7 Month Old Eating Too Little?

He needs more formula or breast milk (which ever you are giving him). He needs at least 36oz of it a day along with food. Also, the best thing to do is give him cereal in the morning and maybe at night before bed. Does he do well with the foods? If so, introduce him to stage twos, they are a little heavier and there is more in the one jar. Try to make sure that you are balancing first fruits and veggies. He should be fine after that. I know that it sounds like a lot but they need it sometimes, especially the milk portion.

My son was always a huge eater. I added a bottle with the jars of baby food...so his breakfast was a 8 oz bottle and a bowl of oatmeal, lunch was a fruit and a veggie and an 8 oz bottle and sometimes cheerios or those 100% fruit puffs they have now and then dinner was again 2 jars of baby food 8 oz bottle and extra if still hungery and then another 8 oz bottle before bed. He also got snacks between meals. Sometimes it was a two once bottle, sometimes water sometimes little fruit puffs. He was never overweight but extremely active. (And he still eats a ton of food, more than most kids his age, still a really healthy well balanced diet and even underweight).

If he's mastered the technique and texture of the stage 1 foods, move up to stage 2. The stage 2 foods really aren't that different, texture wise, and the bottles are bigger (more cost effective than 2 or 3 tiny, stage 1 jars).

We didn't start our daughter on solids until she was 6 months, but she moved to stage 2's pretty quickly.

By the time she was about 7 1/2 months, we would give our daughter cereal for breakfast with a sippy cup of water and followed by a bottle. For lunch she had a jar of food/water/bottle. Dinner was the same as lunch (diff variety of food, though). Between each meal she had a bottle so she was essentially eating every 2 hours or so.

Good luck!

My daughter is 8 months old and was eating like a fiend for the past couple of months. Now she's only eating a little and far more interested in grabbing the spoon and exploring the food. I think that babies go through growth spurts and maintenance times. My thoughts are to take your cues from the baby. They know when they've had too much or not enough.

A.,

I am assuming you are giving him bottles along with the food. I think our ped. wanted our son to have 30 oz. of formula along with the food. I agree with the others, move him to stage 2 foods and add cereal for breakfast. Check out this website, www.babycenter.com. It has a lot of good information. I think it asks you to sign up but it is free.

CZ

By the time hannah was 7 months old she was already on stage 2 and starting on some stage 3's you may want to start on some stage 2s now. They are just a little thicker, not so much water added to them and there is a little more there.

When we started my daughter on solids, she still had about 4-5 bottles per day, along with some baby cereal at meals with the veggies & fruits. If he's only having 2 bottles each day, that may be why he seems hungry. Also, the cereal keeps them full longer, so you may want to try some of that if you aren't already.