At 5-6 months, even if the baby drinks too much milk, there will be no more "anorexia milk powder" as before. Babies who can eat always show that they are not enough no matter how much they give, but they cannot increase the amount of milk indefinitely to satisfy the baby's appetite, so it is easy to make the baby obese. No matter how much the baby can eat, the total amount per day should be controlled to less than 1000 ml. Most babies are given 200 ml 5 times a day. Some babies may not have enough to eat 200 ml. If the baby does not wake up once at night after drinking 250 ml of milk before going to bed, 250 ml can be given before going to bed. However, it is necessary to appropriately reduce the amount of milk during the day, that is, 1 of the 5 milk should be reduced to 150 ml, and the insufficient part can be replaced by juice or vegetable soup.
In general, when the baby is five or six months old, you deliberately lay the foundation of the giant child. Therefore, babies who can drink milk powder are best measured once every 10 days. Normal is to gain 150-200 grams of body weight every 10 days. If more than 200 grams are added, they must be controlled. More than 300 grams have the tendency to become giant children, at this time parents can give some juice or vegetable soup before feeding or after drinking milk.
Since the transition to weaning begins gradually from this month onwards, the amount of food eaten by the baby can be adjusted with weaning foods. Babies with a particularly strong appetite can replace milk powder with rice porridge. Rice porridge is less nutritious but can fill the stomach. Babies who can generally eat don't care much about the taste of the food, as long as it is eaten. If 200 ml of milk does not seem to be enough to drink, you can feed some rice porridge or vegetable soup and clear soup before drinking milk powder, and then feed 200 ml of milk powder (try to feed only 180 ml). This is the approach taken for babies with large amounts of food. For infants who are satisfied with 180 ml of milk 5 times a day, it is generally given milk substitute food first, and then 180 ml of milk powder is fed.
For infants who did not like to drink milk powder, if the average weight gained less than 10 grams per day, they should try to start eating weaning foods and appropriately accelerate the process of weaning. Babies with small amounts of food often don't love these foods as much as they think, and babies with fewer formulas don't like to eat weaned foods. Even then there is no need to worry, as this is a way of life for babies who eat less.
By this time, the premature baby will run out of iron that the mother obtains. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement weaned foods from this month.