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My daughter will be 5 mo on the 26th and always seems like she could eat more than her 5 oz bottles of BM (5x/day).  I've tried giving her more but she gets spitty.  She GRILLS me when I eat (too funny) and is starting to smack her lips!  Also, when I take the bottle away to burp her or when she's finished it she yells for it back and moves all around looking for it to the point that I have to hide it 😂. She such a character and I love that part, but I'm also wondering if it's time to add something more to her feeding routine!  Anyone have similar experiences?  My regular sources say wait until 6 months and that over feeding is common...

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Our LO is 5 months and 2weeks old. He eats four 6 oz bottles a day with the last one having rice cereal. We started eating stage one baby food at three months at lunch and dinner. Now we have moved to the stage 2 babyfood that we have for breakfast, lunch and dinner plus the four 6 oz bottles. I think our baby may like to eat. Lol

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So my son did the same thing. So I started feeding 8 ounce bottles 3-4 times a day. And now he is doing around a jar of baby food each day. He is doing GREAT with that schedule! Hope this helps! <3

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Your daughter sounds EXACTLY like mine. My daughter gets four 6-8 oz bottles a day (at wake up, noon, 4ish and 8ish) in between the first two bottles and again in between the last two bottles we have started rice cereal. Not a lot but enough to get her used to different textures and a spoon. We just started this this past weekend and it seems to be going good. She is 5 months and a week now. Our pediatrician said we could start her on rice cereal for a little at 4 months and then move on to baby food shortly after that. We waited til now and probably won't start baby food til 6 months. So far we've had no issues and she enjoys eating from a spoon. I read and also heard not to start til 6 months but if you think she's ready like we thought our daughter is ready I don't see the harm in trying it.

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My son is 5.5 months old, and eats 5 6oz bottles plus a little bit of rice cereal and a veggie at night. He doesn't really eat the baby food yet, more just getting used to tastes and textures. My dr says a 5 month old should be eating at least 28 oz  but not more than 35oz, of BM or formula a day, so maybe increase her milk intake a little and see if she more satisfied!

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My son had been on solids since he was 4 months and he loves it!! We still do plenty of bottle of course but we had to do something different because he was the same exact way as your baby.

In the mornings he has a bottle right after waking up and about 1.5 hours later he has a little oatmeal cereal (we just started this like 4 days ago) then he has about five more bottles, give or take (7ounces), and then around 5 in the evening he has some sort of veggie with rice added to it (he will eat the whole jar) and finally one last, BIG bottle around 7:15 and bedtime at 8:15.

He really loves his veggies and I'm excited to introduce fruits to him next month. Maybe give solids a try, it's worth a shot.

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Mine is up to 6 8oz bottles a day and 2 jars of baby food one in the morning and 1 at night. We even started rice crackers too. Hes a piggy likes to eat constantly buts hes not a big baby, im confused how he eats so much but isnt all that big

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I noticed my daughter will spit up if she's moved too much, or on her stomach right after eating. If I give her time for it to settle, she's fine. Sounds like she wants more! My daughter definitely knows when she's done eating, and will let me know. I don't worry about over feeding, I'm more worried she's not eating enough.

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Thanks evernody!  Helpful to hear that other babies her age were in similar boats! We started cereal and she loves it!  However she hasn't pooped in a few days since starting...hopefully that won't be the case much longer!

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