Burping Baby After Eating Baby Food

Your baby's digestive system might not be ready for that much solid food and for stage 2 foods. Just because your daughter will eat these foods does not mean her system is ready for them. Here's some info from Stanford Children's hospital. If you search their site, I'm sure you'll find even more useful info: http://www.lpch.org/DiseaseHealthInfo/HealthLibrary/newbo...

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At such a young age your daughter's main source of nutrition should be coming from breast milk or formula. Seven ounces may be too much! My son wasn't eating that much until after he turned one. The baby foods should be given in addition to the bottle NOT instead of. It is an introduction to solids of how they feel and taste. I purchased the book Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. I wasn't able to do all the recipies but I like it because it offers a time line of offering foods as well as sample of food schedules because I felt lost when we started solids! It was one of my best buys!

It is not necessary to burb her after feeding her baby food. aI gave my kids their baby food at normal breakfast, lunch and dinner times and a bottle in between along with 1 tbl of cereal in their bottles before bed.

Hello A.,
From what I understood when I started solids with my daughter is they should not replace any bottles. The beginning stages of solids is not for nutrition, but for the experience. Different tastes, different colors, etc. I'm not sure what to say since you baby eats so much, I'm not even sure my daughter ate that much at 9 months when we transitioned her to table food. The way we ended the bottle (at ` year) is her solids became her 3 meals and the bottles became the snacks, but that was at about 11 months.
Well, I hope there is something in here that helps you!

At that age, a couple of tablespoons of food a day is enough. Seven ounces of food is more than my one year old eats in an entire day, it's simply way too much. Just because she finds it fun and will eat and eat and eat, doesn't mean it's ok for her. Since you say you understnd that your own hunger/fullness signals are not strong, then you can expect that if she's like you, she has no idea when to stop and is going on and on because it's fun and tastes different.

Also the pp's are right that the small amount of solids babies should eat during the 6-12 month period should be in addition to their breastfeeding or formula, not replacing it, that comes later after one year. The solid food is mostly water, it would be like replacing your regular meal with a bowl of soup - even if it's the same number of ounces of food, it's fewer calories and nutrients.

In the first year, the solids are for experiencing new tastes and textures, not primarily for nutrition. At 5-6 months, baby doesn't really need much - in fact new research is showing that breastfed babies can go 8-9 months before starting solids with no problem. Health professionals take a while to catch up to new research and change their recommendations, especially if they have a strong opinon that the way they fed their baby was the best, but the direction it is going as we learn more about infant nutrition, is to wait even longer and go slower.

Three meals a day doesn't usually come til sometime after the first birthday, if things are on the right track. With the addition of solids, slower is better.

I personally think that at her age and considering that she still gets bottles; 3 -4 tablespoons of instant cereal mixed with her formula should be plenty. If she is not satisfied with that then give her a bit more; that with a bottle should be a healthy hearty meal

burping is a good ideal, but from what I have found there really is not as much air intake with solid foods as with milk as the weight of the solid food pushes away air as it is swallowed...

most of the burping comes from too much weight on the stomach from solid food at one time.

Give cereal from a spoon not a bottle this is a good way to introduce her to eating and a good way of table bonding with you and your daughter also
hope this helps

Dear A.,
It's not a bad idea to turn your baby up and burp her after eating baby food. Swallowing air causes gas which causes tummy aches which causes crying.
Getting the hang of breathing and eating at the same time takes a while.
Congratulations on your baby girl!

Hi A.!! I had great eaters as well. I really, really liked the book Baby 411. It had great charts and very easy-to-read Q & A and was our top reference!! (now we use Toddler 411). Anyway, the book has guidelines as to what babies need and at what stages. As I understand it, solid food feedings are just to get the little guys used to textures and stimulate tongue development, not nutrition. I used to nurse my boys, then do the rice cereal because otherwise I couldn't shovel it in fast enough!! Good Luck!!

Wow, you have a hungry baby! Some people will tell you that you shouldn't feed babies at that age, but you have to do what is right for the baby. You can go to different doctors and get told different things regarding solid foods. I had a baby that started solids at 4 months, because she was ready for them. I was holding off because the "experts" said wait until 6 months to introduce solids. I was breastfeeding, and literally had my breast in her mouth on a near constant basis. After verifying that she was indeed eating, and not just pacifying, the doctor told me to start her on solids.

You should still be burping after feeding baby solids. And you might want to consider just 1 jar of food and finish off with a bottle. Some babies will just keep going, and you have to cut them off. It seems that she is getting overfull if she eats until she throws up. I have seem this with a niece of mine.

And by the way, 7 bottles a day should not turn into 3 meals any time soon. Smaller meals more frequently are recommended for everyone, child and adult alike. This helps regulate the metabolism better, and helps with having energy all throughout the day.

S.

From what my doctor told me, there is a lot of water in baby food so it could be that your baby is not satisfied and so she is able to eat two containers full. Do you add rice cereal or oatmeal? That will thicken it and make it a bit more substantial and perhaps tide her over a bit longer. When I started my daughter on solids--I think I gave her a 1/4 cup of rice cereal or oatmeal mixed with fruit (baby food)---that seemed to fill her up. Good Luck.