Is my son eating to much?

November 22, 2009

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2ndtimearound03

DATE: 01/12/04 9:23am

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Is my son eating to much?

My son is 9 weeks old and eats about 5 1/2 oz every 3 1/2 to 4 hours a day. His first feeding runs between 6 and 7 am with his last feeding around 10:30 at night. At 4 weeks I started feeding him cereal from a spoon because he never seemed satisfied. (I also have a 9 year old that I started putting cereal in her bottle at 3 weeks because she had reflux. But I recently read a few studies that indicated putting cereal in the bottle only added more calories and didn't allow the baby to decided how much cereal they really wanted to eat.) He immediatly ate from the spoon even opening his mouth for it without my touching his lower lip with it. It seemed to help satisfy him throughout the night (no he didn't sleep through the whole night but he was satisfied for about 6 hours). Anyway I have now switched him to eating the cereal (about 3 tablespoons with 2 oz of formuala) along with 3 oz of fourmula in the bottle to 7 and a 4 oz bottle at 10:30. An example of his schedule (yesterday) would be this. 8 am 6 oz, 12:00 6 oz, 4:30 5 1/2 oz, 7:30 the cereal and 2 1/2oz and 10:30 4 1/2 oz. Other days he might eat might add one more feeding of about 5 oz. So he is averaging between 25 and 30 oz a day. He wieghed 8lbs 8oz and was 21 1/2" at birth he is now roughly 12lbs 6 oz and 25 1/2" long. Does he weigh to much? Is he eating to much? Please help my first was tiny but then out on a lot of weight and to this day is overweight I don't want to do wrong with this one.

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Is my son eating to much?

2ndtimearound03

01/12/04 09:23am

Re: Is my son eating to much?

KatherineM

01/31/04 03:27pm

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