What's your 5 month olds feeding schedule

JessandJeremy · February 2010

We just did cereal today for the first time. Ethan drinks 6 oz every 3 hours and I was thinking of 1tbsp of cereal at 9:30 before bottle and at 6:30 before bottle. Thoughts? What are you all doing?

sophabelle · February 2010

we've been doing cereal since 4mo due to reflux and we do 2 feedings of it. we started w/a few teaspoons and have worked up from there and are currently at 1/4 cup mixed w/about 3 oz liquid.

we do his first feeding of cereal about 20-30 min after his first feeding and then do his dinner cereal around 530-6 again about 30 min after a feeding so he's not using the cereal as a meal replacement.

he generally eats about every 2-4 hours.

Joey-Roo · February 2010

5 oz every 3 hours. 1/3 of a small jar of veggies with 3 of the bottles. A few weeks ago she was waking up around 3 am for a bottle but lately she has been sleeping through that. Your plan sounds good to me.

kaekee · February 2010

I've heard to give the bottle before the solids....

MrsBeckO · February 2010

Breastmilk or formula needs to remain your primary source of nutrition until 1 year, so it would be better to offer solids after a bottle/breast feeding rather than before.

jjwheat1007 · February 2010

7am - BF as much as she wants

9am - BF as much as she wants

11am - 5-6oz formula

2pm - BF as much as she wants

3:30pm - 1/2 - 1 serving of baby food and 1 serving of rice cereal mixed

BF any time in here as much as she wants

6pm - 5-6oz formula

8:30pm - BF as much as she wants until bed...

lgurian · February 2010

the boys eat at 8am, 12pm, 4pm, and 8pm. they eat 8.5-9.5 oz out of the bottle. we tried cereal and they dont like it so i just started trying oatmeal. they seem to like that ok. i give it to them after the 8am bottle and after the 4pm bottle. this morning i just tried giving them some peas. that seemed to go over ok. so i think i will give them a veggie after the 12pm bottle. they STTN.