Kalyna started off slow, we feed her one bowl a day but quickly moved to feeding her 3 times a day once she enjoyed it. (We used formula, not breastmilk for the cereal).

We still had to feed her at night for a while.. it took some time until we fed her enough during the day and she learned she wasn’t going to get a midnight snack and could survive..

Our feeding routine goes like this now:

Breastfed when she wakes up… (6:30am – 7)
breakfast – 8am
lunch – noon
dinner – 4pm
breastfed when put down for the night – 7pm

We occasionally do a feeding at night if she wakes up.. I know she falls asleep easier with a late night feeding, but she’s sleeping well through the night now..

Even when we fed her rice ceral, we had to force the sleep training… Kalyna would wake up normally at the same times even after we did rice cereal and formula until we did sleep training…

We actually kept track how many feedings we were giving her at night, and just slowly tried to weed them out… We noticed that when I went in and patted her to sleep, she would pretty much fall back asleep. If Yun even came in the room, it was chaos.. Baby smells the milk :)

Good luck.. don’t give up :)

The perpetrators probably fed their youngster much earlier. I fed Ian rice cereal before he was a month old (a tiny teaspoon), which was a little early even then, but he did slurp it up and slept through the night. I was told by my pediatrician that it was OK to give babies rice cereal because they wouldn’t develop an allergy to it and I was desperate and sleep-deprived. As I told Ian, the advice doctors give changes back and forth (and not only on this question), but the babies still seem to survive. By 6 months old, my boys were scarfing up 1-2 jars of baby food a day. I guess they just got started so young they didn’t know any better .