what is your 14 month old´s sleeping/feeding routine?

Stop feeding her -- I don't mean stop giving her food, just, stop putting it in her mouth for her. Totally stop buying the stuff in the jars. The teeth aren't much of an issue; she'll be able to gum most everything up.

She is old enough for her own spoon/fork and an open cup at the table. For spoons start with stuff that really sticks to the utensil -- oatmeal, mashed beans or potatoes, tiny pasta in a lot of gooey cheese, etc.

She is too old to receive any benefit from formula; what is good for an infant is not always good for a toddler -- it is a lot of now-unnecessary chemicals, cheap fats, and sweeteners. Regular milk is fine.

Food sent to floor = "I am not hungry." Give regular food when you know she's hungry, not after feeding baby food.

Well every baby is different. My son is 15 months old and he is still eating jarred foods, but we are introducing table foods slowly so that he gets used to it and not 'so over whelmed'. He see's a nutritionist and therapists in regards to some of the problems he was born with and feeding problems is one of them.

He doesn't have a routine, but for a baby his age his therapists tell us he needs 3 meals a day and 2 snacks. About 1kg all together in one day.

But he normally wakes at 8:30-11am.... I change his bottom and after that I give him cereal. Either it's the porridge or oats from the jar, 170g each jar he has 2 of them or 220 if the jar is a big one... If I have run out of the jars, I make up my own muesli and add heated full cream milk and mash it together.

After that he plays with his toys or drinks his water if he wants it.

Then he may need another nappy change during the play time, so I change him again and he plays or passes out, depending if he is tired or not. and then when he wakes up, I change him again and give him lunch. Normally it's anything that the baby foods offer. So it might be Vegetable Lasagna ((250g)) or Chicken Bologna's ((250g)), drink of water after meal and snack if he wants it. I give him the Rice rusks so that he can feed himself, because he cannot feed himself with a spoon (he has developmental delay)

and so i give him little snacks throughout the day to help encourage him feeding himself. I show him how to hold his drink cup and how to drink it, he now does that well, and how to hold the rice rusks and eat them, which he does good now and other foods i give him as snacks include the slurpie yoghurt's that I squeeze into his mouth, because he thinks it's a bottle.

He will have dinner around 5-7pm and more snacks after to make it 3 meals a day and 2 snacks.

But when you introduce normal milk, you have to be careful when introducing it to your child because it can cause fussiness and irritable in children if introduced all at once. so the best option is to slowly introduce it. give maybe 100ml and then slowly increase it until it gets to the stage that your baby accepts it.

t i p s t o i n t r o d u c e t a b l e f o o d s a r e:

*introduce it when you are eating too so that the baby feels apart of the family

*let your baby get messy so that she can learn to feed herself

*mash foods and don't give up hope or trying because it can take up to 10 tries for a baby to finally accept something they may have not liked in the past.

all the best

14 Month Old Routine