Feeding Confusion

nycgirlkat · September 2014

Hi Everyone!

It's been a while since I've been on, but I needed to check in with you all on some confusion I'm having with the whole cereal, fruit/veggie and formula thing. I know all babies are different, but I think I'm over feeding my LO. She'll be 5 months on Thursday.

So in the morning I usually give her 2 tbsps of cereal along with a 6 oz bottle (I use formula from this bottle for the cereal). Then she has 3, 6-ounce bottles throughout the day (but hasn't been finishing her last bottle) and then for dinner I give her 2 tbsps of cereal and 2 ounces of fruit or veggies with her last 6 ounce bottle (I use some of the formula from this bottle for her cereal at dinner and she usually doesn't finish this bottle). I'm thinking I need to eliminate the cereal at night and just do the veggies or fruit with a bottle??

What do your feeding routines look like???

lokimau · September 2014

We nurse on demand but usually morning, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, 1/2 pouch of organic purée, snack, nurse to sleep.

kmos816 · September 2014

No solids here yet.... DD 'eats' 6 times a day and one feeding overnight. While she is at DC she takes 3 5 oz bottles; usually made up of 4 oz breastmilk and 1 oz formula. On the weekend i nurse on demand and she eats the same amount of times as she would during the week. If yours is formula fed; which it sounds like that's the case, I'm not sure on the rules.... but I believe for breastmilk they say 24-30 oz per day is typical. If you are concerned I would check with your ped.

momofmanyinthemitten · September 2014

You should be giving solids an hour after giving a full bottle. That way, they are getting their nutritional needs met. Twice a day, I give DD2 a whole banana or 3 tbsp of fruit/veggies with oatmeal mixed in to thicken it. She nurses 6-9 times/day.