However, if your baby gradually loses weight even when he's not sick, then the doctor may recommend that you increase the number
of feedings each day.
Start by replacing one
feeding a day with a bottle and slowly increase the number of bottle feedings until he's feeding with ease.
If you're breastfeeding, aim for 8 - 12
feedings a day in the first days of your baby's life.
Some babies are happy to have one solid
feed a day at the beginning of weaning, whereas others require more frequent feeds.
It's important to remember that the types of foods that you eat
on feeding days do matter.
- Advice: Mom was informed that not all babies will thrive on four
feedings a day as some moms may lose their milk supply on that schedule.
So if you are four hourly feeding baby will then be having five
feeds a day instead of six feeds.
With a house full of folks to
feed every day over the holidays, I was looking for some healthy recipe choices the whole family would enjoy.
I think about
child feeding every day, and it never occurred to me that I keep some food supply for my children separate from what I eat.
She's probably having two or three
solid feeds each day, and she's tasted quite a variety of fruits and vegetables!
Eventually I expect she will drop the feed but 5
feeds a day seems to little for a 8 - 10 week baby.
He was eighteen months old when I cut him down from five or more on
demand feedings a day to one or two shortened feedings when he woke up and before bedtime.
Your lifestyle may not allow for multiple
canned feedings a day, and some cats refuse to eat canned food, so you may feed dry foods.
Instead of free feeding or feeding only two meals a day, divide the food up into smaller portions and increase the number of
meals fed each day.
You will create a strong gut and immune system and you avoid the risk of an excess or deficiency, which can occur when the same inadequate diet is
fed day after day.
Once we were down to just one
feeding a day at 17 months, I started to explain that the milk was going away (which it was at this point).