My Little Guy Eats like a Entire Football Team! HELP!!!!

Doctors usually say to let the baby be the judge of how much he needs, unless there's a significant problem with the baby's weight. My son (now 9months) has always eaten MUCH more than average ... his daycare providers were amazed! But, my son is healthy and he's height and weight are average. He beefed up slightly (75% percentile both height and weight) right before he started crawling, but now he's back to average. So, I'd say, let your son judge how much he wants!

I have a 4 1/2 mo little boy. He weighs in at 16 lbs. WOW I know. He was 8 lbs at birth and has always been at the 80-85% for both weight and height. I started solids at 3 1/2 mo because all the suddon he started waking up more at night. I too am breastfeeding. No problem with that. My problem is that he still wakes up at night hungry. Like last night he had #1 jar of carrots around 8:30 then I feed him 2 tbsp of rice cereal at 11:00 hoping that would keep him asleep longer. I nursed him afterwards and put him to bed at 11:40. We stay up late--it's crazy. He woke up at 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 and 9:30 he stayed up. Each time I will breastfeed for about 10 mins to make him fall back to sleep. He won't take a paci. I've always been told that if they eat cereal it helps them sleep. I wonder if it causes him to have tummy pain or gas. I never hear any toots but by 9:30 this morning he filled his diaper.

I guess to help you with your question feeding at the age you are should be ok. My pedi told me to start solids at 4 mo and I did the same for my 4 yr old daughter. I never had as much trouble with her waking up. I guess boys are more needy.

He sounds like my second baby. It was like she was born starving! i never seemed to be able to fill her up. She was not a good sleeper either- she wanted to eat so often! At about 12 months, she settled down to a normal amount of eating- we figured she finally got filled up! Now she is almost three and eats very little. You just never know. As long as he is healthy and has a good weight, I would let him eat. Of course that's just my opinion.