Schedule for feeding infants 3 times per day

What times do you feed him/her and what do they eat?? We are doing oatmeal in the morning with veggies or veggies and fruit in the afternoon but now the dr wants us to increase it to 3 meals per day I'm worried that DS isn't going to get enough milk throughout the day and that I'm giong to be feeding him every 2-3 hours just to get all his meals in and still offer him some milk inbetween. I'm so lost - is it really this complicated?! HELP!

Re: Schedule for feeding infants 3 times per day

Dd is 7months

She gets a 4oz bottle, oatmeal and a fruit as soon as she wakes up

3 hours later she gets an 8oz bottle

3hours later she gets pastina and a veggie. She used to also get a small bottle here but she dropped it a while ago

3 hours later she gets a meat combo like turkey and rice or beef vegeatble

And then finally at about 7pm she gets an 8oz bottle and goes to sleep

I often feel like I am constantly feeding her but she never turns it down and she growing like a weed

Re: Schedule for feeding infants 3 times per day

DD eats 3x a day now. Yesterday was the first day she completely skipped her 5 am bottle, though. Today she was back up at 5 and eating. Oh well. Anyway...

I usually give her a bottle when she wakes up, somewhere between 6 & 8 am. I feed her solids around 9:30 am. She takes a nap right after that. She has another bottle at 11:30 am. She gets another meal around 1:30. She has another bottle before her bath and nap (she still takes 3 naps a day) at 4. She eats her third meal with us, around 5:30 and has her 4th bottle before going to sleep, around 7.

I just try to keep alternating bottle and food. She's still drinking 24-30 ounces a day (depending on her mood).

I do feel like I'm feeding her all the time.

She usually has a grain and fruit in the morning, fruit & veggie & sometimes starch for lunch and a protein (lentils right now) and both fruit & veggies for dinner. I plan to start another protein next week. I make all her food so I don't measure it jar-wise.

Message edited 7/23/2011 4:19:02 PM.

Re: Schedule for feeding infants 3 times per day

this is DD scheduele. Somethign to note eveen though i giver 4 7.5oz bottles a day she does not drink them all. She will drink anywhere from 16-24 oz depending what she feels like that day


7:00 am bottle
somtime betwee8-10am she get 3tbs of oatmeal witha one frut
11:00 am bottle
sometime between 12-2 she gets 3 tbs of whole wheat cearel and 1 veg.
3:00 pm bottle
6:30 pm bottle
then after that she gets dinner which is usually some meat meal, or pasta meal.

I am going to start mixing up her breakfast and lunch soon and start offering probably yogurt and other things instead of cereal.

Re: Schedule for feeding infants 3 times per day

Wow we really do end up feeding them every 2-3 hours
I'm still worried about the amount of milk he drinks and I"m going to talk to the ped about it when we go in a few weeks -- we have to add oatmeal/cereal to every bottle because of his bad reflux so he doesn't drink as many oz as a normal baby does so we are already just getting 15 oz a day with 2 meals so I'm worried that it will drop again when we add the 3rd meal -- I read somewhere that they should get 15 oz a day for the first year...

Re: Schedule for feeding infants 3 times per day

my babies are 6.5 months and this is our schedule.

7-730- 7 oz bottle
9-930- cereal and fruit
10:30- 6 oz bottle
11-1 Nap
1-1:30 veggie
2:30-3: 6 oz bottle
5 veggie
6:30 7 oz bottle and bedtime

Re: Schedule for feeding infants 3 times per day

7 am - 7oz bottle

8- breakfast (cereal with fruit, hard boiled egg yolk + 1/2 whole wheat mini bagel, or a mini whole wheat pancake)

Nap9-10 or 11
11- bottle

1200 lunch, yogurt and puffs
Nap 1-2 or 3
3 bottle

6 dinner, meat and veggie

7 bedtime bottle

Re: Schedule for feeding infants 3 times per day

we do breakfast, lunch, and dinner for meals
we then do 3 bottles (one at 6am, one at 4pm, one at 10pm) the bottles are 8oz each to make sure he gets enough milk.

Even with this schedule, DS is eating every 3-4 hrs. it drives me nuts!

Re: Schedule for feeding infants 3 times per day

We fed DS every 2 hours when he was first eating three times a day and still on 4 bottles a day. Bottle, meal, bottle, meal, bottle, meal, bottle. When he went to milk at a year, we dropped that fourth bottle and moved the others up to mealtimes.

I would check with your ped, but 15 oz a day sounds really low. 16 oz a day is the minimum a 1 to 2 year old should have. If your child is under a year, I think he should be getting more formula than that. Not an expert though, definitely check.

Message edited 7/26/2011 1:47:28 PM.

Re: Schedule for feeding infants 3 times per day

We do meals at typical breakfast, lunch, dinner times, and bottles after naps, so our day looks something like this:

6:30 - wake - 8 oz bottle
7:30/8AM - breakfast (waffles & fruit or oatmeal & fruit)
9:30-11AM - NAP
11AM wake from nap - 6 oz bottle
12:30 - lunch (veggie & a fruit)
1:30-3PM NAP
3PM - wake up from 2nd nap - 6 oz bottle
6PM - dinner (pastina)
7:30 bed