How do know of your baby has been overfed? My 10 month old boy eat porridge twice a day, and drink abt 800-900ml of bm per day.. Is this too much? Mil can feed him porridge af 530pm, a btl of milk at 730pm another at 830pm he is drinking 130ml per feed..but the thg is during weekend whn i am with him, he only drink about 550-600ml of milk and having same qty of porridge Mil feed him milk when he start to get cranky, i suspect he needed some comfort to slp rather then drinking of milk. Am reluctant is offer pacifier to him now.. any advise wat else can i do to know if he is overfeed? or wat can i do to soothe him to slp rather than feed him milk?

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I recall nurses and some mommies told me before babies won't be over feed. If they feel full they won't open their mouth or they may puke out some food. How is your boy's weight ? If he is still within the normal range and proportionate to his height I don't think it is of concern. Drinking a little more milk is fine. Actually I tend to feed my baby more than my mil. She is 11mo and eating solids twice a day but dinner only eat a little. She still drinks about 800ml milk , sometimes lesser but is around 700ml. I will give her milk one hour after porridge. My mil will skip the milk after her solids which I don't like because before one year old the staple should still be milk and nurses have told me that babies should still be drinking 700-800ml now. Anyway my gal also did not fussy when my mil did not give her milk and when I give she also finish Almost the whole bottle. But my gals weight gain is not very good so I don't mind to feed her more. So it all depends on your baby's weight gain but I really won't worry too much

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9y ago

my boy was 9.7kg(3wks ago) standing 73cm.. suspect he has already hit or exceed 10kg mark.. im thinking will he drink just for the sake of sucking the teats? there are times where i cant soothe him i gav him the teats to suckle.. he calm down after tat.. mil n myself dont favor pacifier..