within reason, reasonable?
Yes, by definition.
Practically yeah fine. If they are too full, it comes back out.
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That sounds fine. Digestion of a large meal is soporific at all ages, not to worry.
It's basically impossible to overfeed an infant. Like you say, they mostly know when to stop, and they'll just spit up whatever they can't handle.
Thanks! They’re good about saying no
Look up cluster feeding.
Yes. Some think it's good as it teaches them to self manage eating based on body signals like hunger and satiation rather than just eating what's in front of them and eating due to emotional reasons. Look into division of responsibility eating.
My baby will get extra hungry and sleep extra long when they're going through a growth spurt.
I'm not a doctor, and maybe someone else will say it's bad... But for what it's worth we also let our infant eat until they think they're done. Sometimes is an incredible amount of food... Like as much as I'd eat for the meal.
We try to restrict eating to mealtimes, though. Again, not a doctor, but we don't want him to think eating is just something you do when you're bored
Thank you!
Also not a physician, but I'd say I'd agree as long as it's not ultraprocessed food they're eating more of - food which is designed to hack your innate pleasure responses.
The thing to remember though is all that growing children do is literally made from the food they eat. They need to eat a lot to grow, and calorie restriction can drastically impact development and long term health outcomes. There's lots of research on that in children post-famine.
Thanks you all are both very helpful. That makes sense. Didn’t think about it that way for their growth