Thanks Sharan67, she's actually having 840ml of milk a day, some days even 1000ml on top of the solids. I'll try the light dinner idea and see how it goes:-)
i'd give her a small light dinner if she needs it, like a pasta with zucchini and tomato or macaroni cheese...i would keep snacks healthy but light and with my DD who's 32 months now, she has 3 meals with two snacks in between (usually yoghurt, fruit or nuts) since your little one is still 8 months, is she still taking her 600 ml of milk a day? you could give her milk 6-8 oz milk as her snack after lunch and before dinner...i found annabel karmels schedule's quite helpful to follow and combined the milk feeding with meals and snacks but i think my DD started having her proper 3 meals by 10-12 months (i used alot of ella's kitchen pouches inbetween for healthy snacks too.
A question for the more experienced mommies out there...My DD is almost 8 months old and has recently started increasing her food intake, she went from having solids just for the taste to be honest, to now having a healthy portion of cereal in the morning, a fruit snack (usually an apple and two plums or similar quantity of fruit), a medium (app. 100ml) bowl of food for lunch which ranges from vegetables with cheese, lentils with spinach and rice, chicken with veg,, meat with veg, etc, and then a yogurt as an afternoon snack plus 4 bottles of milk (210ml each).
I'm struggling to find ways to keep her satisfied with her food, especially in the afternoon when I suspect the yogurt is not doing much and the milk isn't either so she tends to complain a lot and appear quite hungry. What do people commonly give for dinner? Shall I try a proper meal? Give some more snacks and if so, what? I don't want to start giving her bread and biscuits as I'm afraid they're empty calories and may be the start of bad habits. Any ideas or recommendations would be greatly appreciated:-)
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