Well I won't try to convince you but from everything you describe he seems hungry and needs slower to digest food that will leave him satisfied throughout the night. Would a glass of milk satisfy you all night. We get the same advice you have been given medically but this is a case where I believe my mom, grandma, her mother and the 394858925793857293 other moms who have made cereal bottles for their babies as they hit this stretching point know best. I don't know one child who was harmed or had digestive difficulties due to it.

Of course my #1 son who is a veggie head now used to have a standard size bottle with a small jar of say pea or peaches baby food, the bottle filled with rice cereal and then formula added to mix it all. The bottle was shaken and a huge X cut in the nipple. He would suck the bottle until it caved in. This was at 4 months old. He had no trouble moving to solids as he already new how to manage thicker textures. Aside from the vegetarian choice, he's height and weight proportionate.

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