Lauren (2m 3s):

Typically I'll have a bottle. First thing or nurse first thing in the morning, he'll eat a solid breakfast before daycare. He'll typically then have another bottle right before lunch. He'll have lunch. Have another bottle in the afternoon. Have the solid dinner when he gets home.

Katie Ferraro (2m 18s):

Hey there I'm Katie Ferraro, Registered Dietitian, college nutrition, professor and mom of seven specializing in baby led weaning. Here on the baby led weaning made easy podcast. I help you strip out all of the noise and nonsense about feeding, leading you with the competence and knowledge. You need to give your baby a safe start to solid foods using baby led weaning. Hey guys, welcome back. I've got an episode for the moms and dads, parents, and caregivers of babies who are 10 and 11 months old. I'm going to be sharing some sample baby at Led Weaning schedules. Sorry about my voice. I'm struggling hard. I get laryngitis like once a year.

Katie Ferraro (2m 59s):

It's all in a really vine on the podcast right now. So this is a cool episode because I have 20 different moms who called in with their schedule. So you guys don't have to listen to me. You can listen to these moms. I just did an episode episode, 187. That was eight to nine Months Old Babies. And an episode 185 is six to seven month old babies. I'm sharing different sample. Baby led, weaning feeding schedules inside each of those. So this episode is for like the ones who were jamming, hopefully 10 to 11 month old babies. Now I personally love storytelling. I love you guys telling your stories. I love these 20 moms who are sharing their stories. It's going to move pretty quickly. I'll interject a little bit in between just to give a little bit of feedback. Cause some of them actually emailed me separately.

Katie Ferraro (3m 39s):

Like, is this good? Is this wrong? Most of you guys are doing awesome. I just wanna remind you that the, we provide other family schedules and share about what's working for them to give you ideas of what your babies can do, but I don't provide any of this for comparison. Okay? I don't want you to think your baby has to do the same thing because to be honest, there's no wrong way to schedule your baby's meals. So what's a little bit different about 10 to 11 month old babies. All right, we're going into the last part of infancy. I know they're always going to be her baby, but technically infancy ends at 12 months of age or we're working towards a few feeding goals right by 12 months, which is our goal and where we're going with Baby Led Weaning. We want baby sitting in their chair at the table with the rest of the family, eating modified versions of the same foods.

Katie Ferraro (4m 21s):

The rest of the family does now your older baby at 10 and 11 months of age, they're starting to respond to hunger at this age. Okay? Early on, we don't feed hunger. You might need to drop a second milk feed. I usually would drop the first milk feed around eight months or so. Some of you will be really weaning off the bottle as you get through 10 and 11 months of age, some of the moms in today's episode, we're getting really specific about what they need to be doing regarding bottle and open cup feeding. Another thing for this each you want to make sure you've gotten through the allergenic foods. Okay? The protective window, where we introduce allergenic foods early to help prevent food allergy. It appears to close at around the 11 month mark. So take a look at your a hundred FIRST FOODS list.

Katie Ferraro (5m 3s):

Have you done all nine of the allergenic foods? If not, it's time to ramp it up, make sure you get through those allergenic foods and then continue to offer them in the future for your baby as well. But we definitely want to get those first few exposures in another thing about the 10 to 11 month age mark open cup babies should be getting a little bit more proficient. Our goal by 12 months of age, we'd like to see your baby start transitioning off the bottle. Around 12 months of age. I always say I never get to it until about month 13 or 14. There's a lot going on the one-year mark, but we don't want your baby on the bottle for much longer than that. So practice with that open cup so that they can be drinking independently out of their open cup. By the time they turned 12 months, I'll be it with a little spillage. And I know you guys are getting pressure and temptation to do snacks.

Katie Ferraro (5m 44s):

A lot of our moms today are sharing about snacks. Stand your ground. You do not have to offer your baby snacks. We're sharing some reasons when snacks might be appropriate or warranted from some of the moms situations today, but it's totally fine for you to say this is a snack free household. My 10 to 11 month old eats three meals a day. And the snacks in between meals are my babies milk feeds. This is news to you, or you want to learn more about running a snack free household. Check out episode 35 called snacks. Why early eaters don't need snacks. So don't forget to keep taking advantage of the honeymoon feeding phase. Your baby is in the phase between six and 12 and 15 months of age, babies will like and accept all sorts of foods. We want to take advantage of that.

Katie Ferraro (6m 24s):

Don't give up momentum on keeping her baby trying new foods. So I got 20 moms lined up for you is one of the little bit longer, but like all these submissions were so good. It was so hard to choose. I'm just going to let it roll. So you can hear from them. If you like hearing other people's stories, then I hope you'll enjoy hearing from these moms who are sharing about their 10 and 11 month old babies and some sample baby led weaning feeding schedules. All right, first up is arena from Russia. She was the first one. They leave me a voice message. She sharing how travel and traveling with her baby and staying in a hotel, kind of forced her into a more frequent feeding schedule.

Arena (7m 0s):

Hi, my name is arena. I'm from Russia, Moscow and my baby real. He is 10 months old and now he's eating three times per day, starting from eight and a half months period. So we went to Turkey to the hotel and there we add three times per day. So we couldn't leave him anywhere. So he was with us and that is how he started to eat three times per day. So, and he's happy with that. He's eating very, very well. Yeah, it's him. And he likes it so so much.

Katie Ferraro (7m 43s):

We love it next up Jessica, 11 month old baby, check out how in her schedule. Now she's following her baby's food with milk. After the solid food feeds. That's what we want to work towards. As we near the 12 month, mark food is starting to provide the majority of nutrition and milk kind of becomes like an afterthought.

Jessica (8m 3s):

So my son actually just turned 11 months today and we do a bottle as soon as he wakes up because he's hangry and then he gets breakfast and then he'll have another bottle. Usually before he goes down for his nap, then he wakes up and he'll eat lunch and then have another bottle to top him off. And then we eat dinner at five 30 ish every night, and then he'll have another bottle before he goes to bed. But for roughly he drinks anywhere between 20 to 30 ounces a day with three meals a day right now,

Katie Ferraro (8m 35s):

Jessica. And did you catch her 11 month old is getting 20 to 30 ounces of milk per day. As we get to the one-year mark formula, feeding families will transfer, make the move to cows milk. Some breastfeeding moms might be ready to try that too, if they want to be done breastfeeding or wean back on breastfeeding. But our goal for cow's milk for 12 month old toddlers is 16 to 20 ounces a day. So Jessica, my suggestion would be to start winding down those bottles a little bit. As we get closer to the one-year mark, we want to get closer to the 20 ounce mark. You'll find that cutting back on the formula right now is really going to help ramp up or keep your baby's food intake where we want it to be. If we're sure that we're not overfeeding milk.

Katie Ferraro (9m 17s):

So next up is Ada. She's a breastfeeding mom of a 10 month old. You'll notice she's still nursing before solid foods. And that's fine. It's pretty much impossible to quote unquote overfeed milk if you're breastfeeding, whereas with bottle feeding, right? We just want to keep an eye on it because there is the tendency, especially for older babies who are really good at drinking out of bottles. There's the tendency to overfeed with formula or pumped milk. So here's Ada.

Ada (9m 40s):

Hello. I have baby Madison. She just turned 10 months yesterday. We do two solid meals a day. She wakes up at about seven o'clock in the morning and we nurse, she will have her first nap around 10, and then we will do a second nursing at about 11-11:30. Whenever she wakes up, we will do solids for lunch at about noon. I'll introduce a new food and a tiny bowl, and then we will do the new food plus two familiar foods in the tiny mat. And then after a second nap in the afternoon, we will nurse a third time and then I will do dinner of solids at about 6-6:30 in the evening.

Ada (10m 22s):

It will be the new food of the day plus two familiar foods. And then we will nurse again before bed between seven and eight, we probably should be moving on to three meals a day. I'm just having a hard time figuring out how to do that as my husband and I neither really eat much breakfast in the morning, definitely a weekend thing, but then it's a later breakfast. So with both of us working, I'm just struggling to work it into the schedule of how to do that. I'm sure we'll figure it out over the holiday break and I'll be ready to start that in the new year,

Katie Ferraro (10m 57s):

Thanks Ada. And I bet when you add that morning meal in for meal number three, you'll note, your milk supply is going to drop a little bit as your baby is getting more nutrition from food. And I know that sounds sad to the breastfeeding parents who are enjoying breastfeeding, but that's just how weaning works. You guys are doing awesome. Here's another mom, Lauren. She also has a 10 month old, but it's a little bit different because he is going to daycare.

Lauren (11m 20s):

Hi my name is Lauren and I have a son that is just over 10 months old. We have been doing baby led weaning with him since he was six months. And currently our schedule looks like three solid meals a day. Sometimes he'll even get two little snacks in between those meals while he's at daycare. And then he is having, I would say on average four to five bottles a day, just kind of depending on the day. So typically I'll have a bottle, first thing or nurse first thing in the morning, he'll eat a solid breakfast before daycare. He'll typically then have another bottle right before lunch and he'll have lunch, have another bottle in the afternoon, have his solid dinner when he gets home and then have another bottle before bedtime.

Lauren (12m 3s):

So definitely fluctuates a little bit, day to day and daycare days look a little bit different than days at home, but overall that's what we do.

Katie Ferraro (12m 11s):

Thanks Lauren. You mentioned they give snacks at daycare and I know he's not there every day, but just stay on top of the snack situation. What happens with older babies is that of snacks and milk are making up most of their nutrition. They're not going to be interested in the evening meal and it's perfectly fine for you to share with your daycare team, that these snacks are going to be the milk feeds that he's getting between meals and he does not need traditional or typical quote unquote, snack food. Now, not sure exactly what they're giving a daycare, but just be mindful that snacks have the capacity to sabotage solid food intake in all kids. And a lot of time it starts in infancy. So it's just a good habit to avoid snacks for as long as you can, while your baby is learning how to eat.

Katie Ferraro (12m 53s):

Next up, we're going to hear from the mom Karen. Hi,

Karen (12m 56s):

The current feeding schedule for my 11 month old is he eats three meals a day. The first meal is between 8:30 to 8:45. The second meal is around 1:15-1:30 third meal is between 5:30-6:00. His bedtime is at 7. So that's why I feed him dinner kind of early. And he also nurses before bed. So I'd like him to get a full, a full feeding of milk before he goes.

Katie Ferraro (13m 29s):

Thanks Karen. And I definitely feel you on the early dinner. As far as dropping milk feeds go, I've always personally done Best and I find that the families that I work with in my practice, they tend towards this too. But bedtime feed is usually the last bottle or last breastfeeding session to go. It's of course, a nice way to wind down your baby's day. A nice way to bond with your baby. These feeds are increasingly becoming more about connection and less about nutrition as you get near the one year mark. So I love that you're doing food three times a day. Thank you so much for sharing. All right, next up, we have mom Nicole number one or three different Nicole's involved in today's episode. So this is just Nicole. She didn't leave her last name, but she's got an independent minded baby.

Nicole (14m 13s):

Hi, so I have a son. He just turned 10 months old. I we're starting to move away of course, from purees and focus on finger foods because it seems like all he wants to do right now is feed himself. Whether it's picking up food or holding a little spoon, he will not sit still. If he can't do one of those two, I'll admit this makes me very nervous. Just like I'm sure it does. A lot of other. My son has three meals a day, which he has been doing since we started solids at six months for bottles. I give one per week window. So that's about four bottles and he is usually has about six ounces each. So when it wake up, followed by food about an hour and a half later, I don't know if this is right.

Nicole (14m 59s):

That's why I'm excited to hear the podcast. See if I'm on track with other moms.

Katie Ferraro (15m 3s):

Okay, Nicole, I love your honesty. Yeah, this is a little nerve wracking, but feeding by himself is something that your baby wants to do and has to do to learn how to eat and grow up and doing more trickier textures and less periods makes you nervous. I want to hopefully soften the blow for you and everyone listening by letting you know that research shows us that babies who are at higher risk of choking are those who are offered finger foods, the least often. So by doing textures, other than purees, you're giving your son the practice he needs to get more proficient at self-feeding. Now you also mentioned four bottles at six ounces each. So that's 24 ounces total for the day, right on track for most 10 month olds, you might drop one of those or go down to like four to five ounces per bottle, as you near the one-year mark.

Katie Ferraro (15m 48s):

And even though the guidance, when you transitioned to cow's milk at one year is 16 to 24 ounces of cow's milk tops for one-year-olds I've personally always found that my babies and again, the babies of the families that I work with and my practice, they do better in a tighter 16 to 20 ounce window for cow's milk each day. So some babies also just if you're like, oh my baby doesn't even drink that much. It's totally fine. There are babies who drink less than that and that's okay, but you're doing awesome. Next up is Jessica.

Jessica (16m 14s):

Hi, my name is Jessica and my son is Jennings. He is 11 months old. And right now our schedule for solid foods is that we offer him three meals a day. We try to follow the same formula for all of his plates, which is a protein, a healthy carbohydrate and produce whether it's fruit or vegetable. He gets up around 6:00 AM. We usually have breakfast around 7:00 AM and then he usually has lunch between 11:30 and 12:30 most days, depending on his nap. And then we have dinner for him at 5:00 PM because he is an early to bed early to rise baby. So he does usually eat dinner by himself. I will snack with him while he eats up, eat a version of what he's eating.

Jessica (16m 55s):

And we got really lucky. Our baby loves food. He loves everything. We give him just about everything. We give him. It's a toss up, whether he likes his vegetables or not, I do have to season them. But again, that's our schedule. We don't offer milk to him at this time because I do still nurse him. And we will start offering milk when he turns one, which is actually this weekend,

Katie Ferraro (17m 17s):

Love that you're doing a combo of up to three foods per day. You want a small portion of protein, a small portion of fruit or vegetable, and it starts you food. That's great because more than three foods can be overwhelming. I also want to add that. I noticed you don't do fruit at every meal and that's awesome. You do not have to do fruit every day or at every meal. Another mom mentioned earlier, but she uses the EzPz mini mat. So that's the three compartment silicone suction mat from the company, EzPz, EzPz. My favorite feeding company, as far as gear goes, but the mini Matt is my favorite plate for baby led weaning. It works great for both babies and toddlers. I haven't used it for bigger kids that you guys are shopping for. Ezpz my affiliate discount code is Katie 10 for 10% off at ezpzfun.com.

Katie Ferraro (18m 2s):

And you mentioned transitioning to cow's milk next week, Jessica. Cause your baby's turning one. I know you're moving from the breast to cow's milk. So hopefully you can make that transition using an open cup, not a sippy cup or a bottle because by this point we actually want to start moving baby off of the bottle, not onto the bottle. So that EzPz, tiny cup is my favorite baby led weaning cup. It's two ounces and it's good for babies who are six to 12 months of age. But Jessica, since I think it sounds like your baby, hasn't had a ton of time practicing with the open cup. Yet you might stay on that tiny cup for a few weeks or even months till he gets the hang of it and then size up to the ezpz mini cup. So that's designed for babies 12 months and older again, that affiliate discount code for EzPZ Katie10 wishing you guys a successful transition to that open cup for your baby.

Katie Ferraro (18m 49s):

But I want to share two other episodes that I think you're really going to like they're both interviews with my friend and colleague Dawn Winkelman. She's on social @MsDawnSLP. She's actually the feeding expert for EzPz. So she designs all their cups in their spoons and the plates. And the two episodes that I want to share with you are episode number 40, it's called six reasons to skip the sippy cup with Dawn Winkelman, Ms. CCC, SLP. That's one of the most downloaded guest interviews I've had on the podcast. Again, that's episode 40. And then she also came back in episode 101, and we did a straw cup versus open cup, which comes first because there's some new ones there for spoiler alert, why we do the open cup before the straw cups.

Katie Ferraro (19m 32s):

So again, check out episode 46 reasons to skip the sippy cup and episode 101 straw cup versus open cups, which comes first. Both of those are with miss Dawn SLP. All right, here's Sandy.

Sandy (19m 44s):

Hello. My daughter is 10 months old and is currently eating solids three times a day. It's usually around the same time, 10, 1:30, then around 5:30. And in between meals, she will still breastfeed usually before about 45 minutes before each meal and then breastfeeds at night before the bed and her bedtime is 7:30 for every meal. I usually give her two to three different types of food, a protein, a fat, and the carb.

Katie Ferraro (20m 15s):

Awesome. Sandy, very straightforward. Love that you guys are getting the message about variety of foods. Sandy's doing two to three different foods and a meal, but not overwhelming. Your baby is sometimes I see parents posting pictures or videos of meals like five or six different foods and some multiple new foods. And that can just be really overwhelming for your babies. So love that. You're keeping it simple and straightforward. Thank you, Sandy. Here's Brianna.

Brianna (20m 36s):

Hi. Brianna here from Arizona, we start around six, 7:00 AM. Has wake time. We start with a seven ounce bottle and make breakfast usually consisting of eggs, fruit, maybe a carb we're big on watermelons and berries right now. Then we have at around 9 or 10:00 AM and then we eat lunch around 11. Usually we have leftovers from the night before, or like deli meat and little pieces with fruit and puffs. He loves the puffworks, peanut butter obsessed. And then we have a bottle around, one, a bottle around three and a snack before dinner, which is usually like puffs and fruit. And we're also trying to start replacing one bottle of formula with milk a day since he's going to be a year in like two weeks, and then we have dinner around five or six and then one more bottle around seven.

Brianna (21m 27s):

And then we have bedtime. Well happy

Katie Ferraro (21m 29s):

Almost birthday to your baby. Brianna, you mentioned replacing formula with cows milk as you approach that. One-year mark. What I usually do is I'll go half and half for the first few days, half formula, half cow's milk. And I'll basically do that till I run out of the last canister of formula and then go full on cows milk that's whole milk cows milk. We don't do reduced fat or low fat or non-fat cows. Milk babies really need that fat for they're still developing brains even after one year, but you don't have to make a huge deal out of the transition to cows milk, cows, milk proteins, already the base of formula that you're feeding. So your baby can tolerate it. And some parents, they do these like long drawn out, titrating down regimens of switching off a formula, but like it's actually not necessary. I have a whole episode called transitioning to cows milk.

Katie Ferraro (22m 12s):

How do I do this? That's episode 113. If you want to check it out also, I love that you're continuing to introduce your baby to peanut protein throughout this whole process. Mom mentioned that the puff works, baby peanut butter puffs. I love those for babies cause they have no sugar justice Midge of salt. Puffers also makes a puff, works, baby almond puff. Now it's relatively new that for introducing her baby to a separate allergenic food category from peanut, which is Tree nut. So we want to do peanut, but we also wanted to tree nuts and almonds is a tree nut. So if you guys want to check out the puff works side of the baby peanut butter puffs or the baby almond puffs, I have an affiliate discount code for puff works. The code is babyled all one word. So B A B Y L E D and they're online at puffworks.com.

Katie Ferraro (22m 54s):

All right. Here's one of my favorite moms, Christina. She's a second time baby led weaning mom and here's what's going on with her daughter, Jalen, who we happen to know pretty well here at the Baby Len Wean team.

Christina (23m 4s):

Hi, my daughter Jaylynn just turned 10 months old and she has been loving her baby led weaning journey so far currently and still breastfeeding her about six times a day, but we're also offering her meals three times a day. When we all eat our breakfast, lunch and dinner. Typically we try to offer her the solids first and we've found that she's just more hungry and more interested in eating if we do it this way. And then I'll nurse her afterwards. Overall, I think she's really loved being able to eat with her big brother and baby led. Weaning has made preparing foods for all of us so much easier because we can all just enjoy the same foods together.

Christina (23m 49s):

I just want to say thank you, Katie, for all of your support and give a big shout out to auntie KK for being our biggest supporter in this new eating stage. Bye.

Katie Ferraro (24m 2s):

All right, auntie KK, there is Katelyn Susaki. She's one of our dietitians here at the Baby Led Wean Team. Katelyn was integral in forming my a hundred FIRST FOODS program. She has three baby led weaning nephews in now. Nice Jalen and katelynn just keeps us smiling all day long on slack. She's always sharing videos and pics of her little kiddos always crushing their new food. So thank you to all of Katelyn's family who helps us out with so much content. Jaylin actually has some food allergies and that was a first for their family, but I just loved that Christina and their crew are still pushing on and trying new foods to spite a few setbacks early on in Jaylen's baby led weaning journey. Our here's our mom, Nicole, number two, this is Nicole Nistiko and she has a 10 and a half month old baby.

Nicole (24m 44s):

So my little guy is 10 and a half months. He wakes up around seven 30 has breakfast with my two older kids. They all sit and eat together. He'll then still breastfeeding. So he will drink a little bit of milk before his nap, about an hour and a half to two hours later. And then whenever he wakes up, he does lunch and then same thing. He will, you know, hour and a half, two hours later, he might drink a little bit of milk, then take another nap. And then when he wakes up from that nap, he may or may not have a little bit of milk depending on the time. If it's dinner time, he'll sit down and have dinner with everybody. And then he will drink again before bed. I would also say over the last month he has significantly cut down how much he's feeding breastfeeding.

Nicole (25m 29s):

He loves eating food. So he is definitely starting to self wean.

Katie Ferraro (25m 34s):

Okay Nicole, thanks for adding that. You're noticing the reduction in milk intake. And I just want to validate that if for the other moms listening, if you're feeling this in late infancy, the self weaning can sometimes happen on its own. But if you're noticing that your baby is not eating as much as you would expect to 10 or 11 months of age, take a look at your breastfeeding schedule. And it's important to acknowledge that a 10 or 11 month old baby does not need to nurse as frequently or for as long as they did when they were younger. Right? Third, a point now where if you've been doing baby Led Weaning for eight or 12 weeks or even a little bit longer, your baby is starting to get more nutrition from food. That's weaning in action. Another thing I want to add about intake for 10 and 11 month old is that sometimes this is going to be the most food that your baby will ever eat as an infant because as your baby nears, the 12 month mark, their rate of growth slows down.

Katie Ferraro (26m 24s):

And sometimes you'll see that manifesting in reduced appetite. So parents will freak out when like they're 11 or 12 months old is eating less than they did at 10 months of age. But I want you to know you're not doing anything wrong. Just again, be extra vigilant about making sure you're not overfeeding milk and steer clear of snacks. If you can. Those two things usually help keep a little bit of casual hunger as I call it onboard for your baby. Thank you, Nicole. Here's Corey. My 10 month old son eats three meals per day and occasionally an afternoon snack. When he wakes up in the morning, around six 30, he nurses and then eats breakfast anywhere from seven to 8:00 AM. My mom takes care of him when I work.

Katie Ferraro (27m 5s):

So he'll drink his first bottle around nine 30 or 10 before his half. He eats lunch around 11:30 to 12:30, along with a small bottle. His third bottle is around three or three 30. If his bottle is before his nap, my mom will offer a healthy snack. Once he's out to bridge that gap until he has dinner, once he's home, he usually has a quick nursing session, which is more for comfort upon reuniting. After a long day and dinner is around 6:00 PM. Then he'll have one last nursing session before bed. Corey. First of all, how awesome that your mom is helping while you work. So tell us, I hope she's liking baby led weaning too.

Katie Ferraro (27m 44s):

I love that she has the leeway to offer a bridging snack as you call it sometimes. Hey yeah, dinner just can't always be ready exactly when the baby is getting hungry again. And I bet pretty soon for you guys that the pre dinner nursing session, you're probably going to want to drop it, which will definitely help keep your baby and his mealtime intake, but keep up the great work. All right. Here's Natalie

Natalie (28m 7s):

We had to develop a real partnership with our daycare because both my husband and I work full-time jobs. And thankfully our daycare is a real believer in baby Led Weaning. So they are providing him with really great and very interesting foods that are super appropriate for him. So for our son, he's still very much fed with bottles every two and a half, three, three hours. It just kind of depends on the day and his mood. And then the rest of the time we are trying out different foods with him. So we're really trying to stick to breakfast, lunch, and dinner with real solid food. And then the rest of the day he's being fed with

Katie Ferraro (28m 47s):

Natalie, the daycare that loves baby Led Weaning. I know so many parents listening are like, where do I sign up? Because too often that's not the case. And I just want to add that if you are struggling out there listening, and you don't have a situation like Natalie and you're like, hold up, they don't like Baby Led Weaning where my kid goes to daycare or they don't know what it is, or they don't know how to implement the feeding regimen that I want to do. I have an awesome free handout for you guys with language on how to be an advocate for Baby Led Weaning at daycare. It's on the SHOWNOTES FOR one of my previous episodes, episode 42, it's called daycare. How to be an advocate for baby led weaning with poppy ducky puppies and in-home daycare providers. She also did baby led weaning with her twins. So we worked on this language together and it was a great interview with her.

Katie Ferraro (29m 29s):

If you want to hear it like from the daycare providers side, when it comes to baby Led Weaning, you can download that sample language to practice having these conversations that take care about BMW. If you go to BMW podcast.com/42 also Natalie, you mentioned maybe having a bottle every two and a half to three hours and for a 10 month old babies, it's perfectly fine to stretch that out a little bit more. Now your baby can, in many cases go more than three hours without a puddle in the 10 to 11 months stretch, especially if they're eating three times a day. So we're always working towards about 16 to 20 ounces out of an open cup with cow's milk by the time your baby turns one. So maybe you guys want to practice a little bit more with the open cup, if you can. And yeah, you notice they drink less out of the open cup than they do out of the bottle.

Katie Ferraro (30m 11s):

It's actually a good thing because it helps them eat more and eat more consistently at meal times if they're not drinking too much out of the bottle, all right, here's Ellen.

Ellen (30m 19s):

Hi, this is Ellen and I have a 10 and a half month old baby. We started Baby Led Weaning around seven months old and he's currently on a three solid meal, a day plan, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And he eats a full meal for each one. It's usually a full plate. And then outside of that, he still drinks formula. So he has a morning bottle of usually about six ounces. And then we feed him formula probably every three to four ounces or three, four hours outside of that. And it depends on his nap schedule and he doesn't drink a whole lot beyond maybe two to four ounces for each of those feeds after that, just because he's getting more and more solids, he doesn't want to drink as much milk anymore, but that's our current schedule

Katie Ferraro (31m 7s):

Thank you Ellen. Something important to notice that you started Baby Led Weaning at seven months of age with your baby. Now, maybe you didn't start solid foods right at the six months because your baby was premature or it wasn't sitting up or you did purees and then switched to BLW, whatever. I don't know the particulars, but it's fine because now that your baby is 10 and a half months old, you've been doing this for more than three months. It sounds like your baby is right on track. And I don't want you to worry that your baby is not drinking a ton of milk. If you're still getting regularly wet diapers, no signs or symptoms of dehydration, like that'd be chapped, cracked lips or skin that stays elevated when you slightly pinch it versus going back down, which is what we like to see and hydrated people. And then some babies, they honestly just don't need to drink as much as others. So I would just be practicing pretty hard with that open cup right now, as you're moving towards transitioning the baby off of the bottle at around 12 months.

Katie Ferraro (31m 55s):

All right, here's Jessica.

Jessica (31m 56s):

Hi. My name is Jessica and we currently have a 10 month old son that we are doing Baby Led Weaning with. He is our second Baby Led Weaning baby. We, he has an older sister who's about three and a half years old that we did baby led weaning with as well. And we have a very similar schedule with him as we did with her, our oldest daughter. We do a nursing session typically when he wakes up in the morning and after his first and second nap. And then we do a meal of the little more flexible than we were previously with her, but it seems to work out just fine. He's very, I think because he has a second kid flexible with his schedule. So if we have to do like a preschool pickup or something like that, and something has to adjust 15 to 30 minutes, it still works for us.

Jessica (32m 44s):

We've introduced tons of food with him. Proteins, vegetables, fruits, carbs.

Katie Ferraro (32m 49s):

This is awesome. Jessica, I love that you have that second kid flexible scheduling for mealtime thing going on. Thank you for reminding us that schedules. Yeah, sure. They're great to have, but it's totally okay if we deviate from them a little bit and I just love how confident she sounds having already done Baby Led Weaning before knowing that it works, but still having the energy to keep up trying all of those new foods with your second baby. Thank you, Jessica. You're doing awesome. All right. Here's Lacey.

Lacey (33m 15s):

Hi, I'm Lacey Lens and I have a 10 and a half month old little one who's been doing Baby Led Weaning since six months. My little one loves to eat, explore, and let's be honest. Get very, very messy during mealtimes. By this age, I'm feeding her three meals, four bottles, and one afternoon snack a day. She drinks her bottle about an hour or so before mealtime and drinks water from a straw cup with meals. She's tried 80 different foods at this point. So we're on a grid check to hit a hundred foods by one, which I'm really excited about.

Katie Ferraro (33m 45s):

Congrats Lacey. This is awesome. Only 20 more foods to go until you hit a hundred. I know you're still struggling with the mess, but I promise you guys, it is totally worth it when your baby can and actually wants to eat 100 and even more foods beyond that. If you guys want to grab a copy of that hundred FIRST FOODS list that Laceywas mentioning, I give it away to everybody on my weekly online workshop. That's called Baby Led Weaning for beginners. Now most of you listening are like, I have a 10-11 month old baby. I already have a list. We're not beginners anymore, but for whatever reason, you're listening ahead. I've got a free training that teaches you how to get your baby to try a hundred foods before turning one, without you having to spoonfeed purees or buy pouches. So you can sign up for this week's workshop times and grab your copy of my a hundred FOODS list.

Katie Ferraro (34m 32s):

If you go to BabyLeWeaning.co that's baby led, L E D weaning.co. Here's our third, Nicole, this is mama Nicole Tommaso.

Nicole (34m 43s):

Hello, my daughter's name is Alessia. She just turned 10 months on the 14. I feed her solid foods three times a day. I feed her a big meal, like big breakfast in the morning. And then after her first nap, she has a little snack, maybe leftovers that we had the day before. And then for dinner, she has a big meal with us.

Katie Ferraro (35m 6s):

Big breakfast, baby. I love it. A lot of parents find that if baby does well with breakfast, it kind of sets the stage for good food intake throughout the rest of the day. So it's perfectly fine to start your baby's day with food and not milk. When the baby is 10, 11 months of age, even a little bit earlier, if you want to the moms sharing today, all of babies who are 10 or 11 months of age, but this concept like food and not pill Quinn and get out of bed is like kind of eyeopening for some other parents are like, whoa. I thought I like always had to start the day with the breastfeeding or bottle session. And while you definitely do need to do that in the earlier stages of BLW some of the 10 and 11 month old babies over showering and love food, they can definitely go right from the crib to the table. Now, of course the caveat there is the food has to be ready. That's always a struggle, right?

Katie Ferraro (35m 47s):

So if your baby's starving and you're not going to do milk first, but then also the food's not ready. You're going to be in a little bit of a pickle. So just giving you permission to let your baby start the day with food first, if you can and want to make it work. Thanks, Nicole. Here's another, Katie will the only other Katie on this episode besides me, but I'm just guessing. I think she's from Australia.

Katie (36m 8s):

Olivia is 11 months old now, and normally has three meals a day with milk feeds in between. You normally start with a direct breastfeed at about seven o'clock when we wake up and she has breakfast at eight, after being driven to her grandparents for the day, then she has a bottle at 11 followed by lunch at about 12 to 12-30. Then after I naturally have another bottle at three, and depending on her, how she's feeling, she'll have some afternoon tea, which is usually some fruit or toast with some sort of nut butter. Then she has dinner with us at about six o'clock followed by a last breastfeed at eight o'clock then bedtime.

Katie Ferraro (36m 50s):

Katie, thank you. You mentioned not butter thick blobs of nut butter are definitely a no-go for early eaters. So when your baby was six or seven months of age, really just in that initial stages of exploring textures and thicknesses beyond breast milk and or formula, we do not do thick or sticky globs of nut butter. Always want to do thin. So no crunchy. We don't want any harder crunchy foods, even for older babies home until they're really, really like jamming into toddlerhood is normally when I feel more comfortable about offering those crunchier foods, but you can always thin out the nut butter early on. So you can mix it with formula or yogurt. If your baby's already been exposed to cow's milk protein, or thin it out with unsweetened applesauce, basically we want it to slide off the spoon. So it doesn't get stuck on the roof of your baby's mouth, but stay vigilant about nut butters.

Katie Ferraro (37m 31s):

Even for older babies, like Katie's sticky foods can still get stuck in your baby's airway. They can be challenging, clear. So we usually do a really thin layer when possible, if you're doing it on toast with an older baby, like Katie mentioned just to be extra safe. So thanks for sharing Katie. We got two more moms here's Dolly.

Dolly (37m 46s):

Hi, my name is Dolly. I have a 10 and a half month old son. I started BLW when he was six months old and he really loves it. I usually make him three meals a day. He has milk every morning when he starts off. So usually about six or seven ounces. And then in the mornings, I usually like to make eggs with cheese and spinach, kale, whatever I have available. I like to give him fruits, usually bananas with peanut butter, almond butter topped off with chia seeds, hemp seeds, flax seeds, or any other fruits like raspberry berries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, what not. For a second meal of the day, I usually like to give him some whole wheat organic toast when usually a veggie and a fruit.

Dolly (38m 28s):

And then for his last meal, I usually like to make some proteins with either chicken or salmon with some rice or lentils, lentil pasta. He likes to zucchini broccoli peppers and any other veggie I have.

Katie Ferraro (38m 42s):

I definitely wanna go to Dolly's house like her breakfast sounds awesome. And I can hear it that she actually enjoys cooking and sharing it with her baby, which I just love hearing about you guys. So the last few months I mentioned toast and bread will likely start to play more of a role for your baby as he or she gets more proficient in self feeding. And I know bread is an easy way to check off that carbohydrate section of the mini-map. But if you're listening to this with an early reader, like six or seven, even eight Months Old Babies bread can be really challenging for babies to safely swallow. It's almost certainly as too much salt too, for the early eaters, but I'm definitely down with a little bit of bread for bigger babies. Like the ones the moms are sharing about in this episode just don't get too reliant on bread.

Katie Ferraro (39m 25s):

There are 20 different starchy foods in my hundred FIRST FOODS list are not bread. Just try to keep those in the rotation so that we're not feeding bread every single day. Actually, you know, you don't want to rely on any one food offering it every day. If you can, if you want to learn more about bread and why it's not my favorite first food go to episode 183. It's called bread: when can babies safely eat bread? All right, here's our last mom Moralita.

Moralita (39m 51s):

So first we begin with milk before any meal and wait 30 minutes before giving him a meal. We give him breakfast at 8:00 AM and lunch at 12, a s at ack around two, and then dinner is around seven 30 or eight. Bedtime is at nine 30 and we feed him his milk before all meals and wait 30 minutes until we get some food

Katie Ferraro (40m 14s):

Moralita's schedule is a little different. You might've caught that dinner and bedtime for this baby are a tad later than some other families. And that's fine. You do what works for you. I have a sister has six kids and she pushed all of her baby's bed time to stay like awake way later than most moms do because she values sleeping in the morning and didn't want her baby up at the crack of Dawn. So I'm all for that snack between lunch and dinner that mom was mentioning for an older baby, especially cause in this case, we're talking like seven hours between meals, which she was. So in that case, snacks would be totally appropriate. So one thing Moralita that I would encourage is maybe move the milk behind meals. If your baby has 10 or 11 months of age, she didn't include how old her baby is, but for older babies, 10, 11 months of age, like we're covering today, try to start with food because ultimately our goal, like really soon when your baby gets to that 12 month, mark is we want most of baby's nutrition to be coming from food and not from milk.

Katie Ferraro (41m 6s):

So let's focus on the food and use milk after meals to practice. For example, with the open cup hum, your baby needs to learn how to clear food with fluid from their mouth. The open cup is great for that. We also just want to ensure that babies allowed to have some casual hunger prior to meals when they're a little bit older so that they actually eat all of this amazing food that you're preparing you guys know early on in Baby Led Weaning. We're not at all interested in hunger because baby is still learning how to eat by 10 and 11 months of age, your baby is pretty well almost done with infancy, almost done with being a baby and should be pretty close to getting most of their nutrition from food and not from milk. So don't forget to be practicing with that open cup. Again, the one I love is the tiny cup from EzPz and my code Katie10 works for 10% off at easy-peasy fun.com.

Katie Ferraro (41m 52s):

All right, thanks for hanging with me. Sorry about the raspy voice. Thank you to the 20 moms who called in with their amazing schedules for 10 and 11 month old babies. I know I mentioned a lot of gear, a lot of products, a ton of other episodes. I'm going to link everything up from this episode. If you go to the show notes at blwpodcast.com slash 189, happy feeding, I'll see you next time.