Too Much Formula??

My daughter did the same thing try feeding he smaller bottles more times aday and do inclue the cereal that worked for me I also tried to mix a little baby food with the cereal with a little bit of enfamil and see how she likes it . More enfamil then baby food .

That sounds exactly how my boys acted and they all had acid reflux. They cry because their tummy hurts. Eating makes it feel better for the moment like us drinking milk but then it hurts again so they cry. You may want to talk to her doctor about Tagamet. My boys were on that until they were about a year and then one of them didn't need it anymore. Some babies seem to out grow it. There are other ones but Tagmet tastes the best. The Zantac has a horrible taste. Good Luck!

Good morning A.,
try and give her baby ceral in the morning and her last feeding before she goes to bed. I did that with both of my children and it does work, if she gets gassy at night give a bottle of sugar water in place of a bottle of formula that works wonderful..
Good luck

Hi A.! My daughter is 4 months old and is 16 pounds. You should also look at her height. My daughter is 26 1/4 inches tall so her height is off the charts and her weight is 93%. Knowing that I feed her when she wants and as much as she wants (the pediatrician agrees and is not concerned about my daughters weight because she is so much taller).

My suggestions would be to make sure your doctor is fine with her weight or does he/she think your daughter is over weight? Sounds like he/she thinks she is fine because he/she is also saying to give her cereal. If not, then continue with feeding her when she wants and the amount she wants. That may also help her sleep through the night. My daughter has a total of about 24-28 ounces a day throughout the day and sleeps from 8:30pm until 7am. I would also suggest getting different bottles if you could. I use Dr. Brown and the size 2 nipples (for 3-6 month olds) and it works out fine.

Good luck!
S.

Hi A.,
I had the same issue with my daughter who is now 6 months old. She was eating way too much. And the doctor didnt seem to concerned. She is in like the 95th percentile for her weight. I started to spoon feed her the cereal at breakfast and before bed and then gave her a smaller bottle afterwards and that seemed to help a little bit for those feedings. I also started her on baby food a little earlier. Now at 6 months old her eating habits have changed completly. She wants nothing to do with her bottles. Now she isnt even getting what she is suppost to. Try those ideas, hope they help. :)

If she is spitting up, I would be concerned about reflux. Does she cry/fuss a lot like she is in pain? Are you sure she is crying because she is hungry?

My daughter has reflux. She was always hungry because she was always spitting up. She was always screaming because she was in pain and probably hungry. Zantac helped with the pain but not the spitting. Prilosec has finally really helped with the spitting and pain, and she is finally able to hold her food down.

The fact that your daughter is gaining weight is a good sign--mine was not growing well because of the spitting. I just thought reflux might be something to look out for. Good luck!

Cereal in formula makes digestion harder and can be harmful to babies in the future, although your baby is a little older already and might not be affected by it. Of course every child is different. Rice cereal and baby cereal also do not have much nutrition. I don't think she is eating too much. She might need to eat this much right now because she is doing a lot of her growing. It might slow down as she gets older and start back up again. Some parents feel that you shouldn't start solids until six months but there are books out there that says solids are okay at four months. So it's really whatever you are comfortable with and if your baby shows any interest.

Hope everything turns out okay.

Y.

When my son was just an infant he had was spitting up all of the time. It turned out that he has acid reflux and we had to give him medication and put a tablespoon of ceral with each ounce of formula. You may want to look into this. Also I would start giving your daughter some solid foods. You could start by giving her ceral with a little bit of fruit stirred in or stage one foods cause it sounds as though the formula is not enough to fill her up anymore.

every baby is different I started my son on rice cereal when he was two months old. on the recomondation of our doctor since he would suck down a nine ounce bottle and scream for more. the doctor recomended that we start him on rice cereal because he wasnt getting enough from the formula alone. the doc told us as long as we stuck to single grain rice cereal there wouldnt be any risk for food allergy. my daughter was two weeks old when we started her on rice cereal same problem as my son. get a feeding bottle because they cant eat off a spoon yet just sit them up a little more then you would normaly. so thewy dont choke but if you make the cereal real runny they usually just suck it down with no problems.

My son was also a big baby (9lb 11oz when he was born) and a big eater. By the time he was 4 months old he was taking 8 oz bottles every 4 hours. We started him on cereal at 3 months old and baby food at around 5 months old. It seemed to really help with how often he wanted to eat. He still packed away 8 oz bottles, but started doing it much less often.

Jenn

Dont put the cereal in her bottle.... I started giving my son cereal when he turned 4 months old. spoon feed it to her and then afterwards give her a bottle it should hold her over longer before another feeding. I fed the cereal to my son in the morning and then again at night before his last bottle before bed! good luck!

A.-
My daughter is similiar. She eats lots (about 4-7 oz every 3-4 hrs). I have lots of ideas on things we have tried, so feel free to email me at: "____@____.com"
The simplest idea is to use pacifier between every 4 oz & burping often. -S.-

Here's a great site on how to know when your baby is ready for solids.
http://www.verybestbaby.com/MyBaby/Solids.aspx?ArticleId=...

My daughter loves to eat too. She's 4 months old and weighs 16 lbs. She was big at birth though, 10 lbs. 5 ozs. She eats a 6-ounce bottle every 2, 2 and 1/2 hours!! But she also sleeps for about 11 hours at night too without a feeding. I don't think you should give her less food. She's a bigger baby and probably needs all of that. I think that it would be hard to try to cut it down. I mean, I could just imagine trying to give my daughter less. She would lose it!! My daughter spits up quite a bit too, but my doctor says it's nothing to worry about. Sometimes I think that what we think is a lot of spitting up really isn't. I haven't put her on solids yet, my doctor says to wait until 6 months to help prevent allergies and such. Hope this helped a little bit. Just know that there's someone out there in pretty much the same boat!! :)

Although it may seem early for it she may be ready for solids. I would start her on a little ceral early in the day and see how she does with it. It doesn't sound to me like you are feeding her too much at all. My daughter is 6 months and weighs almost 18lbs she was about the same weight as yours at 4 months, not an inch of fat on her. Iam breast feeding and you never know how much they are really getting . As long as your doctor hasn't told you to cut back on feedings she should be fine.

As for the spitting up, some kids are just pukers. I have a boy who is almost 20 months and the barfing is just stopping now. He would be fine running and playing the next thing you would know every thing in him was on his shirt. Unfortunatly some kids are just like that. They say it in an under developed valvue in the stomache. The only thing I can recommend on that one is to buy lots of laundry soap :( .

Our pediatrican was concerned that around 4 or 5 months of age I was over-feeding my son but he would cry terribly if I didn't feed him. He was always in the 97th or higher percentile for height and weight. He was taking close to 40 ounces a day and the ped wanted him around 30 ounces. I cut each of his bottles by 1/2 ounce which put the daily total around 35, any less than that and we were both miserable. After a few months he grew out of that stage. His height and weight became average and have remained so. Solid foods helped, but I was advised no solids until 6 months. (I had also tried increasing the amount of formula at each feeding thinking that if he had a little more in each bottle then he would be satisfied for longer, take fewer bottles and have a lower total. That didn't work because he would be full before finishing the greater amount.)

My kids were slow at taking their bottles so finishing a bottle in 3-4 minutes seems fast to me. But we did use the slow nipples.

If I didn't burp them at least once in the middle of a feeding they would spit up soon afterward.

Hope something here is useful to you. Good luck!