Seriously shocked by how much 6.5mo can eat...

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Sorry if this has been done before but can't find any guidelines. DS started weaning about three weeks ago with small portions - so far he has not refused a single food or appeared to be full. I have gradually increased the portion sizes and am now scaring myself. Today for lunch he has had about 4/5tblsps of sweet potato and brocolli mush followed by half a medium sized banana. I think he would happily have had more. He is just over 15lb and now on three meals a day. Everyone reassures me that when they are full they will get fussy or refuse the spoon but this has never happened. Can you overfeed them? Should I just keep going? Thanks for any shared experiences....

Keep going, babies and young children are very good at eating just what they need. I think the greed/over eating thing doesn't kick in until about 4 or 5 years iirc.

They are doing a heck of a lot of growing at this stage, plus after 6 months of milk they love new tastes and textures. I always feed dd until she refuses the spoon, quite often she'll eat more than ds who's 2.3 years older than her!

Enjoy it while it lasts, once they start walking they're far to busy to eat anything then you'll worry he's not getting enough :o

Thanks headfairy...you are so right re next worry. Sure I'll be on here going "DS 12 months won't eat - help!"

Good to know the risk of over eating doesn't kick in for so long

my 7.5 month old eats loads but has slightly cut down on what he was eating about a month ago when he was 6.5m. He used to have a whole wheatabix and a whole banana for breakfast which seems loads to me for his size compared to what i would eat, now he's just eating about one wheatabix or slightly less

You'll know if your dc eats too much..... He will be sick

I was surprised in a way that there isn't an eating guideline on the pouches & jars? I just thought oh well I take it baby is supposed to eat the whole thing, or as much as possible?!

Needless to say much more of the Ella's Kitchen & Plum pouches get eaten in one go than any of Mummy's cooking