How much baby good when introducing baby food ?

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How much do you feed your baby when introducing ? And when ? Every meal ? 3-4 bites ? As much as they will eat ? I’m overthinking

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At first mine seemed like she would eat forever. So I limited it to about 2 30ml cubes plus about 25ml formula with rice cereal mixed in at lunch only when starting. Then after three days I added the same for breakfast and another three days same for dinner. Then I started increasing lunch by 1 cube, each other meal by 1 cube if she finished it the day before. Now she’s up to 3 cubes fruit plus 50ml formula and rice cereal to thicken for breakfast, 4 cubes plain veggies for lunch followed by 2 cubes plain fruit for dessert. 3 cubes veggies mixed with 25ml formula and rice cereal then 2 cubes fruit mixed with 25ml formula and rice cereal for dinner/dessert. We are about three weeks in. We introduce a new food every three days and roughly follow the save our sleep feeding guide but I find their recommended quantities a bit much. They do say to feed until full at each meal though so I aim for there to always be some leftover. She gets boob every 4 hours as well plus a dream feed and she sleeps through she’s 5 months now.

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We give her stuff with dinner every night. She will scarf down 4 oz of pears quickly. Everything else has been about 2-3 oz. it’s hard to judge how much is in her belly vs the bib sometimes.

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Right now I’m only offering food so she can eat with us while we have dinner. She’s only had it for the past week or so but is already a pro at swallowing purees. Day 1, barely any went down, and tonight she ate the whole three ounces. I start my babies off with puréed veggies. This week was sweet potatoes. Tonight I made peas and carrots, and plan on doing avocado soon too. If I remember right, with my son I did dinner first, then added purees for lunch, and eventually finger foods for breakfast when he was more ready for that.

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Our ped said not to worry about quantity for now.  Just offer the food - what they eat, they eat.  My 5 month old eats half a mashed avocado at lunch and half at dinner.  I started him by watering down the avocado with a lot of breastmilk (so it was almost soupy) and then gradually made it less soupy over a period of 2-3 weeks.  We don’t care about how much of it he eats - we just offer and go with the flow of the day.  Mostly right now he’s having fun figuring out the spoon and relishing the attention lol.  The food doesn’t seem to impact his milk consumption at all. 
That all said, I’m starting to introduce mashed sweet potato this week.  As it sits heavier then avocado, I’m limiting to a handful of spoonfuls in order to see what happens/prevent constipation.  Never hurts to introduce slowly and build up if you’re at all nervous.

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I make my daughters baby food and pour it into ice trays. Then I freeze it and use 1 cube per feeding. She usually eats the entire thing (she’s tries baby oatmeal, sweet peas and butternut squash so far). Sometimes she wants a bottle right after she eats but I limit her to 1-2 oz. She was throwing up a lot of milk at first and I realized it was from overeating. You can also feed her a bottle with an oz or 2 less than what she normally eats, then try a few spoonfuls of food. My daughter never wants food after she drinks a bottle so we decided food first works best for her. It’s all trial and error. You may have to try a few things to see how your baby reacts.

How much baby good when introducing baby food ?

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