For 4 month olds

starz4him08 · June 2010

1. How much does your 4 month old eat and how often?

DD is eating 6 oz every 3 to 4 oz when I give her a bottle of BM.

3. When did you start rice cereal? At 4 months? Or did you wait until LO had their Dr. apt?

I think DD is ready! She will be 4 months on Sunday (Father's Day). Not sure if I will start then or wait until her Dr. apt.

pdxjenn · June 2010

Mine gets a 5 ounce bottle every 2-3 hours. He rarely finishes the whole thing.

Why do you think "she is ready"?

lesuth · June 2010

My guy eats about 6 oz of formula every 3 or 4 hours. We tried the rice cereal about 3 weeks ago, just after 4 months old. If we had kept trying, I'm sure he would be doing alright with it, but after the first time I did a bit more research and decided to wait.

My guy is in the 50th-75th percentile for weight already, so he is doing just fine on the formula we have been giving him. I figure I'll try again in another week or two.

starz4him08 · June 2010

I experimented. I gave her a spoon to see what she would do and she opened her mouth and started chewing on it. Sometimes she seams bored with the bottle/breast. She's holding her head up just fine and knows when she's about to be fed bc she opens her mouth in anticipation. These are all signs that I think she's ready to move on to the next step.

NiniJ55 · June 2010

1. How much does your 4 month old eat and how often?
4oz of BM every 3 hours when not with me. When we are together I E-nurse him .. about every 3 hours also. DS is now on solids so he also gets about 5oz of pureed food per day (2-2.5 oz at 2 of his feedings).

3. When did you start rice cereal? At 4 months? Or did you wait until LO had their Dr. apt? Dr. gave us the go ahead to start cereal a couple of weeks before his 4 month appointment. Cereal did not go well so we moved on to purees - a hit.

meegs1229 · June 2010

My LO eats 6.5 ounces of bm/formula every 3-4 hours. I BF him for two of his feedings.

I haven't started solids yet and after our visit to the pedi today, I think I'm going to wait until 6 months. The pedi said 4 months is fine for solids if there is no family history of food allergies or asthma. Unfortunately DH had pretty bad asthma as a child, as did his sister and my brother. So we're waiting.

sapphire angel · June 2010

Eating 5-6 ounces every 3-6 hours for a total of 30 ounces per day.

No rice cereal even though like you said she appears ready (chews on spoon, grabs for adult food - and actually got a fistfull of some salsa, tongue pushing stuff out of the mouth has greatly diminished in the last month). We have had so many tummy troubles that we are not going to touch cereal until the GI gives us the go ahead and even then I am going to have him spell it out in writing on what to do and when and how.

StephE623 · June 2010

DD eats about 30 oz a day. I haven't started rice cereal and probably won't until I get the ok from my pedi at her 6 month appt.

jwthoms1 · June 2010

Wow I guess I have a big eater. He drinks 6-7 oz 6-7 times a day. The doc told us to start solids at his 4month appt. I was hesitant but I've also heard they shouldn't be drinking that much so we are slowly starting foods and hoping he starts drinking a bit less soon.