gerber.com menu planner...WTF???

darabeth1281 · February 2011

I'm always wondering if I should be feeding DD a little more solids than I do already (usually about 1.5oz of something between 6-7pm), or if I'm on track with the solids. We started solids about a 6 weeks ago and it has been going well. I decided to jump on gerber.com to check out their menu planner to see what they would have be doing. They recommend 24 fl oz of breastmilk a day(which is fine....she usually takes between 25-30oz). But they have me feeding her solids 4x a day! 2 1/2 tubs of food plus 8TBSP of cereal! Holy Sh!t. Is it just me but that sounds like a crap load of food! I get full just at the sound of that! I can't imagine DD would have enough room in her belly for that. What 5 month old do they think eats like that???

ElleDub912 · February 2011

I thought the same thing when I checked that out. My daughter is 8.5 months old and still does not eat/drink that much. I guess some babies do eat a lot more though...I think gerber is just trying to get you to buy more of their products...

Roxpup · February 2011

we didn't start doing 2 meals a day until LO was 6 months old... then we waited til 7 months old to add the 3rd meal in. We would have held off on the 3rd meal but he started waking up for night feedings, we upped the ounces in his bottles and he consistently didn't drink them, so we added another meal for him in the day.

at 5.5 months old we were giving 1 tub/jar/equivalent of homemade baby food plus cereal mixed in with it each day. Even now he does not eat 4 times a day, he eats 3 times a day, he does eat a whole tub's worth of food at a time, though.

SuperCuteBenz · February 2011

I could see my LO eating that much. He gets around 4 tablespoons of cereal 2x a day right now. We haven't gone too much into the solids yet, but he eats around 32 oz of formula a day as well.

BLUEIEDHIPPY · February 2011

we started that menu at 4 months!!..he would scream every time I ate something until I fed him from a spoon.... & we just moved him up to the seconds menu at 6 months=) so i think its all about what the lo wants & is used too..