FEEDING SCHEDULE FOR YOUR NEW BABY MARMOSET MONKEY

From 8 up to 12 weeks of age……you will give approximately 5cc of formula every 5 hours during the day and one night feeding (early morning around 2-3 am). The 5 cc syringe will increase up to 10 cc as your baby gets older from 8 weeks to the full 12 weeks. All depends on what your baby will take. If they don’t want anymore than the 5 cc don’t increase till they seem hungry and want more than the 5 cc.

13 weeks of age…..you will give according to what your baby is wanting but up to the 10 cc. You will now be feeding your baby every 6 hours and it’s at this time you can stop the early morning feeds. Your last feed for the night should be around 10:00 – 11:00 pm. Starting your morning feed from 6:00 -7:00 am.

When you pick up your baby you need to provide a water bottle in their cage because they will be using it at this age. At 8 to 10 weeks you will start offering mashed banana, very small bits of apple and cooked mashed sweet potato all in a shallow bowl in their cage to get them use to eating solid foods. You can wean your baby between 3-4 months of age but I prefer to still give a bottle in the morning and one at night to my companion just to let him know I’m still the mommy. This seems to keep them more tame and loving towards you, that’s why I do it.

Keeping them on the bottle as they mature

Now I’ll go into more detail about my baby Einstein and my choice of keeping him on his bottle. By keeping him on his bottle helps at keeping him more attached to me and more like a baby. Before his nightly feeding he give me such love, he’ll literally hug and kiss on me for about 45 minutes and of course I love and kiss on him too. This happens every single evening and I just love it!

By making this decision to keep him on his bottle I had to take into consideration how much sugar he was getting from each bottle feed and go about changing his formula so he doesn’t keep getting so much sugar in his diet. These little guys can get diabetes just like us so it’s best to limit their intake of sugar. I’ve now got him on almond milk which contains no sugar and I blend ¼ of a banana into that. I’ve also cut the baby formula down to ½ scoop limiting his iron intake and I still use the baby rice cereal to thicken it up. The baby rice cereal is low in sugar. I’ve also cut down the amount I give him, he’s only getting 7 cc at this point in time and I’ll continue to cut that back till he only gets 5 cc for breakfast and dinner feeds. If in time, I see he needs other changes to his formula I’ll make those changes but at this point he’s loving his bottle feeds and eating most of his solid food, so I’m happy!