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8-9 Month Feeding Schedule - Ideas
Asked by T.B. from San Francisco
on January 8, 2010
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I feel like I ask this every other month but wanted to get some feedback on what your 8-9 month old feeding schedule is like. My now 8 month old is still waking up 2-...
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- I think you're doing fine. My 9 month old daughter wakes to nurse around 12 and then again around 3 or 4, sometimes again at 6 or will just wake at 7 and have breakfa...
- How do you gauge how much to give him to eat now? When he is done with a jar, would he eat more if you gave it to him? Are you nursing at every solid feeding? I nev...
- Eight to nine months is when I switched from nursing before meals to nursing after meals, which actually meant that we went down to just nursing before naps/bedtime an...
Ideas on Baby Food Feeding Schedule??
Asked by M.C. from Huntington
on January 13, 2007
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My 6 month old son is now eating some solids....I just would like some suggestions about when and what should be fed. How often??? WHAT??? I know that milk is suppo...
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- I totally understand where you are coming from. There should be an instruction manual on these types of things! At the 6 month visit with the doctor I asked her for a ...
- The Association of Pediatrics highly recommend you don't even begin solids until they are 6 months old... so that's what I did. I began feeding her only once a day......
- My daughter is 7 months old and I had the same questions you had. My daugters's doctor told me to have her on 3 meals a day by the time she was 6 months. I started wit...
Feeding Schedule for 6 Month Old
Asked by C.K. from Denver
on July 23, 2008
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I just started my little one on solids last week. I have been giving her rice cereal once a day I am going to start to introduce Stage 1 foods once a week. She has h...
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- Don't stress about not giving enough "solid food" to your 6 month old. Her system is still getting used to the new additions and isn't prepared to have too much too so...
- At a recent La Leche League meeting, a leader stated that feeding food then nursing can be a good way to start weaning. I am not ready to start this yet, so we usually...
- With my kids, I always gave solids close to traditional meal times and then breast and bottle fed for the rest of the day. So three "meals" of solids at 8, 12 and 6 (o...
Feeding Solids
Asked by M.D. from Chicago
on May 17, 2007
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I feed Max 4 times a day at the moment and I am starting solids soon. I'm starting with a breakfast feeding only for a couple of weeks with cereal and then giving an ...
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- No offense, but don't listen to your mother in law. Babies don't eat 3 meals a day. I am amazed you already have him down to 4 feedings a day. You definately don't ...
- Do not cut a baby down to three meals a day! No offense to your mother-in-law, but she is probably of the generation that thought it was ok to smoke and drink while p...
- You are correct (and all the PP), you don't want to reduce the number of formula feedings. My daughter was like your son, she had reduced herself down to four feeding...
Help with Feeding
Asked by P.E. from Miami
on November 15, 2006
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I have a 6 week old baby boy. i have been breastfeeding and formula feeding up until this point but i am trying to get him to have formula only. he's up to 4 oz of fo...
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- Hi. I have a 14 month old boy who has eaten us out of house and home since day one. He never was interested in breast feeding so he has been on formula since his bir...
- Most good pediatricians will tell you never to put cereal in the bottle. However... my pediatrician said not to give cereal until like whatever it was... I didn't lis...
- It's pretty common for babies to tank up in the evening or as it's often called cluster feed. This is their way of getting really full so that they can prepare to sle...
Breast Feeding
Asked by I.R. from New York
on October 30, 2009
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does breast pump hurt...?
my friend told me it hurts alot...
and is breast feeding painful too..???
what shall i do incase it hurts..??
first time mom to be her...
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- Very good question! It depends on the woman. Neither should hurt at all but it does feel a little wierd in the beginning. If either hurt, especially nursing, someth...
- I remember reading that it can take up to six weeks for your body to get used to breastfeeding. It took just about that long for me to be pain free, but the benefits ...
- Honestly, yes it hurts in the beginning, until you get the hang of it. With my first, I got a cracked nipple, so it was extremely painful to nurse until it healed. S...
Feeding Schedule a Bit Off...
Asked by M.S. from Philadelphia
on March 3, 2007
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Hi, just to start, I feel like an idiot asking this question...
To make a long story short, I was breastfeeding and my milk supply had decreased in January, and my...
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- Have you tried calling the la leche league? They have someone always ready give helpful hints. As far as your milk supply you can keep it up by taking fenugreek capsul...
- Hi M., How old is your son and are you still breastfeeding? I ask because he may have been going through a growth spurt. When babies do that, it is important to fe...
- I have two kitty cats! Are you feeding from the breast or from bottles? Remember that you don't get as much milk when you pump as you do when you go straight from ...
Night Feeding
Asked by J.D. from Buffalo
on May 31, 2011
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My 5 1/2 month old is still waking up in the middle of the night to feed. We put him to bed by 8:30 and he always wakes up around 2:00am. He is hungry and drinks an ...
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- If he drinks the whole bottle then he is hungry and needs to eat. You may be able to work around the schedule a bit. Wake him at 11pm or last thing before you go to ...
- That sounds good to me. My son didn't start sleeping 10-12 hours straight until just after a year old. He was probably 9 months when he gave up his night time feedin...
- The first full YEAR - you should never deprive your infant of feeding when they are telling you they are hungry. This is the most growth and development they will be ...
Breast Feeding
Asked by A.M. from Lakeland
on September 5, 2009
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I just had a baby & he is 1 1/2 wks old. And i am worried that he isnt getting enough to eat. i thought breast milk should be pouring out by now but mine isnt. when i ...
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- I'm not sure where you are located but if you are near Valrico I would love to meet with you and make sure you have a good latch. I know it always hurt if I had a bad ...
- It is just so important for you to see a lactation specialist. You should not change formulas like that. I'm highly suprised the doc didn't tell you to speak with a ...
- oh please give yourself and your baby time!!!! it's always funky in the beginning, but we managed to populate this whole earth before formula and "ounce checks!" i'm ...
Feeding Schedules
Asked by H.J. from Peoria
on February 18, 2008
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For those moms out there who are for schedules, I have a question for you! When you're trying to keep the feeding schedule (Which I read has a direct influence on sle...
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- OMG...It is super hard being a first time mom. I'm experencing the same thing you are....I don't know what to do because he's so small (7 week) to hang on to the paci...
- H., I'm going through the same thing right now. I thought we were pretty loose about a schedule, but when I tried to change it, my daughter clearly let us know she wa...
- Babies and children thrive on routine. They like to know what to expect....even at a very young age. It won't hurt your baby to cry either. Just keep doing what you...
