Bottle feeding

Any tips on how to get my baby to drink larger volumes less often. Current on 120ml every 2hrs (8am-9pm) mostly draining the bottle. Ideally like to get up to 150ml every 3 hours. Currently if I make 150ml he wouldn’t even take 120ml of it and stops at around 100ml which is a waste. On the odd occasion he does take 145ml. It’s more the time between feeds I want to increase to give more freedom to do things in the day.
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With my baby I just waited till he was consistently draining every bottle he was having throughout the day, over a day or 2 then I knew that’s when he was needing a larger amount. Also, of course every baby is different, but what I found was he was stopping half way through a bottle and pushing it out with his tongue, so burped him and tried the bottle again and he’d finish the whole thing

I had this with my baby what I done was I gave him 120 ml during the day then the bedtime bottle gave him the 150ml for a week so he got used to it then started giving him the 150ml during the day. Plus it helped my baby sleep through the night, I hope this helps x

My LB used to feed every 4 hours but as he’s getting older (nearly 19 weeks now) he feeds larger volumes but 2-3 hourly now in the day. He fills up in the day and then sleeps all night. Try offering a larger amount, and maybe look at your teat size if baby is seeming tired during the feeds. You can’t force them to have more as they will only take what they want. But those are a couple things you can try. But if baby is full up they’re full up. You can’t control how often they want fed. Babies digest milk really quick hence how often they feed. And like I say myself and others I know babies have actually increased the day time frequency themselves. But they sleep all night. How come it stops you having freedom during the day? X

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