A question on feeding formula after weaning

[CritterMom]

Mister P celebrated his 15 week birthday last Thursday. Mister P still drinks formula twice a day. From a syringe (no stinking bowl lapping for my boy). He still takes about 10cc twice a day, and the evening meal is VERY appreciated. I ask him "Do you want your milky meal" and he gets very excited.

I look at this as an insurance policy - lots of calcium, lots of nutrients, all sucked down eagerly, but I want to know if there are any downsides to this that I am not considering. FYI, I am doing the 1:2 Esbilac with cream and yogurt added.

He eats his solids with great gusto, so it isn't cutting into that. For example, today he has a couple fresh cranberries, a half a grape, some cauliflower, string beans, sugar snap peas, part of a portabella mushroom, diced cucumber, a couple small cubes of apple, plus one big Zupreem block and some of his HHBs. There is also an almond in the shell under a heavy pyrex custard cup that he was pushing around when I left for work this morning, trying to figure out how to get the goodie (just because I am a big meanie and I can).

So is it okay for my big baby to be a big baby?

[island rehabber]

I say yes, absolutely. It ensures that he will get calcium and other vitamins, and it can't hurt him. It's after my squirrels are weaned that I worry every day about what they are --and aren't -- eating.

[rippie-n-lilgirlsmom]

Mister P celebrated his 15 week birthday last Thursday. Mister P still drinks formula twice a day. From a syringe (no stinking bowl lapping for my boy). He still takes about 10cc twice a day, and the evening meal is VERY appreciated. I ask him "Do you want your milky meal" and he gets very excited.

I look at this as an insurance policy - lots of calcium, lots of nutrients, all sucked down eagerly, but I want to know if there are any downsides to this that I am not considering. FYI, I am doing the 1:2 Esbilac with cream and yogurt added.

He eats his solids with great gusto, so it isn't cutting into that. For example, today he has a couple fresh cranberries, a half a grape, some cauliflower, string beans, sugar snap peas, part of a portabella mushroom, diced cucumber, a couple small cubes of apple, plus one big Zupreem block and some of his HHBs. There is also an almond in the shell under a heavy pyrex custard cup that he was pushing around when I left for work this morning, trying to figure out how to get the goodie (just because I am a big meanie and I can).

So is it okay for my big baby to be a big baby?
You bettcha he can be a big baby forever, if everyone had this insurance policy fiqured out like you there would be less mbd~!:thumbsup

[CritterMom]

Thanks. Thought I was on the right course.

About that almond under the custard cup? At lunch it was still there! I was shocked. I lifted the cup for just a second and he was on it in a flash. These guys are really queued in on scent, not sight. He couls see it easily, but he needed to smell it before he went for it!

[Nancy in New York]

I wished mine would always stay on formula and on the syringe...just love the feeding...