If your baby SSTN, how much does s/he eat during the day?

katie4253 · April 2012

I feel like Gabe eats a substantial amount of food during the day 24oz of formula, 4oz of yogurt, 4oz of meat or veggie puree, cheerios, 1/2 pancake, and something off the finger food menu at daycare (today was bread).

Yet, he is still waking up in the middle of the night for a full 6oz bottle. I can't get him to eat more during the day that he does. He has been sleeping longer (the past 2 nights he's slept from 6:30-4:45, woken up to eat (10 mins) and then went back down until 6:30.

I'd love to hear what other babies are doing!

AsOctoberFalls · April 2012

DS eats about 30 oz of formula and has 2 meals of stage 2 solids. He used to down an entire 8 oz bottle at night, but he cut this out (without increasing the daytime feeding amounts) when we sleep trained.

aeklotz · April 2012

She eats 24 oz of formula and 3 meals of appx 2-3 oz solids plus a handful or two of puffs for snacks. She dropped her midnight snack bottle after we did sleep training. We would just let her fuss for no more then 10 minutes when she woke up to eat. If she lasted more then 10 minutes we would feed her, but after a couple days she would either fall back asleep or sleep through. Good luck!

katie4253 · April 2012

Well, 6oz's is 120 calories. Since he is still hanging 5-10% on the actual curve, I hate to see him lose those calories.

Calories with a preemie are a total mind screw. I can pretty much tell you the exact number of calories he eats each day...

dairygirl19 · April 2012

katie4253:

Well, 6oz's is 120 calories. Since he is still hanging 5-10% on the actual curve, I hate to see him lose those calories.

Calories with a preemie are a total mind screw. I can pretty much tell you the exact number of calories he eats each day...

I shouldn't laugh but I am. My SIL had preemie twins that at 3 just hit the chart. They're doing well just little. For a good year she could tell you how many calories where in their bottles, their sippies and pretty much anything they or anyone else ate.

Rubes isn't even a preemie and she pretty much eats like Gabe. She wakes up about 4 times a week for a bottle about 2ish. I can't make her drink more during the day without spitting up either. She does so-so with solids. Hates purees. Somedays she'll eat all the table food in sight and then days like yesterday it's one slice of pineapple and a bite of cracker. She drinks 24-30ish oz of bottles most days.

I pretty much give up at this point. I just give in. I assume she'll outgrow it eventually. She's also on the small side and downs the bottle no problem...so what am I supposed to do? She is otherwise a decent sleeper so I'm not willing to CIO at this stage over a bottle.

ksulli · April 2012

DD will STTN on occasion (more regularly lately and I'm making nightly offerings to the sleep gods for it) but she just makes up for her 'missing' overnight nursing session first thing in the morning, so I'm no help.

Good luck with little man & the calories.

LnR70707 · April 2012

Just within the last week we are down to nursing upon wakeup, 2 5oz daytime bottles, 7oz formula bedtime bottle plus 3 meals (of however much he'll eat). Before that I'd also offer about 3oz of BM at breakfast and 2oz at dinner. We've had a lot of sleep regression lately, but he hasn't required a night feed in several months.

katie4253 · April 2012

dairygirl19:
katie4253:

Well, 6oz's is 120 calories. Since he is still hanging 5-10% on the actual curve, I hate to see him lose those calories.

Calories with a preemie are a total mind screw. I can pretty much tell you the exact number of calories he eats each day...

I shouldn't laugh but I am. My SIL had preemie twins that at 3 just hit the chart. They're doing well just little. For a good year she could tell you how many calories where in their bottles, their sippies and pretty much anything they or anyone else ate.

Rubes isn't even a preemie and she pretty much eats like Gabe. She wakes up about 4 times a week for a bottle about 2ish. I can't make her drink more during the day without spitting up either. She does so-so with solids. Hates purees. Somedays she'll eat all the table food in sight and then days like yesterday it's one slice of pineapple and a bite of cracker. She drinks 24-30ish oz of bottles most days.

I pretty much give up at this point. I just give in. I assume she'll outgrow it eventually. She's also on the small side and downs the bottle no problem...so what am I supposed to do? She is otherwise a decent sleeper so I'm not willing to CIO at this stage over a bottle.

Yeah, we let him fuss for 10ish mins. But, if he doesn't fall back to sleep, we feed him. I am pleased with Ferber. We've gone from 3 or 4 wake-ups a night to just 1. As the week has progressed (that's how long we've done Ferber) he's waking up later and later. Maybe he'll just keep going longer. We shall see.

dairygirl19 · April 2012

katie4253:
dairygirl19:
katie4253:

Well, 6oz's is 120 calories. Since he is still hanging 5-10% on the actual curve, I hate to see him lose those calories.

Calories with a preemie are a total mind screw. I can pretty much tell you the exact number of calories he eats each day...

I shouldn't laugh but I am. My SIL had preemie twins that at 3 just hit the chart. They're doing well just little. For a good year she could tell you how many calories where in their bottles, their sippies and pretty much anything they or anyone else ate.

Rubes isn't even a preemie and she pretty much eats like Gabe. She wakes up about 4 times a week for a bottle about 2ish. I can't make her drink more during the day without spitting up either. She does so-so with solids. Hates purees. Somedays she'll eat all the table food in sight and then days like yesterday it's one slice of pineapple and a bite of cracker. She drinks 24-30ish oz of bottles most days.

I pretty much give up at this point. I just give in. I assume she'll outgrow it eventually. She's also on the small side and downs the bottle no problem...so what am I supposed to do? She is otherwise a decent sleeper so I'm not willing to CIO at this stage over a bottle.

Yeah, we let him fuss for 10ish mins. But, if he doesn't fall back to sleep, we feed him. I am pleased with Ferber. We've gone from 3 or 4 wake-ups a night to just 1. As the week has progressed (that's how long we've done Ferber) he's waking up later and later. Maybe he'll just keep going longer. We shall see.

Yeah. I do the fuss thing too quite often. Works well. However at 2am..I don't want to be awake longer than necessary listening to it either. I know what she wants, so I slack and just give in more for me than her.

Hopefully Ferber works for you! Yay for progress and you getting some sleep finally. That would be rough. I would totally do it in your shoes too. TBH though, I've been one of the lucky ones. Rubes has only woken up once a night if at all from birth (with a week or two of oddness in there). People tell me I should sleep train to stop the bottle, but I don't consider it that big of a deal. I also feel sleeping training over 1 freakin' bottle will just create other probably bigger issues, kwim?

swimiz500 · April 2012

DD usually STTN (now I have jinxed myself), and she eats a LOT. Like, she eats so much I was worried and asked the pedi, who assured me it was fine. I am still skeptical.

When she wakes up, she has an 8 oz bottle. Sometimes that isn't enough and she'll have more. Then, after her morning nap, she usually eats about 10 oz of purees, and then a few puffs or table food, depending. Then another nap, then another 10 oz, and another nap, and another 10 oz. Then usually one last bottle right before bed. She will have little bits of bottle through the day if she is thirsty, but we have been trying to go with more water too. To clarify, the 30 total oz of puree is split among meat, fruit, veggies, and yogurt.

But, she is still only in the 35 percentile for weight, and the doctor said it's fine, so I guess we will just go with it. She does refuse when she is full, which the pedi said was important. Who knows. But she does sleep pretty well at night unless she is teething, then all bets are off.

maiken1027 · April 2012

A lot!I really don't think he is typical.

He nurses 5 X a day (when he wakes in the AM, wakes from AM nap, right before PM nap, wakes from PM nap & then before bed).

Breakfast is usually 5-6oz of yogurt or cottage cheese, a whole banana, 2-3 strawberries and a mini bagel.

Typical Lunch - A piece of lunch meat turkey, a piece of cheese, a rice cake, a whole pear, a few crackers.

PM Snack - A pouch of apple sauce from one of those squeeze pouch things, 3-4 crackers.

Typical Dinner - A bowl of oatmeal, 4oz of pureed veggies, the equivalent of about 2 chicken nuggets, random bites off my plate.

We aren't doing BLW, but in the last month or so we def. transitioned to trying to feed him what we are eating whenever possible. He gets a sippy cup of water a day. He usually only finishes about 1/2 of it.

He sleeps 8-6:30ish.

jmo866 · April 2012

I am weaning, so DS still has 1 nursing session, but between his 3 bottles plus the nursing, he probably takes around 24 oz. now a day, and does not eat at night. It was more, closer to 27-30, but for some reason he doesn't want to eat this week, so who knows. He eats solids 3x a day, so in a day he will eat about 3-4 oz. oatmeal, about 4-5oz. veggie with meat, 4-5oz fruit, and some finger foods, mainly more fruit/veg. I was going to say though, don't feel bad, DS has not been eating at night for months and he still wakes up. He goes from about 7:30 - 6:30 without eating.

CocoBrynne · April 2012

AsOctoberFalls:
DS eats about 30 oz of formula and has 2 meals of stage 2 solids. He used to down an entire 8 oz bottle at night, but he cut this out (without increasing the daytime feeding amounts) when we sleep trained.

This is about where we are too, plus we have just started offering finger foods.

JeanLouiseFinch · April 2012

DS was 5 weeks early and is in the 25th percentile for weight. He eats:

6-8 oz formula 6:30 a.m.

5-6 oz formula 9:30 a.m. + ~2 oz solids

5-6 oz formula 12:30 p.m. + ~ 2 oz solids

5-6 oz formula 3:30 p.m.

3-4 ounces solids 5:30 p.m.

7-8 oz formula 7 p.m.

He sleeps ~10 hours, usually 7:15-5:30 a.m. I've been trying to stretch that wakeup time a bit, but so far, no luck. When he was still waking up to eat overnight, that bottle was in addition to the formula quantities listed above. When this stopped, that amount was dropped; I found I didn't need to add it in to what he ate during the day.

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