Those with 4 mth olds

If your baby is on cereal and formula/breastmilk what is your DC's current schedule like?

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Between 6:30 - 7am - gets up and has 3-4 ozs. of formula then he goes to the babysitter

This is what the babysitter tells me what happens during the day.
Between 8:30 - 9:30 - 3-4 tablespoons of cereal and 4 - 6 ozs. of formula

Between 11:30 - 12:30 6 ozs. of formula

Between 2:30 - 3:30 fruit and 4-6 ozs. of formula

Then DH goes to pick him up. So when he brings him home.
Between 5:30 - 6:30 6 ozs. of forumula

Between 7:30 - 8:30 I give him a bath and then sometimes another bottle and then he goes to bed

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so you only give him cereal in the morning?

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Sydney is 3 1/2 months.... she wakes up around 7:30 ish

my mom comes to our house to watch her, she usually eats about 1/2 hour or so after she wakes up.

the Ped said to give her cereal twice a day so we make it her first meal and her last meal... about 3 tablespoons of cereal w/ fruit and then a 6 oz bottle, give or take an oz.

my mom plays with her, reads her books, does tummy time, etc. Sydney usually takes her big nap around 11 ish and sleeps for 2-3 hrs. she has about 3 6 oz bottles during the day. We feed on demand but she has seemed to create her own little schedule and does eat about the same time everyday.

last feeding is around 8 ish, cereal w/ fruit and a 6 oz bottle. She goes to bed around 10ish and sleeps through the night now


ETA: she has about five5 6 oz bottles total

Message edited 12/18/2006 3:18:58 PM.

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Thanks!

I have been giving Jiavana cereal 1 tblesp in the morning (9am) and 1 tblesp in the evening (6pm).

1tblesp doesn't seem like much so maybe I will start increasing it because she is always hungry after that one.

I haven't tried anything but rice yet, only because I want to finish the box. I hate having a million and one open boxes, but probably by next week she will be on oatmeal.

I want to start giving her some fruit. I heard you can give them a piece of mashed up banana because its sweet.

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I increased it every few days after the first day since he took to the spoon right away and would eat it all.

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DS sleeps from 9:30 to 7ish - no cereal yet (he is 4 and 1/2 months) just formula - about 28 oz a day - he sleeps great and is gaining weight, we see dr right after x-mas (DS 5th month check-up) maybe we will start cereal then

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We'll probably start cereal after her 5 month check up (at 5 1/2 months actually). She's on BM & formula now. I'm saving this post for future reference!

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Still just on formula

His schedule got all messed up when DH was in between jobs for a few weeks But we also didn't see the need to get him up at 5am to get him out the door to daycare by 6am (yes I know it's sad but we live upstate and now both of us work in NYC) but basically he eats, sleeps about 1-2 after the bottle (hopefully - he's a horrible daytime sleeper unless you're holding him), and at night we WERE doing (thanks Dad) bottle at 7pm, bath at 7:30pm, bedtime at 8pm. At daycare they feed him every 3.5 hours after we give the first bottle, play, try to get him to nap, etc.

Lets see if we can get that back to normal now that we're both working again.