Is it possible to overfeed a 6.5 month old?

[thisxgirl]

Have been weaning DS for a couple of weeks or so now and am having great success. I'm largely doing purees but hand him things to play with/put in his mouth too, although pretty much nothing goes in that way.

At the moment he is having four 8 oz milk feeds a day (usually drains the bottle) and two solid meals, where he can happily consume about 100g of banana porridge/pureed fruits and vegetables. He loves pretty much everything and I'm thinking he could actually gobble up more than 100g if I offered it to him.

Is he eating too much already or would increasing his solid intake further be too much? I had read that babies of this age should be on three or four teaspoons of puree per meal but I've offered it on demand. Maybe I should just introduce a third solid feed? I just wondered if babies had any concept of their gut's limitations or whether a 'greedy' baby would just keep eating and eating and maybe make themselves a bit ill?

And while I'm here and this is already becoming mammoth - I don't give him any water. His stools are perfectly normal though. Should I start offering cooled, boiled water?

Thank you if you have got this far!

No idea about the overfeeding, I'm afraid - never managed to get DS to eat purees - but it is a good idea to offer some water (doesn't have to be boiled after 6 months) alongside food. If he doesn't want it, that's fine, but offer anyway, just in case.

IMHO as long as he continues to drain his bottles then you can introduce a 3rd meal, also offer water - doesn't need to be boiled - in a sippy cup or 1cm of water in an open beaker.

DS took to solids really well from 6 months and was up to 3 fairly hearty meals each day by 6.5 months. He ate 3 or 4 teaspoons of puree for the first couple of day but then accelerated quickly from there. Completely demand led. He mostly seems to moderate his own intake; sometimes he would wolf down everything offered, other times would eat much less. He ate too much on one or two occasions and simply threw some of it back up again. No big deal. No idea how many grams he ate of anything, but a typical day's food would include: porridge with fruit; tiny pasta with a spinach sauce, then some cheese cubes as finger food; pureed chicken pie mix, then some plain yoghurt with banana. Seemed like a lot of food to me, but he's still only on the 15th centile for weight! Oh, and he's still on four decent milk feeds each day.

Thank you for the advice. I'll try him on some water and relax a little bit about his solids - maybe insert another meal in there but remain demand-led.