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am i starving my baby?

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nightowl · 15/07/2004 01:44

dd is nearly 6 months now and last weighed she was 11lb 2oz. she was 5lb 5oz at birth and amazed the midwives by putting on a pound in her first week. she has 7oz bottles, four a day (thats all she wants and doesnt always drink it all) for the last four weeks ive been introducing her to solids and she has about a jar a day in two meals. is this enough? she's currently still on the cow and gate omneo, perhaps i should be changing the milk now? i dont know. feel like im really doing something wrong.

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unicorn · 15/07/2004 01:51

how is she on the centile thingy?
is she alert and in good health generally?...
what is worrying you?
sounds like u are doing everything fine to me.

colinsmommy · 15/07/2004 05:57

Here, I will post on the right thread. She sounds fine to me too.

mummytosteven · 15/07/2004 07:20

she sounds fine to me too. I asked my HV about follow on milk last week - she didn't seem to think there was a significant difference between infant milk and follow milk, (possibly very slightly more iron in the follow on milk) and that I wouldn't need to change from SMA Gold to SMA Follow on. At lot of this Follow on Milk is a a marketing con anyway - trying to get you to buy formula until 2 years old when they can drink cow's milk at 1! Presumably if your dd is on cow and gate omneo she had reflux/tummy trouble with her original formula, so probably best to stick to omneo.

mummytosteven · 15/07/2004 07:22

have just seen other thread on omneo comfort and the difficulties people have making it up - so maybe you might want to switch for the sake of your sanity anyway!

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Jackfrostmanson · 16/07/2004 15:12

My dd aged 8 months is a smaller baby when was last weighted she was 14 2 lbs as long as she is happy ,heathly ,alert and developing well I would not worry.
My dd only has 6oz of formula per feed 4* a day and she is fine.
But I know how worrying it can be when all the other babies you see a chunky and you have this dainty baby with everyone saying isnt she tiny.
Some Health Visitors dont help either because they can make you worry if they dont gain weight.Although mine told me not to worry as long as she was alert and developing well not to worry.

sammymum · 16/07/2004 18:59

as long as she's gaining weight at an acceptable rate, and she hasn't dropped below on her centile chart, don't worry. origionaly, the government said that babies could drink cow's milk at 6 months. when they changed it to 1 year, the companies saw a gap in the market, and introduced follow on milk, saying it had more iron in it. the truth is, you're fine with the stage 2 milk, and babies will get all the iron they need from their solid food.

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nightowl · 21/07/2004 01:51

right ive had her weighed today and shes actually 12lb 8oz. i asked the health visitor if this was bad and she didnt seem to concerned. dd is right on the bottom of the line on the chart but she started off there, shot up a line and is now back on her orginal one...if that makes any sense? hv said shes just possibly a tiny baby anyway but said that dd should be having: breakfast milk feed and solid (whole jar). lunch milk solid and pudding. dinner milk, solid and pudding. there is no way in the world that my daughter will eat that much. im having severe problems trying to get her to eat any savoury without that amount. is this what other 6 month old babies eat? im sure ds never ate that much at that age.

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mit · 21/07/2004 02:00

Hi nightowl
My dd is now 7 months at it's only in the last 10 days or so that she's been eating:
7am full breastfeed followed by porridge & applesauce
11am full b.feed, savoury solids (about 2 ice cubes) & baby yoghurt (about 2 tablespoons)
3pm 1/2 b.feed (ie. one breast)
6pm same as lunch.
Prior to that she would have anything between one teaspoon and 2 ice cubes of savoury only - no room for pudding and we hadn't started breakfast solids either.
It sounds like your dd is a healthy weight, she's just small. Lots of my friends have 6.5 month olds weighing around the 12lb mark. I just have a heffer (she's now nearly 18lbs!). She won't go hungry, babies have innate survival skills - don't worry about it.
mit x

Ghosty · 21/07/2004 02:09

Hi nightowl ...
What your HV says sounds like an awful lot even for my baby and she is a monster!
DD is nearly 6 months (will be on 3rd August) and she has: Breakfast breastfeed followed by a bit of baby cereal mixed with pureed fruit (and she won't eat it all). Lunch breastfeed followed by a small amount of mixed pureed veggies (probably half a jar's worth but homemade). Breastfeed between 2 and 3 pm. Breastfeed at teatime and then some baby rice mixed with pureed fruit at bedtime (this is her biggest meal). There is no way I could get her to have puddings as well.
I have no way of telling how many oz of milk she has but I reckon each feed can be no more than 5 or 6 oz usually less.
I think each baby is different - to have a percentile chart at all you have to have dainty babies like yours and monster babies like mine. When DS was a baby I worried about over feeding him as he was massive and I blamed it on formula. DD is also massive and breastfed so it must be genetic. I make monster babies and you make dainty babies ........
If your DD is happy and healthy then you are not starving her ... you'd know if you were.
Hugs {{{}}}

mit · 21/07/2004 02:16

Do you have a GF baby Ghosty?.....her day sounds uncannily like my dd's!
mit x
-sorry, off topic I know

Ghosty · 21/07/2004 02:23

LOL mit ...
Somewhere, somehow DD has managed to pinch my CLBB and read it when I wasn't looking!
I was determined NOT to do GF this time round (DS was GF baby extraordinaire!) and did everything in my power to avoid it - wanted to be one of those 'anywhere, anytime' type mums!
But by the time she was 3 months she had turned into the classic Contented Little Baby! So that tells me that despite all the arguments against GF, some babies DO naturally fall into that pattern!
The only things I DID do from early on was the 'keeping them awake from 5pm' thing and the late 10pm feed.
When we started weaning it made sense to do the bedtime solids seeing as she was determined to be a GF baby anyway

mit · 21/07/2004 18:49

Hee hee Ghosty - I lost my copy of TCLB for a couple of months (well...lent it to a friend who had misplaced it....) - when we got it back at the w/e my dd had cleverly changed her day to follow the book....I think both our dd's are remarkably advanced....sneaking out of their cots (and in may case half way accross Houston) to read a bit of Gina.
The bit I'm on now is annoying me though as she isn't supporting my b.feeding very much - huf. Totally agree re. 5pm & 10pm - I've mentioned this to lots of my friends who have never heard of GF and they all report huge progress.....it's a good system I think.
mit x

beachyhead · 21/07/2004 18:54

Little babies at the beginning are greedy babies and often put on a lot of weight and eat loads at the beginning, then I guess it has to even off somewhere. My premmie was a guzzler at the beginning, then evened off and was a dainty baby throughout. We were so paranoid about food and convinced that she was eating too much or too little all the time, but I think its quite hard to starve a baby!!!!

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