Does the formula you use in cereal count?

Jenn11234

I make a 6 oz bottle when DS wakes up, but he only takes 4 oz and I use the last 2 oz to make his oatmeal.  Same with his Lunch.  Then he takes about 4 oz at 4 pm, then dinner at 5-6 pm, then he takes a 6 oz at bedtime.  I feel like he isnt eating enough formula and would rather eat his food.  Maybe I am feeding him too much food and should scale back on food so he eats more formula, because if you do count the formula I use in his cereal hes only getting 22 oz, which isn't enough for a 7 month old (says my book)  What do you guys think?

Oh and DS is 90% weight and 99% weight so he's not small by any means!

He also fights the bottle, only takes about an ounce before he has to sit up and look around then he decides to lay back down and drink more...he is very busy.

WOW sorry so long...but DH says I am driving him crazy...our Pedi says hes fine but he is a little too laid back in my opinion!

alabaster_angel

If the kid is happy and healthy and your doctor thinks things are fine.. I'd say things are fine.

Jenn11234

PP, Thank you!!! And that is what I was thinking, I may try the lunch first and do ab half of what it was then try the bottle..worth a shot I guess!

rlscheck

Maybe try formula in a sippy cup?  We EBF, but if I try to give her a bottle of BM, she refuses, but she LOVES the sippy cup.  I think she feels a like a big girl drinking from it.  Sometimes she'd rather have that then food.

klcl8981

I was wondering this myself! My DS has VERY similar percentiles to yours too. We WERE doing 3 solids a day, but I was also concerned about how little the formula intake became. Pedi said to try 2 meals a day instead. I still don't feel like DS takes much more formula. Plus, when he teethes, he can get real picky about drinking a bottle. Lately he's chewing the sh!t out of everything, and playing.

I read someplace that by 8 months, they really should be having 3 meals a day. I feel like I'm so NOT on a schedule with him, but I have TRIED!!

I know he's healthy, and happy. But I swear, sometimes I feel so clueless with this whole feeding schedule.

doremi29

We went through a phase with DS where he was refusing most all bottles.  We were struggling to get him to take 15/16 oz a day.  He now easily takes 20-24oz/day, but when he was refusing the bottle, the pedi told us to make the cereal a little soupier and that we should consider the formula used in the cereal when counting up how many oz's he took. I would say it lasted about 2-3 weeks where he was reeeeally fighting bottles.  Now he's much more willing to take bottles and went from "grazing" on bottles all day long to actually taking a good amount much more routinely.

DMCinderella

doremi29:

We went through a phase with DS where he was refusing most all bottles.  We were struggling to get him to take 15/16 oz a day.  He now easily takes 20-24oz/day, but when he was refusing the bottle, the pedi told us to make the cereal a little soupier and that we should consider the formula used in the cereal when counting up how many oz's he took. I would say it lasted about 2-3 weeks where he was reeeeally fighting bottles.  Now he's much more willing to take bottles and went from "grazing" on bottles all day long to actually taking a good amount much more routinely.

Thank you for sharing this. My LO is doing this exact thing and it is stumping me. I have been adding more formula to his cereal to up his oz/day.

kayteatrudeau

Yes. It does. We have a little peanut as I was told to mix powder into all her meals.

The easy formula to use is that the baby needs 50 calories per pound per day.

Jenn11234

Thank you everyone! This helps! I am going to cut back on food and see if he drinks more, if not then I will give it some time and see if its just a phase!

g8trkim

I think it counts whether in cereal or in a bottle because their getting the nutrients. At our 6 month appt our pedi told at he should be getting at least 18 oz, so I think you're fine.