So Rhyan is in the process of coming off the bottle. She's down to one bottle a day now and the rest of the day she drinks whole milk or water from a sippy cup. She's doing well, although she doesnt love the milk to be cold. She'll get used to it, but for now we warm a nightly bottle and give cold milk the rest of the day. She's also been transitioning to table food recently and I wanted to record what she ate today as its quite typical lately and I want to remember. I also want to remind her when she's older that she ate us out of house and home from the beginning :-)
Breakfast: offer sippy of whole milk
whole egg, scrambled
piece of toast, buttered
3-4 mandarin orange slices, cut up
Lunch: offer sippy of whole milk
greber graduates veggie pasta (she ate half)
6 oz blueberry yogurt
1/2 a cup of pineapple tidbits, drained
Snack: offer sippy of whole milk
gerber cereal/fruit bar (she ate almost all of it)
Dinner: 3-4 oz of water, 2-3 oz milk
1/4 turkey burger
2 tsp purple hull peas
3 tsp macaroni and cheese
10-12 bites of cantaloupe
6-8 bites of cheese
With each mealtime, i have to just quit feeding her. We havent hit a point with table food where she refuses it on her own. She always did with baby food, but i guess she REALLY loves table food. I mean, really, she cant NEED more than what she's getting! Are yall seeing those portion sizes? Keep in mind that for a child, one teaspoon per year of age equals a serving in each category. She gets 2-3 times that much, sometimes! HA! She is LOVING feeding herself and we let her do this for almost all foods.
She's getting about 8-1 oz of whole milk in her sippy during doing the day and drinks one bottle at night of 6-8 ounces of whole milk, too.
She is completely off of formula by default. We ran out :-( Oh, well... its only a week or so "early". Our ped. said the only reason to keep them on formula for the entire first year is b/c there are more vitamins and nutrients in it that they dont get in whole milk but that as long as her diet was varied and had plenty of nutrients, not to worry. My only concern now is how much water to offer. My first priority is getting her to drinking more milk out of her sippy so we can drop the night bottle. I'm thinking that i should offer NO water until she's doing good w/ the sippy. I know she's not getting dehydrated as long as she's getting the night bottle, anyways.. any advice on that is welcomed :-)
I cant wait to see what her stats are next friday for her one year check up!
