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Do you stagger infant meals or serve all at once?
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My infant eats when everyone else eats. Mine nurses or dcg has a bottle as needed, but meals take place with everyone else. -
Do you serve the bottle then the meal following?Comment
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I serve infants on demand. If they're hungry they eat, if they're not, they don't.
If they show signs of hunger around the same time that the others need to eat and the infant can have a combination of bottles and pureed foods and can hold their own bottle then I'll give them the bottle first then serve the other kids then give the infant the pureed food. This works out well usually.
If they can eat some soft solids then I put them on the infants tray and they can try feeding themselves first while I serve the others then I'll come back to the infant and help.Comment
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Babies eat breakfast and lunch with the big kids. Bottle first and then table food. One baby takes a little extra bottle after she eats her meal because she needs that extra comfort time. Afternoon bottle is during big kids snack usually.Comment
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Ok! Thanks
My little one isn't hungry after her bottle... I will just offer and not worry. Breastmilk/formula first and foremost!Comment
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My infants have bottles on demand. Baby food breakfast and lunch are offered around the same time as the older children, but not necessarily at the same time. When they start with finger foods they eat with the older children, but still have bottles on their own schedules.Comment
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