Formula fed babies...how many oz/ml?
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She is just unsettled as sometimes I loose count of the oz I’ve given her
My baby is 2 weeks old and is on 4oz, do you keep her upright for a while after feeding? X
Yeah we tried 5oz defo gave bad belly. I think it’s best to give less more often x
We do paced feeding and keep her upright, the only thing I can think of is the extra oz is a comfort feed rather than hunger. Is it worth trying a dummy?
Mines 3 weeks and is the same. She sometimes goes from 4oz to 5oz so quite hard to judge sometimes! X
My midwife recommended trying to consistently feed every 3 hours to get an extra feed in, rather than go up anymore mls in a sitting to avoid bloating/trapped wind! Not sure if this makes sense, but instead of us doing 100ml for 6 feeds (every 4hours) which means baby gets 600ml total, we do 90ml for 8 feeds (every 3 hours) which means baby gets 720ml total for the day!
We offer our 4 week old 5oz every 3-4 hours, sometimes he has 3oz, sometimes he drinks the whole thing. We do keep him upright after for at least 20 mins after. We do have a dummy too & this seems to settle him because I think like you he we doing it to soothe himself x
@Danielle was planning on doing this too with every feed but I don’t know if I’ll end up wasting the formula if she doesn’t finish everything , it just gives me headache 😂😂😂
@Valerie ha yeah it can be a bit of a waste but I just find it easier in the beginning whilst they are finding their way. I prefer that then having to use another bottle to offer more like an hour or so after because they need topping up x
Makes sense
Mine wakes up 2-3 hours is it normal ??
@Valerie in the night or in general? We usually offer every 3 hours in the day and then last night I fed at 10:30 and he woke up at 3am for a bottle then again at 6. Do you write down the oz when you feed? I did that with my first which helped keep track, I’m not so good this time lol x
Yesterday she slept on and off 2 hours about twice And throughout the night too She slept at 10 and woke up at 12ish am And didn’t sleep till 3 and woke up at 5ish And from 5ish till 7:21 I was exhausted
@Danielle trust me I try to keep track of her dosage but it gets tiring So now I just do 120ml and then after burping and changing her nappy she wakes up and is giving hunger cues so I give her another 60 Sometimes she finishes all the top up and I’m required to do another 30ml for comfort feed for her to fall asleep or she sometimes don’t finish the 60ml and 30ml out of that goes to waste and I really get angry 😒
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Cos clearly she can finish it and sleep for longer
But she just sleeps and reviving her just doesn’t work so I just hold her upright and burp her and put her down
@Valerie your baby sounds exactly like mine
2.5 weeks - started hitting 3oz last 24 hours but we have also seen a bit of an impact - more fussy, seems to struggle with wind and poop… so maybe is over eating as she is still tiny (around 6.4lbs now). Give the dummy a go if you aren’t against them
My 5 week old has 6oz every 4 hours apart from at night where he will go 6-7 hours without feeding
My baby is 4 weeks and takes 4oz then if she’s still hungry I make up an extra 2oz we are using the dr browns bottles as baby likes to guzzle so the bottles work slower so there’s isn’t as much to wind her x
@Natalie lucky you wish my little one could sleep for that long
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