8 month old baby food

From the top of his eight months, baby never ceases to amaze you. And it hasn’t finished surprising you! This month you can start offering mashed or ground foods. You will see how quickly he adapts and progresses day by day! He will now be able to switch to two solid meals a day, in addition to snacks!

Meals for 8 month old baby

A few days ago your baby had to get rid of his extrusion reflex : he no longer pushes back with his tongue the solid food you offer him. Another big change: he will soon be able to sit up on his own. You will therefore be able to install him at the table with you in a real high chair, another important step, which will only enrich his interest in new things when he sees you eat!

Moreover, at eight months, your child eats even more: the quantities increase, whether it is about vegetables, starches or fruits. So that from this month his diet is changing again: he will now take two spoonful meals a day in addition to snacks, and will reduce his number of bottles from 4 to 2 per day only. His meals definitely look like grown-up meals.

As for the organization of meals:

• At breakfast, baby will often be satisfied with breastfeeding or a 210 to 240 ml bottle, possibly combined with infant cereals.
• At lunch as at dinner, a puree made up of vegetables and starchy foods will be offered to him. At noon, add a small portion of meat, fish or egg yolk, the quantity of which will be slightly increased compared to previous months: 15 to 20 g in total (3 to 4 teaspoons) as well as infant dairy (yoghurt, petit-suisse or fromage blanc) while in the evening you can top up with a bottle (210 to 240 ml).
• The snack will be a real snack, made up of crushed or stewed fruit and a dairy product, preferably infant milk.

Milk for 8 month old baby

From 8 months, milk, even if it is an important food in your child’s daily life – he consumes nearly half a liter of it a day -, no longer has the first place in his diet. . Your baby indeed consumes large quantities of solid food, whether vegetables, starchy foods, dairy products (yogurts, Swiss cheese, cottage cheese) or fruit. The quantities of meat, fish or eggs are also increased this month.

The energy intake, generated by solid food, being sufficiently important and the diet being fully diversified, the quantity of milk reduces markedly during the 8th month: baby generally goes from 4 to 2 bottles (or feedings) from 210 to 240 ml per day.

However, cow’s milk and vegetable drinks are still strongly discouraged for young children. Continue to choose 2nd age milk carefully, carefully dosed in proteins, vitamins, minerals and fatty acids, according to your child’s needs.

If you continue to breastfeed your child on demand and your baby is well diversified, you will certainly notice during this month that the number of feedings and their volume decreases considerably.

What foods to introduce?

At 8 months, the discovery continues: at the table baby tastes everything, or almost and feasts on croutons of bread as soon as the opportunity arises.

The vegetables

As for vegetables, if your child is not too sensitive at the intestinal level, you can start introducing slightly more fibrous foods such as leek green that you will cook for a long time and that you will mix with a potato for example. the celerythem salsifythe cabbage in all its forms can also be offered, provided that they are really well cooked, and first of all, reduced to a puree to facilitate their digestion.

For other vegetables, you can now develop the textures by offering them crushed or ground rather than mashed.

Starches

As baby becomes more and more used to the very small pieces, you can now mash or grind the potatoes and sweet potato instead of finely blending them. And in addition to semolina, bulgur, tapioca, quinoa, vermicelli and crushed peas, you will be able to introduce into baby meals:

• Well cooked rice
• Wheat (Ebly® type)
• Cooking grain mixes

If they are well cooked (overcooked, even) or canned and if your child does not have fragile intestines, you can offer him lentils, chickpeas, beans, white or red beans, as long as you grind well.

Proteins: meat, fish and eggs

One of the important changes in the 8th month concerns the amounts of protein.

They were previously limited to 10 g per day, or 2 teaspoons in total. From now on, you can offer 15 to 20 g of meat, fish or egg (always the yolk) to your baby. This remains very small quantities: 3 to 4 teaspoons per day for meat or fish, or 1 egg yolk, at one of the two main meals. Be careful to dose these new quantities well so as not to be tempted to exceed the recommendations.

If you wish to prepare your baby’s meals in advance, do not hesitate to cook your pieces of meat or fish, in a frying pan, wok or steamer and freeze them in individual portions using, for example, baking moulds. ice cubes. All you need to do is take an ice cube of meat or fish out of the freezer every day a few hours before the meal.

The fruits

From now on, fruit will preferably be offered crushed rather than mixed into a compote. In addition to all the other fruits that he will have already discovered during the previous months, you can, on the advice of your pediatrician, include exotic fruits in the baby’s diet, which were not consumed until then because of their strong allergenic power:

• pineapple
• Grated coconut (mixed with juicy fruit)
• The FIG
• The mango
• papaya
• guava
• The kiwi

Dairy products

Ideally, we will continue to choose yoghurts, petit-suisses and fromage blanc in the baby department of stores or in drugstores because, unlike conventional dairy products, they are made from second-age milk, specifically designed to meet the needs of nutritional needs of babies. Remember that cow’s milk is not suitable for babies before 1 year and ideally before 3 years.

8 month old baby food day

Here is an example of a typical food day for your eight month old. Of course, the quantities are given as an indication, and should be adapted according to your child’s appetite.

Breastfeeding or bottle 210 to 240 ml of 2nd age milk with low mineral water
Optional: Infant cereals (in the bottle)

Puree of crushed or ground vegetables + starches + 1 tbsp. c. of oil (ideally: mixture of 4 oils: Sunflower, Rapeseed, Oléisol, Grapeseed): 130 to 200 g depending on your appetite.

15 to 20 g meat, fish or egg yolk = 3 to 4 teaspoons of meat or fish or 1 egg yolk

Dairy, ideally with infant milk (yogurt, petit-suisses or cottage cheese) OR 120 g of crushed fruit

Dairy, ideally with infant milk (yogurt, petit-suisse or fromage blanc)

Puree of crushed or ground vegetables + starches + 1 tbsp. c. of oil (ideally: mixture of 4 oils: Sunflower, Rapeseed, Oléisol, Grapeseed): 130 to 200 g depending on your appetite.

Breastfeeding or bottle of 210 to 240 ml of 2nd age milk with low mineral water

Optional: Infant cereals (in the bottle)