Food times five

The baby is on five meals of solids a day.

Breakfast is usually a weetbix with milk (microwaved for 15 seconds) - only enough milk to make the weetbix mushy, as we've received conflicting advice as to whether it is okay for a baby to have cows milk before they're one year old (I believe that as it is not being drunk, nor is it her main 'milk' then it's not a problem). We were giving her either the Rafferty's or Farex mixed with cooled boiled water, but she eats at least 1/4 cup dry, so she was powering through the bags. I also try to give her fruit with her breakfast.

She has morning tea now too - either a Baby Mum-Mum rusk, an arrowroot biscuit, or a homemade apple muffin.

She has lunch, which is either a serve of bought jar food or a serve of homemade food. She will also usually have a baby yoghurt with lunch,

She has afternoon tea - again, one of the three morning tea options.

Dinner is either bought food or home made food (depending on what is in the freezer - this weekend I had made three recipes but two were fish and I didn't want her eating tonnes of fish all day) and usually a piece of toast, maybe some custard or some cheese.

I try to make sure she has grains, fruit, veg, dairy and meat each day.

She has started to demand this food now too. Our day is starting between 7-8:30am as even after a milk feed she is grumbly and ready to eat. And the same happens at dinner time.

I have been still demand feeding her, but had been trying to breastfeed her before I head out places, to avoid having to do it while we were out or her getting grumpt. But the other day she went from 7:30 - 12:30 before she even started to grumble for a milk feed, so I need to let her demand it rather than force it on her (if only she'd stop demanding it overnight!).