How much expressed breastmilk should I be feeding my son?
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I echo abbey. Mine is drinking up to 180 but then in the morning his snacks more with 90ml - 110 through to the afternoon. Mine is 7 weeks today. Annoying he give hunger cues sometimes has two sips of a new bottle and then falls asleep!!
Same here with the variability. Earlier today my nearly 8w old had 10ml and another time 170. Averaging 130ish I take a storage bottle with the milk in when I feed him and just top up his bottle as I go if he's still hungry, then we don't get as much wasted milk
1-1.5 Oz per hour since last feed is the usual advice. Lots of lactation consultants will say there's never a need to give more than 5oz to a bf baby in one go
My 7 week old (tomorrow) has a 4oz bottle once a day but again like all the others sometimes she won’t drink it all although 8/10 she will x
@Charley we’ve seen a private lactation consultant and tongue tie specialist and she said the same thing.
How old is he? I have a nearly 8 week old and she has 120ml of breast milk roughly every 3 hours but sometimes she wants more (150-180ml) sometimes she doesn’t finish the original 120 and only has 90ml so I don’t think there’s a right amount just go by him, if he’s still hungry feed until full - I always warm up 120 and then do more if she wants more x