Talk to me about your solids schedule

Once you started, what was your schedule like as far as introducing fruits, veggies, etc.? And when did you start feeding more than once a day?

Right now DD (5 months) has 2 tablespoons of oatmeal about an hour after her first morning feeding. She LOVES it! My pediatrician had suggested feeding her in the morning bc this way if any allergies develop, it wouldn't be overnight. But to be honest, I'd rather feed her in the evening bc that is when she seems to be the hungriest, especially bc my milk supply is at its lowest at that point.

I'm interested in knowing what others are doing.

TIA

Re: Talk to me about your solids schedule

my dd is 5 months today...our schedule so far is she wakes up at 7 am for her bottle at like 8-30 ill give her oatmeal and we just started veggies today for the first time...then she plays takes a nap then a few bottle during the day then i gave her cereal and veggies at about 6-7 pm then her final bottle at 8-830 ..hopefully now that she had some cereal it will hold her off till 7 am again otherwise she wakes for about two ounces at like 3 am ish .....

good luck

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Re: Talk to me about your solids schedule

at 5m we started cereal so shes been eating that for a month. we did one week rice in the morning only. next week oatmeal in the morning for a few days, and once we knew she liked them both we added one in the morning and one in the evening. last week at 6m we started real foods.
right now:

she wakes up bf/bottle.
then about 2hrs later i do a bowl of oatmeal/rice cereal with whatever food we are up to (have only done sweet potato so far, starting bananas today). she usually finishes 3/4 to all of the bowl.
either immediately after or within an hour bf/bottle.
three hours later bf/bottle.
2-3 hours later i do another bowl of oatmeal/rice cereal (whichever one she didn't have earlier) with the previous weeks food (today we will do sweet potatoes in the afternoon).
either immediately after or within an hour bf/bottle.
three hours later bf/bottle.
before bed bf/bottle.

so far so good. my ped said to try to bump to three meals a day of food. i will prob do that when we have successfully at least three foods. we give 4 full days of a new food before moving to the next food. she looooooooved the sweet potatoes so far. we'll see about the bananas in an hour or so!

good luck!! its so much fun!

Message edited 11/21/2011 9:36:19 AM.

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Re: Talk to me about your solids schedule

we just started last week cereal two times a day . it really isnt much either like i said my lil girl is a string bean so after i would say a table spoon worht maybe two she pushes the spoon away to tell me enough lol.

Re: Talk to me about your solids schedule

DS will be 5 months tomorrow and when he wakes up at 7'ish i give him fruit then he takes a bottle usually somewhere between 8 and 10. has bottles through out the day and then i will give him veggies somewhere around 6-7 (depending on his bottle schedule that day) i like to give it to him between his afternoon and last bottle.

sometimes i mix it with oatmeal sometime i just do it straight.

for the poster who mentioned their 5 month LO gets up at 3am for a feeding....have you tried upping the oz in the day bottles? or maybe up the last bottle up an ounce so he/she stays sleeping? that might help since you said you're only giving about 2oz at 3 am