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Help Needed - Eating Schedule @ 5 Months
I know every baby is different, but I was hoping some of you would be willing to share the eating schedule you have for a 5 month old. We are just starting Caitlin on Rice Cereal, but I'm trying how to best manage that along with nursing / bottles and then adding additional foods into the mix. TIA for any help you could provide.
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Re: Help Needed - Eating Schedule @ 5 Months
Well, I can tell you our schedule, but we FF and Sophia is 6.5 months old.
BTW, we have the same penguin that is in your sig pic with Caitlin!
Sophia usually gets up around 6:30-7:30, she'll eat an 8 oz bottle then.
She eats about every 4 hours, so at her next feeding she gets oatmeal baby cereal and another 8 oz bottle.
then 4 hrs later another 8 oz bottle and either veggie or fruit baby food stage 2.
then 4 hrs later she gets her final 8 oz bottle and bedtime.
Caleb is just about two weeks younger than you little one, and we just started rice cereal about a week ago when he mysteriously stopped STTN. The cereal worked! We're on a 3.5 hour schedule. For the first few days, we were just giving him one meal of cereal/day, but now we're up to two. Here's what we've been doing.
Caleb usually gets up around 6:00, and I nurse him.
Around 9:30, he gets either a bottle (6oz) or I nurse him depending on the day and who's watching him.
The next two feedings at 1:00 and 4:30, he gets a 6oz bottle or nursed and rice cereal (2 Tbsp mixed with 2 Tbsp breastmilk).
Then at 8:00, he is nursed before bed.
In another week I think I'm going to start adding in a fruit/veggie instead of one of the cereal feedings. Once he's tried all the stage one fruits and veggies, I'll probably go up to three solids/day (cereal, fruit, veggie) although that's not set in stone.
We did rice cereal at 4.5 months and we did it twice a day - morning and evening - shortly after a bottle. For us it didn't take away any bottles, we just didn't need to increase the amounts in the bottles anymore. He took to the cereal immediately so at five months we started carrots and then just kept adding foods.