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Hello everyone
My little boy will be 19 weeks on sunday and weighs around 18lb.
He has an insatiable appetite! At the moment he eats (around these times)
8am 7oz
12pm 7oz
4pm 7oz
8pm 7oz
and then wakes in the night between 3am and 4am for another 7oz.
He absolutely drains his 7oz bottles.
Our doctor told us to introduce a bit of baby rice or porridge to his diet once a day which we have been doing at his 4pm feed. He has 4 spoonfuls of porridge made up with milk from his bottle which he also easily devours.
He tried carrot yesterday and wolfed all that too.
The problem is, he is now struggling to go 4 hours between bottles. I can just about get him to 3.5 hours but by the time he eats he's really upset.
He has never slept through and has only recently started sleeping from 2130 to around 0400. More often than not he will wake between then too.
I dont know what to do. Do i give him 7oz every 3.5 hrs and hope he sleeps longer so he don't need a 6th bottle? Do i give him 42oz milk a day?
Do i introduce another solid feed? He is on Aptamil 1.
He also only sleeps about 11 hours in any 24 hour period.
All advice very welcome!!
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Shanx19 · 26/12/2013 13:22
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