Formula babies

How many ounces and how often are your babies eating? 5 months old. We recently transitioned from breast milk to formula due to slow weight gain and a decrease in my supply. My baby takes the formula fine but her schedule of eating has become so random. Sometimes she will only eat a couple ounces and sometimes she will take 4-5 oz. Sometimes she wants to eat after 2 hours but other times she will not want to eat for 4-5 hours. I am also noticing that she doesn’t want to eat for longer periods in the mornings but as the day goes on she eats more. Now she does her best eating in the middle of the night?! Has this just become a habit?? I don’t want to deny her feeds in the middle of the night because I want her to get the calories and if she’s hungry I want her to eat. Any ideas??
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How is she sleeping overnight? For this a age anything between 25-30. My baby does 26- we do 6 in the morning and 5 for the next 4 feeds and the last feed at 7 before she goes to sleep then she wakes up at 7. She has been sleeping through the night since 10 weeks with no waking- but we also makes sure she gets her calories in during the day. Lately; we have been doing split feeds so she will eat like for a little after waking and then we feed the rest before she goes down or to top her off before a nap… we also have her on a wake to feed schedule and have since day one and watch wake windows and it honestly has made everything pretty smooth: the only time this changes is days she goes to swim we feed her more as she is hungrier those days

Based on your timeline above it seems like you just let her be awake and sleep when she wants?

4/6oz 5 times a day. She sleeps 7pm-6am.

My girl is still waking up 2 to 3 times a night to eat. And she will take a full 4-5 ounces. She eats more at night than during the day sometimes. We go to bed around 8. And she will wake to eat again at around 1am, 4am, and sometimes 6am and fall back asleep until 730-8

@Laura my baby does the exact same thing!

My baby is on a schedule and gets her ounces during the day but is still waking at 1am and 4am for a bottle

We are at 7oz for every 4-5hrs, and sleep at 7/8pm, feed again at 12 and he’s up at 6-8am. He will wake up around 3/4am, but we been trying to skip this feed, we will calm him to put him back to sleep, but if he’s fussy and refuse to sleep, we will give him couple oz.

Mine is sleeping through the whole night, tends to sleep around 9/10pm and wakes up 7/8am, he has 8-10 oz about every 4 hrs.

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