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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
chocopotamus
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How much is too much?
chocopotamus
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So my friend and I have 2 totally different views of feeding our LO's.
Example: Connor just started getting cereal Sat. after turning 4 months. She's been giving her LO cereal in his bottle since 1 month (no reflux or health issues). She started feeding her LO fruits and veggies since 3 months. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong because I'm a 1st time mom and we just started solids, but doesn't this seem like a lot of food for a 5 month old?
---->posted on her fb page
"This is what my beautiful baby boy ate for dinner... 7 oz of formula, one jar sweet potatoes, 2 jars apple sauce, and 1/2 jar of peas..... he was a hungry boy"
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Re: How much is too much?
Holy sh!t that seems like a lot of food. Everything I've read said you have to be careful not to overfeed them from the spoon. I read that if you keep putting the spoon to his mouth, LO will often open up whether he's full or not.
As soon as D turns his head, spits out food and starts blowing raspberries, I stop feeding him. I do not want to overfeed him and stretch his stomach.
The two men in my life. Oh, and I have a husband too...
Goodness.
Punky disapproves.
Born 7lb, 15oz, 21-1/4, 2 mo - 12lbs, 14oz. 25", 3mo - 14lb, 4oz 26in , 4 mo - 16lb, 1oz, 26 3/4 in, 5 mo 18 lb, 4oz 27-3/4 in, 6 mo 28 3/4 in 19lb, 14oz
Holy cow that seems like a lot of food. Caleb only eats 1/2 a jar of Stage 2 at a sitting, though sometimes more if he's really hungry. And 6 ounces of formula about 30-45 min later.
Are the parents bigger (height wise, not necessarily weight wise)? My friend's SIL's baby is 2 months older than C and HUGE. But his parents are both over 6 feet tall, so it's not a shocker that he's such a big boy. He's also growing proportionately, he's not overly chubby or anything.
ETA: I don't know how much my friend's SIL feeds her baby, either. Was just giving an example of a baby whose big because of genes.
I definitely think it sounds like she's overfeeding the baby.
Try not to sound too self righteous when she starts wondering why her baby is so fat in a few months - it will be hard but you can do it. That is way too much food. I can see DH eating that much at dinner but he is a grown man over 6 feet tall.
Detokiet, my little Caleb is just around a week or so younger than yours
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She is kind of over weight, and her SO if 6 feet tall, but still...that's a lot IMO. I know everyone raises their LO's different but IDK whether to say something or just let it be...
He's growing up, but he'll always be my baby!
Nathan--11/4/10
...big brother to...???? Due March 2014!
IS SHE MY MIL??? Seriously, my MIL fed DH cereal from a SPOON at 2 weeks old. She figured, "why wait until he's six months old to train him to eat with a spoon?" She also brags about how he started eating adult meals at 8 months. What she "overlooked" most of his life (DH is 32) that he chokes on any solid food that goes into his mouth, no matter how much he chews it. No matter how small of a bite he takes, something gets lodged in his throat. He drinks fluids after every bite to force his food down, but he always has to have a bottle of water or something close by when he's eating. If he doesn't, he can make himself throw up to get the food out of his throat, but then who really wants to go on eating after that? We're going to get his throat stretched, but when I was pregnant I read that babies start solids at 4-6 months because they need the suck, swallow, suck, swallow motion to be well established before they can eat regular food. My MIL said he never told her about his constant choking, but DH insists that anytime he ate dinner and started choking, she just yelled at him to chew his food.
My DS is almost 6 months old and we feed him about 4-6 oz of veggies/fruits/oatmeal + 4 oz of milk 2-3 times a day with his regular 5-6 oz bottles at 3 hour intervals between his feedings. (Bottles at 5-6a, 10a, 3p, 8:30-9p, food+bottle 7:30a, noon-1pm, 5-6:30p). But if we left it up to DS, he would keep eating because he is a BABY and doesn't know when he's too full... even when he spits up he'll open his mouth like a birdy for more. She's overfeeding her kid. Not being snarky, but is she an overeater, too?
Well, I'm about 200 lbs so way overweight, and DH is about 250 so just a little over, but damned if I will stuff C's face to that degree. Thats more solids than he eats in a day, combined with 5-6 7oz feedings that he doesnt always finish.
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