Questions:
-When your 1 year-old switches to milk, do you warm it up first or just give it to them cold?
-How do you keep the milk fresh when you're out and about? I still give her a bottle a church.
-How often did/does your 1 year-old take a bottle? How much milk?
-What have you found to be good meals for a one-year-old? Good snacks?
Thanks!
Monday, November 10, 2008
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I have been wondering the same things! I'm glad you asked, I will have to peek at the answers!
I did find a sippy cut that was like a thermos, so it keeps milk cold. I have been wondering about that too.
I give him bottles of formula at church, it's easier. He's still working on the sippy cup.
I'm trying to make the transition because I hear it's easier when it's sooner.
I just give it to him cold (mostly because I'm too lazy to warm it up), he doesn't mind.
I did get some juice boxes (Motts makes some for toddlers that aren't 100% juice because they are watered down. Less sugar.) I gave it a little squeeze when the straw was in his mouth, so he learned how to use a straw just today that way!
I asked my pediatrician about how much milk he should be getting. He said between 10-12 oz a day. He also said I could give him a vitamin if I wanted, because formula was laced with vitamins, and milk isn't.
What are you doing with Lucy. I'm just making this up as I go!
I would love to hear about some snacks and meals too.
I got to thinking,
Brigham eats oatmeal, cottage cheese, yogurt, frozen berries and veggies pretty consistently. Then I usually give him pieces of whatever we have for dinner.
It's my struggle. What to feed him.
Some of this is a personal thing but I'll answer what I did.
1. I never warmed up the milk but put it in a sippy cup. I figured he'd be drinking milk cold for the rest of his life anyway.
2. As for keeping it fresh, there are insulated bags that go inside a diaper bag. Many women use them to keep bottles hot so they can also be used to keep milk cool. You could even get cool packs to put in it if you want.
3. I don't remember how much milk he took but it wasn't any more than two sippy cups. I tried to get him to drink a lot of water too (we were in AZ during the summer) plus I read that too much milk inhibits the iron absorption.
4. Brendan's favorite snacks were the fruit puffs by Gerber or Cheerios. He also liked cut up vegetables and graham cracker, goldfish and cheese. As for meals he had a lot of pastas. He is not a big meat eater but I bet you could try things like chicken nuggets or fish sticks (cut up of course). Try looking at gerber.com for ideas or at parents.com.
Hope that helps. I mostly tried to give him a variety of foods so that we wouldn't have a really picky eater later.
We always start by warming the milk. Especially at night. Our kids are big milk drinkers and usually take 20-24ozs of milk a day. We transition them to a sippy cup during a day and a bottle at night. As for being out and about, I don't worry too much about keeping it cold. Milk can withstand being out for a while. I wouldn't leave it in the car in the summer, but in a diaper bag at church I wouldn't worry about it. My four kids have survived it!
We always start giving our kids table foods so they adapt to what we are eating. For snacks fish crackers, cheese (cut small), lunch meat (diced), pieces of fruit.
looks like most of your ?s have been answered already, but i'll give my two cents at least on food anyway...
*go have some fun at whole foods or good earth--you will find a ton of healthy snacks for little ones--pirates bootie, veggie straws, dehydrated bananas (they mostly just suck on them--they look nasty, but claire loved them!)
*yogurt, graham crackers, cheese or sandwich meat cut up small
*claire loved mac n cheese! and i'd mix in peas and carrots (good for fine motor too) canned grean beans are also really easy to eat, and all of these were okay even before she had a full mouth of teeth.
*scrambled eggs, cut up ravioli in a little tomato sauce, some kids like mashed potatoes and oatmeal and cottage cheese (claire's weird about textures so she didn't do any of those but others do)
*bread, nutrigain bars, lots of dry cereals, and cut up avacado, bananas, strawberries, peeled and cut up grapes, and claired used to like tofu at that age
(as an FWI, claire and her cousin both had a tough adjustment--constipation, diarreah--from breast milk to whole milk and both of our drs recommended whole lactaid for the first few months, so if lucy has any trouble there's an option)
I'm glad that I'm learning about this stuff now, before I'm even pregnant! I had no idea that feeding a child was this complicated. I just thought you put it in front of them, and if they eat it, great. If they don't, then try something else. I'm going to be a terrible parent.
So many different ways to do it. I started out by warming the milk up for Kate. She wouldn't drink it cold at first. Then I slowly warmed it up a little less each time until she was fine with it cold. If Lucy will take it cold it saves a lot of havoc when your out. I used to carry a little cooler around with me when we were out. At church I would sneak to the kitchen to warm it up. The faster they will take it cold the better. It's hard sometimes to find a place to warm it up. (Like Disneyland. Did you know that there aren't any microwaves in the whole park. They're not allowed). I think she should still be taking 20 oz of milk a day. Kate would drink mostly in the mornings, before naps, and at bedtimes.
Good meals and snacks are tricky, especially if you have a picky eater. Sometimes you just have to go by trial and error. I used to give Kate a lot of cut up lunch meats, cheeses, and bananas. She never liked those little pre-packaged toddler meals. She eats a lot better (or I should say a lot more variety) now that she's almost 2. Cherrios, fruit puffs, anything small and easy to pack works great as snacks.
Whitney was hard cause she ate so little, I was always trying to get her to eat. But when I went to milk I just gave it to her in a sippy cup instead of a bottle, and she picked up on it. I just gave it to her cold. And I didn't worry about it too much during church. But long trips and hot days out and about are different. I would just carry water or juice boxes. But I found out about this company called Gossner's that sells milk in juice size boxes that doesn't require refrigeration. They're out of Logan/Smithfield area. I honestly can't remember how often she drank milk, I tried to give her cup at snack and meal times, or when she asked. I know everyone has a different amount, but I think somewhere around 16 ounces is good for a day.
For meals and snacks, Whitney did eat a lot of spaghetti, especially the macaroni shaped noodles. Also macaroni and cheese with veggies mixed in, cheese cubes, yogurt, deli meats cut up, crackers, fish crackers, and she did like the toddler meals you buy. Chicken nuggets are also good. But she was allergic to eggs, some babies still are sensitive at that age. She's kind of outgrown it now.
Anyway, good luck!
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