Solids & Feeding Schedule

Re: Solids & Feeding Schedule

• BabyMakes 3 member

  May 2013

  6 oz bottle about 6am at wakeful. 8 ounces after morning nap about 11:00 depends on length of nap. Fruits, apple right now, at noon or 1. 8 ounce bottle about 2 or 3:00. And a veggie at 4 or 5. Last Bottle of the day 8 ounces at 6:00 or 6:30 before bed. I'll be adding a third meal in a few weeks

  Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml

  Report0 Reply
• Loading the player...
• techg0ddess member

  May 2013

  Mine was getting cereal and a fruit for lunch from my mom and I'd occasionally give him a veggie at night time. The paper I got from the doc's yesterday said to feed them solids 2-3 times a day and as much as they would eat. the example was cereal and a fruit for breakfast, lunch could be a fruit and veggie and dinner would be cereal and veggie. it said they should get a bottle (or BM) the other times. He was just getting 2Tbls dry mixed with formula till it looked right and then the fruit or veggie mixed in. I'm not sure I like the whole eat until he's done thing but I guess being 6 months it's time to start with the food. I'll probably just do the breakfast and the dinner and skip the lunch. It sounds like a lot for 6 months and might move to three meals at 7 or 8 months. 

  ETA: He drinks 6 ounces every three hours. When he gets the food, he usually only drinks about 4 ounces. We'll see this weekend when I try the eat all you want approach and see how much he eats.  

  

    

  Report0 Reply
• persephonerose member

  May 2013

  We try to do a veggie in the morning and one again around 3-4pm.  Today we had steamed broccoli crowns. He did not eat it per say, just sucked on it and gummed at it.
  

  
  
  
  
  

  Report0 Reply
• fennyann member

  May 2013

  N sticks to his schedule pretty well...

  6:00AM- 6oz bottle

  8:00AM-2 tbsp oatmeal with 1 small jar fruit (usually homemade)

  9:00AM- 6-7oz bottle

  12:00PM- 5oz bottle with veggies

  3:00PM- 4oz bottle

  6:00PM- 2 tbsp oatmeal  3-4oz bottle

  8-8:30PM- 2-3oz

  His oz seem to get less through out the day.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Report0 Reply
• gnomemom member

  May 2013

  LO still isn't eating much solids. We try to do them once a day, but DH doesn't always get around to it. We've introduced sweet potatoes, bananas, peas, and butternut squash. We are trying avocados tomorrow and pears in 4 days.
  
  Today was the first day I really felt like he actually ate some instead of just making a face and spitting it out.

  

  

  Report0 Reply
• gnomemom member

  May 2013

  I should add LO eats around 30 oz of BM a day. He takes two 6 oz bottles while I'm at work and also nurses 3 to 4 times when I'm home.
  
  We try to give him a sippy cup of water everyday, but he's still learning how to use it and doesn't actually drink much yet.

  

  

  Report0 Reply
• jg1011 member

  May 2013

  V loves food.....if he could eat what I have he would. He gets excited when he sees his bottle and gets annoyed if we stop him to burp!

   V LOVES his solids.....up until a couple of weeks ago he would fight the bottle bc he wanted to eat off the spoon. We put his formula in sippy cup just to get him to hit his required 24 ounces per day.  Seemed to help. Now he's back to wanting bottles....go figure. But now in addition to sucking down his bottles,  he eats all solids and looks for more! 

   His schedule is: 

  7:30 morning bottle---7 ounces

  9:00---He'll take 2TBs of oatmeal plus 1 stage 2 container of fruit.

  12:00--bottle 6.5 ounces

  2:00 One stage 2 container meat/veggie combo and I stage 2 container of fruit.

  5:00----bottle 6.5 ounces

  7:00--- 2TBs oatmeal plus 1 container stage 2 veggies

  8:15--- bottle--- anywhere between 5-7 ounces 

  

   

  

  Report0 Reply
• auburnbride2be member

  May 2013

  We aren't on a real strict schedule. He has a bottle every 34 hours and I try to space solids out around that. We will add a third meal soon. .
  
  6am 7ozs formula
  8am 2tbsp cereal with 1/2 small jar fruit
  10am 7ozs formula
  Noon 1/2 a 1 small jar veggie
  2pm 7ozs formula
  6pm 7ozs formula
  11pm 45 ozs formula
  3am6am 45 ozs formula

  Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml

  Report0 Reply
• karkissy09 member

  May 2013

  Hallie's schedule changes alot but it's something along these lines:
  
  8:00 BF
  9:00 Fruit
  11:00 BF
  12:00 Veggie
  2:00 BF
  5:00 BF
  6:00 Small fruit and veggie
  8:00 BF

  Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml

  Report0 Reply
• kerrigrooves member

  May 2013

  We just started last week and introduced one veggie per day and have experimented with the meal that we add it to.  She takes a bottle every 3 hrs and less oz when she has the solids.

  So

  5:15 am: 6 oz formula

  8 am, 12 pm, 3 pm, 6 pm: 5-6 oz formula.  Adding solids either afternoon or evening

  We tried avocado for 3 days, carrot for 3 days and last night we tried sweet potato. she loves to eat

   

  Report0 Reply
• silentxwhisper

  May 2013

  Our normal day is between 89 she eats 2 tablespoons of oatmeal and half a jar of whatever new food we are trying then an hour later she has a 6 oz bottle then
  113012 5 oz bottle
  
  330 to 4 a 5oz or 6 oz bottle
  
  6:00 2 tablespoons oatmeal half a jar of the new food and 1/3 of another veggiewe just started the 2nd serving of the veggie and she has been sleeping thru the night since
  
  730 or 8 she has her 8 oz bottle and goes to sleep
  

  Report0 Reply