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Feeding Schedule 7 Month Old

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Latest post on 24 April 2012 - 21:05

My baby boy just turned 7 months old last week, he is exactly at 50% of the curves for weight and height.
However, I am still trying to figure out what to feed him, this is what he eats:
- 5 times every 3 hours (around 150 mm breastmilk / formula) plus breastfeeding at night when we wakes up, and at 5 am before I got to work.
He wont take more than 150 mm, and usually only takes 120 mm, and after 30 minutes takes the rest, or takes some formula and I breastfeed him.
- In the morning, he takes cereal mixed with 30 ml of formula/breastmilk.
- In the afternoon, he takes around 1-2 ounzes (30-60) ml of fruit/vegetable puree.

My friend has a 9 month old girl which is slightly smaller than my son but she eats around 5 meals of around 60 mm each, so how come my baby is ok with less?. She only takes milk (formula) 3 times per day but around 240 mm.

Should I start increasing his meals?, maybe an extra meal around lunch time?. Is there anything I can do so he drinks more milk and less frequent?.

Any ideas on what to feed him?. My mother's advice is to give him everything including meat, eggs, soups. She fed me that since I was 1 month old. She thinks the baby should be taking more food, she is surprise the poor baby does not know what an egg taste like.

Thank you

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Latest post on 25 April 2012 - 10:06
Honestly the amount he is eating as absolutely fine for a 7 month old, at 7 months my son had been eating solids for only 2 weeks, many babies are not actually ready for solids until even later. I was EBF for 9 months and my mum didn't give my older brother any solids until he was almost one year (he wasn't interested so was EBF) He is now 6 foot 2 and a successful medical Dr and I am also tall and have gone on to be very academically succesful. Please don't get hung up in weighing the amount of food your baby is eating, do you weigh your own meals or do you eat as you feel hungry, always remember it is FOOD not medicine you are giving.
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Latest post on 25 April 2012 - 09:24
I have a 7 months old and she has this schedule: - morning feed- 180 ml -morning snack (usually after she wakes up from her nap)- few table spoons (2 or 3) of yoghurt, or pureed fruit or yoghurt mixed with fruit or yoghurt mixed with cheese or pureed fruit mixed with multi cereal biscuit - lunch feed- 210 ml (but she is not eating always all of it) - afternoon snack- fruit - afternoon feed- 150 ml - evening meal- 210 ml (again not always completed) When we have dinner she has little food with us like soup or little meat or pureed vegetables In the night she eats 2 times (120 ml each time). I am not giving her egg yet as I was told that I should do that after 10 months (before her vaccine for chickenpox). I am not feeding her anything that has salt. The doctor told me that her main feed should be milk so I am ok with that. But every baby is different, even us as individuals we are different, we don't have the same eating habits and we don't eat the same amount of food :)
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Latest post on 25 April 2012 - 07:02
Thanks. I dont really want to replace the milk feeds as I know milk is the most important food for my baby, but I mostly worry about my baby eating very little solids, i wonder if I should give him more?.
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Latest post on 24 April 2012 - 21:58
why do you want to change his current schedule if he is happy and healthy? There is no need for him to take bigger feeds more often (in fact he is feeding in a much more natural way). The progression from mostly milk to mostly solids should be a slow one, your mothers advice (feeding from one month) has now been shown to be dangerous but at his age it is fine that he eats all foods (including meat and eggs). You shouldn't be trying to force it to have it replacing milk feeds though. Babies usually know how much they need to eat and drink, unless the Dr is worried about his weight I really don't see why you would be trying to change things just because a friends baby feeds differently.
 
 

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