please share your feeding schedule

junebride060306

my LO will sometimes drink 50 oz in a 24 hr period. my pedi thinks when he wakes up at night its out of habit not hunger. he goes 5- 8 hrs, then drinks 8oz and goes back asleep for a max total of 10-12 hrs. pedi said to focus on increasing solids. we just started 1.5 weeks ago. have worked up to 2 tbsps rice cereal in AM and PM. but he still takes 6+oz every 2-3 hrs during the day and 8oz before bed and then 8oz in the middle of the night. planning to now add in veggies and fruits. I read to give solids 30 mins to 1 hr after bottle, so that's what I do, but maybe I should cut the bottle amount down as food increases? what is your feeding schedule and daily routine like? thanks!! LO weighs 18lbs 9oz and is around 75th percentile for height/weight. of note he was only 1st percentile 2 months ago (down from 10th percentile the month prior to that, loooong story!)

CarrieLiz

Wow I don't think my LO ever drank 50oz in one day.

5:30AM - 6oz bottle

7:30AM - 4oz solids

9AM - 6oz bottle

12PM - 4oz solids

1:30PM - 6oz bottle

5:00PM - 4oz solids or 6oz bottle, depending on his mood and if he's tired

7:30PM - 6oz bottle

LadyXaverian

When DD went through a growth spurt, she once took over 40 oz in one day, and I thought that was a lot, but that was before she started solids.

Here's our approximate schedule:

6 a.m.- 8 oz bottle

7 a.m.- 2 oz cereal

10:30 a.m.- 8 oz bottle

12:30 p.m.- 2 oz fruit

3:00 p.m.- 8 oz bottle

5:30 p.m.- 2 oz veggie

7:00 p.m.- 8 oz bottle

She takes between 28 and 32 oz of formula (I offer 32 oz, but sometimes she doesn't finish every bottle) and 6 oz of solids. Until we added the 3rd solid meal just last week, she was taking about 34 oz of formula a day, but she's slowed herself down recently.

She is about 19 lbs and has been in the 90th-95th %ile for both weight and height since birth except at her 1 month appointment when she was in the 75th %ile. 

 

pinkzebra

6:30am - 5oz bottle

9am - 4 oz fruit / 1-2 tbsp cereal

11am - 5 oz bottle

1pm - 4oz veggie / 1-2 tbsp cereal

3:30-4pm - 5 oz bottle

6:30-7pm - 2oz veggie & 2 oz fruit

8:30pm - 7 oz bottle

skio

DD is breastfed, so I don't know how many ounces she takes in a feeding.

9am - nurse.

10am - 2tbsp oatmeal with 2-3tbsp fruit.

1pm - nurse.

5pm - nurse.

6:30pm - 4-6tbsp veggie/veggie mix.

8pm - nurse.

When I'm not home, she takes a 6-7 ounce bottle and seems happy, but again, I can't be sure that that's how much she's getting from the breast. I would assume she's getting slightly more.

She was 90th percentile for weight and 99th for height at her 6m appt.

chardonnay24

At 6 months, A was drinking 5 5 - 6 oz bottles and eating 2 solids meals per day.

LISAF1197

DS is 6 1/2 months old and at his 6 month appt the pedi told us to increase his solids from 2x a day to 3 to 5 times a day.  He said to give cereal 1-2 times a day plus veggies/fruits 3 times a day.  DS takes a 6oz bottle usually 5 times a day.  The only difference from what we do from the rest of the pp's, is that we give him solids and the bottle together....so now I'm actually wondering if we are doing it the right way?! He seems to last 4 hours in between feedings and is content...sometimes he can last up to 5 hours.  He isn't fully STTN though.  Usually he goes down between 7-730 and gets up at 5-530...sometimes, 330-4.

ams8099

50 oz!!! Wow That's a lot! 

My girls take between 4-6oz every 3-5 hours. The generally sleep through the night. We do 1 tbsp of oatmeal + 2 oz fruit in the AM. 1.5 oz fruit or veggie for lunch and 3 oz veggies plus 1 tbsp rice for dinner

RayRay007

I mostly bf:

4 or 5 am - bf

7am - bf

10am- bf

12- 3tbsp oatmeal and 2oz fruit

3pm- bf

5pm - 4-6 oz of fruit and veg, recently added chicken in the mix too

7pm - bf

If she gets a bottle of bm or formula she drinks about 4-5 oz, so a total of 20-25 oz. a day. She's 50th percentile for height and weight and has been since she was born.

dsmithplus2

I didn't know you were supposed to feed LO solids after about an hour prior to bottle... Dang! 

5:30 am - 7 oz. of bottle

9:30 or 10 am - 7 oz. of bottle with oatmeal (about to add some fruit in with this)

2 pm - 7 oz. of bottle with veggie 

6 pm - 7 oz. of bottle

10 pm - 7 oz. of bottle with veggie

**Sleeps through the night. 

I say 7 oz. at feeding because that is most he will eat, but sometimes doesn't eat exactly 7.  

hmontty

About 10 am (when LO wakes up), half jar of Earth's Best stage 1 fruit and maybe 3 Tbsp of oats, along with 8-ounce bottle.

About 1:30 pm, the rest of the fruit jar and another 8-ounce bottle.

About 5:30 or 6 pm, 3 Tbsp rice, a full jar of a veggie.

She gets a third 8-ounce either during that last feeding or a little later.

Sometimes she gets a fourth bottle at night, depending on when she goes to bed and how hungry she is, but that fourth bottle seems to be phasing out as she's starting to want to go to bed earlier (about 8:30 or 9...used to be 10:30).

She's >99% for weight and 75% for length, since birth.