Feeding Schedule Help

bbakersgirl75 · May 2012

Ok Ladies: I'm wondering if I'm doing this right?

First and foremost: DS has pretty severe acid reflux, so keep that in mind.

At our 4 month checkup the Pedi wanted us to start trying rice cereal ( 1 tbsp) twice per day. He said then after a few days to up it to 2 tbsp. I wasn't comfortable with that, so I started him a week later on the cereal. He loved his cereal from first bite, and never spit any out! So 1.5 weeks later I started him on 2 tbsp.

I'm confused as to how to time it. Should I leave space between bottles and just give him cereal, or feed him cereal prior to 1 of his bottles? Or is it just up to him? I'm afraid of over-feeding him with his acid reflux, but I've been doing it the following way for several days, and it hasn't been too much of an issue. Just wondering what any of you have done? And please no flames for starting him on solids before 6 months. TIA!!!

His Schedule (times depend on when he wakes up in the AM, and he eats every 4 hours):

6: 4.5oz Formula

10: 2 TBSP cereal mixed with 1.5oz Formula, 4.5oz Bottle

2: 4.5oz Bottle

6: 4.5 oz Bottle

10: 2 TBSP cereal mixed wtih 1.5oz formula, 4.5oz Formula

krissyh21 · May 2012

You still want to get him as much formula as he will take, since that is his major source of nutrients. So feed him first before doing solids. That way he will not fill up on the cereal and not want to eat the formula.

choco_lab · May 2012

Is that 10PM that you are feeding him cereal? Are you sitting at the table just to feed him cereal? I tried to space things out so that his cereal is when we are eating breakfast, lunch or dinner ourselves so he's eating meals with us. So instead of doing the cereal at 10AM, I'd probably feed him that at the table while I'm eating luch. Same for the 10PM.. I'd move that up to when I'm having dinner. Then it's also spaced and out and not taking away from eating all his bottle. That's just what works for me and gets him used to the routine of eating as a family. Good luck! I started cereal at 4 mo and quickly moved onto veggies and fruit.. he loves it!

bbakersgirl75 · May 2012

Yes I feed him cereal at both 10am, and 10pm. Well I guess I should say daycare feeds him at their table in the AM, and I give it to him during his last bottle of the night so he's had a little more in his tummy, and won't need to wake to eat from bedtime to awake time.

CMM05 · May 2012

With all 3 of my kids, I did the cereal in between bottles.

I think trying to sit him at the table at 10pm and do cereal is too late!

Looking at your schedule, I would do some cereal about an hour after his first bottle (so around 7am) and then I would do it about 45 mins- an hour after either the 2p or 6p bottle.

Like the previous poster said.....if possible, do it at "meal" times, when you are sitting down.

I know you might want to do it yourself, but think about having daycare try it one time a day because the more you expose him to it, the more he will get used to it!

GL!

Melicakes · May 2012

CC has bottles at 6:30,9:30,12,30,3:30,6:30 & 9:30.

She gets her first cereal meal (1 tbsp ccereal+ 1oz formula) at 11am and the second one at 2.

Just started veggies today and will replace the second cereal meal with a pur?e.

patchen30 · May 2012

DS is a little older (6 mo) but his schedule looks like this:

6:30-7:30am - wake up

7-8am - bottle (between 5-7 oz)

9-10am - nap

10:30-11am - solids

11-11:30am - bottle (5-7 oz)

12:30-1:30pm - nap

2-2:30pm - solids

2:30pm - bottle (about 5 oz)

3:30-4:30pm - nap

4:30-5pm - solids

6:15pm - bottle (7-8 oz)

7pm - bed

I would say try and give him that last solids feeding closer to a real mealtime. Also I was told not to measure food as it's food, not medicine, and being too rigid can kind of create an unhealthy relationship to eating. You have to do what works for you though, there's no "right" way. GL!

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