I'm shocked and curious - Vent -

[sunshynbaby]

A facebook "friend" of mine made status update about trying to get her four month old to sleep through the night by feeding her six ounces of formula with rice cereal and an entire bottle of fruit (the baby woke up again 2 1/2 hours later wanting food/comfort). First of all, I was shocked that a baby that young could hold that much food. The most shocking thing was all the comments back encouraging her overfeed her baby, saying that she could deal with the weight gain later but she needs her sleep now. They talked about how cute chubby babies were, that she would have an excuse to buy bigger baby clothes, etc.

Is overfeeding to get a baby to sleep a common thing? No wonder we have such a bad obesity epedimic in America! I've heard about CIO, but not overfeed it out! I very nicely suggested she try dreamfeeding (a reasonable amount) and read some Dr. Sears (the link about baby's sleep and The No Cry Sleep Solution). If anyone has links about overfeeding and sleeping, please share. I'm sure I'm going to get some comments back, but I plan to click "unfriend" soon because I have a feeling I don't want to read about her next adventures in parenting. I can't read about someone making their child obese so they can get some sleep. That is one of the most selfish things I ever heard

[fyrwmn]

wow, that's alot of food! i'm pretty sure ds couldn't hold that much and he's 6 months with a big appetite. not that we'd try to feed that much, or really believe that it would help with sleeping. i think that sadly it happens alot though. look at all the people that load their babies up with cereal to make them sleep. if you value this persons friendship and would rather just not read her parenting ideas but don't want to actually unfriend her,. you can hide her posts so you don't have to see them. just hold the mouse over their post and the word 'hide' will pop up on the right hand side of the post

[InMediasRes]

I would think the baby is waking up with a tummy ache, not from hunger. Poor thing.

If she's not friend enough to say something to her, than just hide her updates so you don't have to go through all the emotions when she posts something like that.

[justKate]

I've heard crazy things from friends, too--strawberry syrup in bottles with formula "because they deserve some variety too!" *eyes rolling* How to you counter that?!