I have searched the archives and mostly found laundry lists of WHAT folks' young toddlers eat (apples, sausage, bread, quinoa, blah blah), but I'm wondering more about quantity.
Mine has always loved solids since we introduced them right at 6 months via BLW. She gagged a little at first, but not a ton, and has always liked most everything we've introduced, which is almost anything you can think of-- or if not at first, then pretty quickly.
She just doesn't eat much at a time.
Now, she's thriving and still nursing plenty (probably 4-7x/day and usually 1x in the middle of the night), so I'm not worried about her weight/nutrition/development or anything like that, but I do have ulterior motives.
1) In the next 6-12 months, I would like to go back on some medication I used to use (so, probably gentle mother-led weaning) and, to a much lesser extent...
2) The more solid her poops, the easier they are to catch (we do EC and she is awesome at telling us she needs to pee, but is a pretty stealth pooper-- however, when her poops are more solid, it's more obvious she's gearing up to poop and we can swoop her over to the potty)
Miss L is offered what we are eating about 2-3x/day, and "snackies" (mostly pure freeze-dried fruit and veg) here and there. She probably ingests about 1/4-1/2 cup of snackies per day, and at a meal, will eat a couple Tbsp at most of whatever... Maybe more at times. Nothing is spoon-fed and it's pretty much impossible to even place a bite into her mouth. She's had 8 teeth for a long time, no molars yet, but they're surely coming soon.
I DON'T want to and will not start forcing food into my kid or anything, but am wondering if this is one of those things that will go like, "At 12 months, she hardly ate solids, but by 15 months, she was eating a whole sandwich at every meal!" And I'm also wondering if I should be attempting to feed her solids before breastmilk more consistently-- that sort of thing.
So... what does/did your 12-month-old eat in terms of solids (volume)? And how did that change from 12-18 months? Thanks!
Mine has always loved solids since we introduced them right at 6 months via BLW. She gagged a little at first, but not a ton, and has always liked most everything we've introduced, which is almost anything you can think of-- or if not at first, then pretty quickly.
She just doesn't eat much at a time.
Now, she's thriving and still nursing plenty (probably 4-7x/day and usually 1x in the middle of the night), so I'm not worried about her weight/nutrition/development or anything like that, but I do have ulterior motives.
1) In the next 6-12 months, I would like to go back on some medication I used to use (so, probably gentle mother-led weaning) and, to a much lesser extent...
2) The more solid her poops, the easier they are to catch (we do EC and she is awesome at telling us she needs to pee, but is a pretty stealth pooper-- however, when her poops are more solid, it's more obvious she's gearing up to poop and we can swoop her over to the potty)
Miss L is offered what we are eating about 2-3x/day, and "snackies" (mostly pure freeze-dried fruit and veg) here and there. She probably ingests about 1/4-1/2 cup of snackies per day, and at a meal, will eat a couple Tbsp at most of whatever... Maybe more at times. Nothing is spoon-fed and it's pretty much impossible to even place a bite into her mouth. She's had 8 teeth for a long time, no molars yet, but they're surely coming soon.
I DON'T want to and will not start forcing food into my kid or anything, but am wondering if this is one of those things that will go like, "At 12 months, she hardly ate solids, but by 15 months, she was eating a whole sandwich at every meal!" And I'm also wondering if I should be attempting to feed her solids before breastmilk more consistently-- that sort of thing.
So... what does/did your 12-month-old eat in terms of solids (volume)? And how did that change from 12-18 months? Thanks!