what times shud i give my 5 month old feeds in the day? some say milk then solids,some vice versa i'm confused

Answer 1

According to my son's pediatrician
meal 1(8a.m) - cereal/ formula
meal 2 10 a.m. -juice 2-4oz
meal 3 12-1) - vegetable & formula 6oz.
meal 4 2p.m. - fruit
meal 5 4-6p.m. - meat & formula
meal 6 8-10p.m. - cereal/formula

Answer 2

Bottle of formula as soon as the baby gets up. Then about an hour later give the cereal. Continue throughout the day to give bottle whenever the baby is hungry. Then around 4 hours after the cereal, give lunch-solids. Then around your dinner time give the baby more solids. At 5 months old the baby really only needs formula. Solids are just for practice yet.

Answer 3

When you first start to feed your baby solids, you should start with rice cerael mixed with the baby's formula. From there you should move to vegetables and then fruits and then meats. Starting with the vegetables (after the baby is used to rice, oatmeal and maybe barley cerael) will help reduce the likelehood of a sweet tooth later in life. I had heard about this when I was expeciting my first so I did do the vegies first, with my second I did the fruits first. My second has quite a sweet tooth, my first born does not.

As far as when you should feed the child, start giving the solid food rice cerael at the evening feed. This will help the child sleep through the night, or sleep for a longer time as his/her tummy will be full.

Good luck. Follow your instinct....you are probably right, and you can always call your pedietricitian for answers to your questions also.

Answer 4

Infants younger than 6 months should not be getting any solids. There is evidence that babies are more likely to develop serious food allergies if they start before six months. At 6 months you can give baby rice cereal. After about 3-4 weeks on rice cereal you can start to incorporate vegetables and fruits. Start with veggies because you don't want your baby to learn that food is supposed to taste sweet. You really want baby to learn that food tastes like vegetables.

When you start your baby on vegetables, start with just one for about a week and then try another one. The reason for this is that if your baby has a food allergy, you will be able to identify which food is causing the allergy.

Now, when it comes to feeding baby, it is best to feed solids in the late afternoon or evening. This helps baby to feel fuller when it is time to go to sleep for the night and they are more likely to sleep through the night if they aren't already.

A few things to keep in mind is that you should feed your baby solids when he/she is alert and not overly hungry. If baby is tired or very hungry, the more likely the experience will be stressful for both you and baby.

If you want more information you should ask your pediatrician or family doctor.

Answer 5

Well i answered b4 and said to give your baby half of his/her milk feed then some food then the rest if they want it. So that is kind of a compromise. But its up to you at the end of the day. We can only try to help. If you want any more advice then maybe try asking your health visitor. But i was told to do what i said here. Up tp you. Good luck and happy weaning.

Answer 6

whatever he wants. Give him solids when he is most hungry.. there is no right and wrong. One good tip though is to introduce veggies first. Fruit is sweet and they don't always accept veggies if fruit was offered first. As far as milk or solids... offer the solidest food at his hungeriest time of day

Answer 7

ummm... ahh i know the answer to this!!!


Should solid food come before, or immediately follow bottle-feeding, or should they be separate?

It depends where your baby is in his or her stage of development with eating solids. For a baby just beginning to learn, who is not yet experienced in eating from a spoon or satisfying hunger with solids, it?s best to first take the edge off his hunger by allowing part of his liquid feeding. Then, while he is still pleasantly hungry, try offering the solids. He will be motivated yet patient enough to try them. Also, for a baby whose main source of nutrition is still formula or breast, it?s best not to fill them up on solids but to first make sure they are getting the nutrients they need. Then once eating solids is no longer just for practice, allowing solids before the bottle at mealtime is a good idea. It will encourage the transition to solids but will still be making a nutritional contribution to his diet. A good time to serve a separate bottle-feeding is snack time or bedtime for the baby who is already well established on solids, but who still needs the additional nourishment provided by breast milk or formula.

i didnt just paste and copy that off of some baby feeding helpline site thingy, NO!! that came from my mind!!

good luck with your babber!! remember - its not too late to change your childs name to deville!!

Answer 8

hi,what i used to do was give them a bottle in morning, with a little off the milk from bottle on cereal

dinner/lunch a jar of dinner and sweet
or
something i made and a small yoghurt with a drink of juice

tea/supper same as lunch

then a bottle for bed

Answer 9

When my kids were that young I fed milk in the morning and fed cereal or jarred food which ever you use for around lunch it helped them sleep better in the afternoon with full bellies

Answer 10

Solids then milk, most babies will fall asleep drinking the milk