5mth old feeding more now that wen he was a newborn - is this normal?

[poopeeplops]

I have a 5 month old and he is on bottle feeds, Aptamil first baby and he has 6oz every 2hrs, he was going longer but seems to lately want it more often sometimes every 90mins, how could this be, i thought as they get older they get to a 4hr feeding habit????!!!

Ive tried giving more in a feed so instead of 180ml i have given 200mls and he just leaves it and sometimes he wont even have the 180mls. I have started givin him rusk in the breakfast feed with a bottle of 4oz and that works but he just wants more food - little and often!! Really frustrating now as i cant do anything as i dont know wen he will want a feed again, anyone got any advice - i thought they fed less and spread out more as they got older?!!

Babies do sometimes change their feeding habits, and then go back to earlier patterns and then change again....there's nothing inherently wrong if they do

You could ask your HV about this, maybe?

It's not a good idea to put rusk in the bottle by the way - again your HV can talk about this with you. The risk is that the baby takes more cereal than he would otherwise take and this can overload the baby's kidneys.

sorry i meant i feed him in a bowl with his milk mixed in and then after a 4oz bottle, so to introduce him to solids slowly, he jus doesnt seem interested in going any further in his feeding and getting onto solids, his hand eye co-ordination is still not there properly snd he cant keep a rusk in his hands so dont really know what to try.

Well, I'd argue that means he's not ready for solids.

But there is a bugger of a growth spurt around the 4-5 month mark, and I'm thinking this is it!

Just ride it out - there's no point trying to "load him up", you'll just give him tummyache. Milk feed him as he wants it, and it'll probably even itself out again fairly soon.