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Help--- more solids/less bottles?

Tara n MikeTara n Mike member
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I'm sorry; I know people ask for feeding schedules all of the time, but I really need some advice! DD has started eating a lot more solids and finger foods. I'm pretty much giving her 3 big (IMO) meals a day. I don't know what to do with her bottles. She used to drink (5) 6 oz bottles but now she is not finishing them at all. Today I tried (4) 7 oz bottles but I think she only ended up drinking about 19 oz total. Has your pedi given you advice on this or this completely individual to the baby? TIA
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Re: Help--- more solids/less bottles?

  • Liss_37Liss_37 member

    it's normal, usually around this time a lot of babies go down to 3 bottles a day

    DS is now on 3 8oz bottles a day.. one at 7 when he wakes up, one at 1pm before his nap and one at 7pm before he goes to bed

    (he also has 3 meals of solids a day plus snacks)

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  • aggielaurenaggielauren member
    DS has three big meals of solids a day and a small snack. He was drinking a bunch of bottles so I upped his solids and he now eats between 20 and 24 oz a day, more often 20 (he has a total of 4 bottles, not the same amount at each sitting but it ends up totalling the amount I said). I plan on asking the pedi about it next week, but from the stuff I've read on here, I think it's okay.
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  • sleeping5beautysleeping5beauty member
    Glad you posted this. I was going to ask the same thing. Orion hasn't really been drinking bottles during the day. He will have maybe one or two in the 8 hours he's at his grandma's. But he has 4, 4oz bottles while he's with me from 6pm till 9 am. I was starting to get a little worried especially since it's almost 100 degrees here. But he is eating 3 meals a day and seems to be loving his baby food. So anything over 20oz is normal?
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  • JinglesChicJinglesChic member

    We're starting this too. DS only had 3 6-8oz bottles today but ate a ton of baby food. I remember hearing that an ounce of formula and BM usually has around 20 cal so it's ok to cut back once they start to eat that much in food.

    Can I ask if anyone is concerned about not getting enough nutrients? I try to balance everything out, but hardly any baby food contains calcium and obviously we can't give milk yet. I'm hoping that he's getting enough in the formula that he gets. 





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  • Tara n MikeTara n Mike member
    Thanks... I am just going to have to play around with the bottles and see what works! I read that she should be drinking at least 24 oz... that will be tough!
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  • Tara n MikeTara n Mike member
    imageJinglesChic:
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    Can I ask if anyone is concerned about not getting enough nutrients? I try to balance everything out, but hardly any baby food contains calcium and obviously we can't give milk yet. I'm hoping that he's getting enough in the formula that he gets. 

    Yes, I am worried about this!  I feel like she eats so many "snack" type foods.  I am trying to give her yogurt and she LOVES cheese.  We even tried string cheese today.  I also gave her a mixture of frozen carrots, peas, corn, and green beans at dinner and she loved it.

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