What Lil Girls Are Made Of

One of my girlfriends recently figured out that she might not be feeding her daughter the right stuff. She took a look at my daughter and said... now that's a healthy kid. So she asked what I feed my daughter. So this is a typical day in the mouth of my 9 month old.

Get up at 6 am (give or take 30 minutes) and have 1/4 of oatmeal mixed with 1/2 of a stage 2 Gerber packet of fruit (prunes w/ apples or apples w/ blueberries or bananas usually).

7 am 4 oz formula bottle before nap (Infamil Lipil)

after nap (9 ish??) snack on crackers (graham, gold fish, animal or sometimes ritz) and have 2 oz of juice mixed with 2 oz of water.

ok here is where it gets tricky. If (like now) we are teething we'll take another nap at 10:30 and lunch will be after it, in which case we have a 4 oz formula bottle before that nap. IF NOT then we stay up until 11:30 and have lunch...

11:30 or 12:30 (lunch depending on nap schedule) 1 Gerber Graduate lunch... usually pasta pickups and some fruit (standard diced peaches by Del Monte) or some of what I'm having if it's something she can eat.

2 pm (if she didn't take her nap until after lunch we would have that same 4 oz bottle now).

3 ish... afternoon snack. String cheese and fruit or string cheese and crackers or sometimes just string cheese and some juice... but usually string cheese and something.

4:30 ish my daughter starts to melt down...usually we do a 4 oz bottle now to keep her calm till dinner.

5-5:30 dinner... she eats what we eat. I supplement with fruit or veggies from Gerber as needed if we're having something not kid friendly. Which is rare lately.

6:30 4 oz bottle

7 pm bed

Since she was introduced to them this weekend. We've also added Gerber Cereal Bars with Fruit to our diet. Sometimes those replace a snack or are an extra snack if one is needed.

The main thing with my daughter is we play by her schedule for the most part. I know some people that are VERY rigid about food times, nap times etc. We are NOT those people. Snacks can always be had if you're hungry, an extra bottle is usually allowed, and meals can move as much as an hour an any direction if we're out of the house.

We are also very good about letting Layla eat until SHE stops eating. She's never had to clean her plate AND she's never had to stop because she'd already had one graham cracker. We'll just replace unhealthy snacks with things like Bananas if she wants to keep going.

Good luck!