorts of stuff...obviously everything is cooked to soft, soft consistency and cut up in small pieces she can manage...but these are a few things...oh, and the lima beans I had to take out of the little pod thing-y.

We were blessed with good, non-fussy eaters, thank God!

IMO - stay away from the processed junk!
HTH,
J.

According to everything I have read (I have an 8 month old girl) an 8-10 month old should have 24-32 oz of formula/breastmilk, 4 tbsp or more of cereal/grains, 4 tbsp or more of vegetables, 4 tbsp or more of fruit, 1 tbsp of meat and 4 oz of water, if you want to give juice make it 100% and dilute it not giving more than 4-6 oz. As to when and what foods to add I like the website wholesomebabyfood.com.

my son is 11 months but has followed this diet for a few months:
bfast 730/8- 4 oz breastmilk (or formula) mixed with 1/2 cup oatmeal cereal mixed with container gerber fruit - also likes to feed himself toast with butter and grape jelly

snack 10/10:30-30ish sliced up bannana or some cheese or cheerios in whole milk (just give him the cheerios not the milk)

lunch noon - 4 oz breastmilk (or formula) mixed with 1/2 cup cereal mixed with 1 heaping tbsp of chicken or pork ( I puree all my own meats/veggies). also 1 tbsp of veggie and he likes to feed himself 1 slice of grilled cheese

snack 3 pm(ish) - same snack as above or sliced avocado, mashed up mango, mashed up fruit

dinner - 1 heaping tbsp of veggie and basically any kind of meat dish, spaghetti and meatballs ( i use ground turkey), meatloaf, pork, mashed potatos, pizza..

you can feed him anything really at that age! we just gave my son baked beans this past weekend at a BBQ and he loved them! Gave him pizza on friday night to try and he devoured that too! let him explore different tastes and textures and have fun with it! good luck! D.

Around that time was when I started letting my baby "sample" off of my plate. She got lots of teeth pretty early, so she could chew up lots of things from our plates. There's no allergies in the family, so I wasn't as careful about what I added to her diet when (except holding off on honey and peanut butter until 12 months.) She loved pasta, white rice (really messy, but fun!). She also LOVED corn on the cob. I would give her the cob after I was finished eating it, and she would gnaw out the bits of corn still left. The only thing she had trouble with was LONG things...she would gag on those.

Are you using whole grains? I find that the Barley cereal holds them longer. Also, you could boil pearled barley and make little salads & stuff. And personally, I've been putting rice cereal in every one of my daughter's bottles for quite a few months now (she's also 8 months).

But consider yourself super blessed! I WISH she ate as much as your son eats, WOW! She's never been a big eater, period. Good job with him!

Have you heard of the Super Baby Food book by Ruth Yarron? I'm using it with my 7 month old and she's devouring food as well. It goes month by month until a year and then offers tons of ideas for toddlers. It's whole, healthy food that you make right in your own kitchen. It hasn't been taking me much time at all, and it's so inexpensive compared to buying commercial baby foods. For now, I'd try adding avocado to your son's diet. It's so good for him and may satiate his hunger. You simply cut off a chunk, peel it, mash it up with a fork and feed it to him. Or, you can leave little chunks if he's self feeding. Store the rest in a plastic baggy and refrigerate until next time. Make sure it's nice a ripe first by leaving it on the counter. Then put it in the fridge so it won't continue to ripen.
If this is repetitive I apologize, as I haven't read through your responses. Good luck!