Feeding
Eat/drink small portions and make up for it in the evenings and at night.
IlseGuest ·
Hi everyone, About 7.5 months ago I gave birth to a beautiful daughter. She breastfed until about 5.5 months. She’s always been a small drinker and initially didn’t want the bottle, but with the help of a pre-speech therapist she now drinks from the bottle. However, she drinks between 100 and 150 ml per feed, still having about 5 to 6 bottles a day. She’s had solid food since she was 5 months old. In the morning she has porridge (100 ml bottle with fine grain porridge), as a snack about 100 to 150 grams of fruit, around 12 o’clock 2/3 of a sandwich with water, and a bit later a bottle. Around 5:30 pm she has 100 to 150 grams of evening meal with yogurt after, and before bed (around 7/7:30 pm) a bottle. She’s always clearly shown when she’s had enough, pushes the bottle/spoon away and turns her head away. After 2 hours of sleep at night she wakes up though and wants another bottle which she drinks better than during the day. Sometimes this happens again or we give a last bottle before we go to sleep hoping she won’t wake up during the night which never happens. She gets rice flour in the ‘last’ bottle. At meals she gets water (this doesn’t make her drink less from the bottle by the way). The times we’ve been able to sleep through is countable on one hand and it’s picking up now, especially since it’s the middle of the month and our kids (we have another girl of 5 years) regularly have colds and/or are sick and come with ghosts at night. My question is: do you recognize this drinking/eating behavior (small portions of food/drink)? I mainly read that kids of that age can manage with fewer bottles and eat/drink more per time, with the last bottle at 7:30 or 8 pm and then sleeping through. Our oldest did this too, slept through from 6 weeks. She got almost immediately full bottle feeding because breastfeeding didn’t get going back then. I know it might just be part of it on one hand but sleeping through the night once is also very nice ;-). I’d love to read your responses.
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