Feeding help!??

My DD is almost 5 month old. She is totally different than my first DD. She is 14.5lbs and she can kill and 8 oz bottle most of the time now. My first wasnt 15 lbs until 1..haha. She eats every 3 hours. I had one dr tell me to start cereal and another tell me to wait 6 months so I dont know what to do. But she is a hungry girl!! What would you do?

Message edited 10/18/2013 9:48:29 AM.

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I started my DS on solids on 4 months, so I say go for it, but only if you are comfortable...

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I started DS on solids at 4 months, no regrets. He is a big eater also!

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Thank you. I think she is def ready! Another silly question..since I cant for the life of me remember how to do this. What should my feeding schedule look like>

Usually she gets a 8oz bottle around 8:00am. Should I give less bottle and then cereal?? You think I should know this stuff the second time around!!

Feeding help!??

Do whatever you want. My DS started foods at 4 months so its not too early.

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Do whatever works for you. I personally added dinner as the first meal since I wanted to be home to feed DS. I still offered the same amount of formula and let him naturally reduce it as he took more food.

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Feeding help!??

we started at 4 mos but very rarely... she didnt really eat much until around 5.5 mos. We didnt reduce the formula at all... we still havent actually.

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My DD is a little more than 5 months. She started cereal just before 4 months because she was eating so much formula that the doc said to slow it down and try a tablespoon of cereal at dinner. That reduced her from drinking 35 oz of formula a day to 30-31 oz of formula a day. She now continues to drink that much formula but also eats veggies and fruits. Her schedule looks like this:

6:30 am- 4 oz. bottle (goes right back to sleep)
8:30 (wake-up)- Has 3 oz. from a 6 oz. bottle
9:00- Has 1 1/2 tablespoons of cereal + 1/2 a jar of fruit. I take the formula for the cereal from the 6 oz. bottle.
9:30- Finishes the 6 oz. bottle
12:30- 7 oz. bottle
4:30- Same routine as above, has 3 oz. from a 7 oz. bottle
5:00- Has 1 jar of a veggie
5:30- Finishes the 7 oz. bottle
7:30- Same routine, has 3 oz. from a 7 oz. bottle
8:00- 2 tablespoons of cereal + 1/2 a jar of fruit. Again I take the formula for the cereal from the bottle
8:30- Drinks the rest of the 7 oz. bottle. I usually add in another couple of ounces and she drinks that down too. So her last bottle is usually 9 oz. all together.
9:00/9:15ish- bed

I know her schedule is a little weird because her bottles are broken up, but she's always been like that! She never wants to just down a 7 oz. bottle. She used to spit up a lot and still does a little, so eating smaller amounts at one time has helped immensely. If you feel like your DD would enjoy food (mine was staring us down at dinner time) then go for it!!

Message edited 10/18/2013 3:10:47 PM.