Daily food consumption

Kandi - posted on 10/27/2010

Thank you all so much! I really felt like I was over feeding my LO but I see now that everyone has their own style of feeding but she isn't eating too much! I am working on getting her drink more formula, I have been putting it in a cuppy instead of a bottle and that seems to work about 3/4 of the time! She is a stubborn girl like her momma!

Lori - posted on 10/22/2010

My daughter eats 3x a day, averaging 2 stage 2 jars of food plus formula. She has 4-5 7oz bottles of formula.

Jenny - posted on 10/22/2010

My son was born March 22, he has roughly 4 8oz bottles (the one at bedtime has a rusk in it) and 3 meals a day (I make my own food for him and freeze it into ice cube trays, he tends to have 8 cubes). If he doesn't seem ready to settle at night he sometimes has some porridge as he's still hungry.

Tina - posted on 10/20/2010

I went on the Gerber website and they have a meal planner that you can customize by weight, etc. I am following this and he is doing wonderful, I again wondered if I was feeding him too much but the Doctor also said that it is good to spread the meals over the day. His schedule is 730am 6 oz bottle / 930am fruit & oatmeal / 1130am 6 oz bottle / 130pm 1/2 fruit 1 veg / 330pm 6oz bottle / 530pm 1 veg / rice / 730pm 8 oz bottle. He finishes evey meal with no problem and sleeps throught the night seems a little crazy every 2 hours but evenually we will elimate a couple of the bottles to balance out his day. He now is 27" long and 21 lbs. Long & Lean

Jessica - posted on 10/19/2010

My son is a very hard boy to feed. He was born 3-17-10.
He eats around 20 oz of formula a day (a special amino acid based formula because he is allergic to breast milk, milk and soy. He has reflux and can never keep down more that 4 oz at a time (usually only 3) even at 7 months.
I make my own baby food and freeze it is 1 oz ice-cube trays. He eats about (4) 1 oz ice cubes of food a day.
He has been very interested in 'big people food' and munches on bread, noodles, biscuits and steamed veggies like carrots. He likes doing it himself. It is a bit messy, but he is getting better every day!

Amy - posted on 10/19/2010

My daughter has a 6 oz bottle and cereal for breakfast; a 6oz bottle and a stage 2 fruit or vegetable late morning; a 6oz bottle and a cereal early to midafternoon; 2-stage 2 foods for dinner and a 6oz bottle at bedtime. I was concerned I was feeding her too much but her doctor said spreading her food out wasn't bad for her so it made me feel a little better.

Julie - posted on 10/19/2010

My daughter is the same, loves food more than formula. She will have a 6oz at 6am followed by breaky at 830. lunch is a jar & yogurt with juice in beaker. 2pm 6oz bottle then tea another jar with fruit puree and juice. bed time bottle at 6 & its 8ozs

Kandi - posted on 10/19/2010

It is so hard for me to get Kinley to eat a bottle. She really doesn't like it the 2 bottles a day I try but sometimes it doesn't all go down! She just really prefers solid food, so, sometimes I mix formula with her food or with cereal for her breakfast. When I get paid this week I am going to go get some 8oz cuppies (not the transition type with the bottle like mouthpiece, just a normal cuppy) and see if she will drink formula out of it!

Jodi - posted on 10/19/2010

My daughter was born 3.26 - she starts her morning with a 6oz bottle & 1/2 jar of stage 2 food with some oatmeal, lunch she has a 8oz bottle, dinner is a 6oz bottle & 1/2 jar of stage 2 & then another 6oz bottle right before bed