Is my baby eating enough?

[Twistedunicorn]

Here's a run down of our daily schedules - roughly 4 naps during the day (snacks,fruit and water given throughout the day)

7am - 7oz bottle
8.30/9ish - porridge
12.30 nearer 1 - 7oz bottle
With 1 slice of toast cut up
5ish - dinner finished off with melty sticks
7-8 7oz bottle
12pm last bottle til morning 7oz

How old is baby?

If baby is consistently hungry then baby isn’t eating enough. If baby is happy, baby is eating enough.

Assuming baby is over 6 months as you’re weaning, you could try cut the 12pm bottle. They don’t need milk overnight and it’s bad for their teeth. If baby is waking up at 12 due to hunger then try and encourage more calories during the day. If it’s for comfort and not hunger then that’s a separate point.

Oops i forgot to mention he's 6 months old.

Some nights he hasn't woke for a last bottle but if he does we have it ready to go.

If he’s only 6months isn’t that quite fast to be on 3 meals and snacks already? If I remember when weaning my first, we didn’t get to 3 meals till like 8ish/9ish months? I thought at 6mo milk was still the main food and it was little tastes per day or 1 solid meal.

id be inclined to offer another milk during the day to try get rid of the midnight feed.

@ecossegirl91 we didn't dive straight in to 3 meals a day, we weaned him roughly 3 weeks ago and started gradule with baby rice or cereal in the morning along with milk throughout the day.

3 meals is a new thing this week, he's a big boy and likes his chuck as my auld dad used to say 🤣🤣

That’s plenty as long as he’s not finishing all his bottles and wanting more.

Mine weren’t on 3 meals a day until 8 months and we didn’t introduce any snacks until 10 months.

@mindutopia nah he seems pretty content after a bottle and fairly spacing them out.

I guess I've just got a hungry boy on my hands lol