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Am I over feeding?......please help!

Elizabeth - posted on 03/01/2009 ( 3 moms have responded )

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my daughter has been on soy milk for a while now sence we discovered her intolerance to milk. However she's been eating food sence we swtiched her to formula at around 1 month..i never had a problem with it becuase she was still getting the same amount of formula. what has become of this gradual food introduction is that by 7 months she drinks 4 6-8 oz bottles in a day plus a can of fruit and plabum for breakfast, a can of veggies for lunch and a can of meat and veggies for dinner......my daughter also has a cookie for a snack and she can eat the gerber graduate puffs (even though it says not to give it to them until 1 year) we watched her for choking issues but she can pick them up with one hand, open her hand, pick up the puff with two fingers, then put it in her mouth. my daughter has been very advanced with every moter skill and i've never had a issue until now....................when i read about ppl "introducting food" and olny giving a tbsp or so at this age i laugh becuase if you were to put a tbsp in front of my daughter she scream until she got what she's used to.......i have no problems with naps and night time becuase her routene is very strick....nap for 2 hrs at noon and in bed by 8pm (she wakes up around 8-9 the next morning)....i'm trying to follow my husband and mother-in-laws advice...but what do you think
am i over feeding my daughter?????....................................

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Mary - posted on 03/01/2009

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well my son is 7 months old and he has 1/4 cup cereal and a 6oz bottle for breakfast.  for lunch he has about a half jar of veggies and a half jar of fruit and a 6oz bottle for lunch.  for supper he has a half a jar of something like chicken and veggie casserole and a half a jar of fruit and a 6 oz bottle.  At bedtime he has 1/4 cup of cereal and an 8oz bottle.



Jayden also gets a baby cookie between lunch and supper and a 4 ounce bottle of waterd down juice or just water.  He weighs 22 pounds!  I was worried I was over feeding too but the doctor told me he was totaly fine and what I was feed him was ok.  he siad while one baby might only eat 1-2 table spoons of food another might eat the whole jar, lol.  If you are worried write down what you feed him throughout the day and show your doctor and talk to him/her about it.  Thats what I did and I felt a whole lot better afterwards.

Tania - posted on 03/01/2009

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that sounds about right to me!!!!my daughter is 7 months & has 3 bottles ov 8 oz of formula  and 3 meals a day breakfast is usually toast & sliced banana(she feeds her self)and then lunch is usually a jar ov babyfood stage 2,yogurt or mashed fruit for pudding and dinner is usually wat ever we are havin mashed up with yogurt or mashed fruit 4 pudding!!!also in the day she will have the odd teething biscuit!!!!this is my 2nd daughter & i did basically the same wen she was a baby & she is now a happy healthy 3 year old!!!!sounds to me like ur doing a good job!!!!!!

Amanda - posted on 03/01/2009

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Is your daughter over weight? Sounds to me shes a pretty happy baby, with good night sleeping, I say dont fix what is not broken.

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