https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:02:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-252499 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:56:19 +0000 Mrs. Bee 252499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cvbee: you never know if you might need your stash one day. mrs. wagon's milk supply completely dried up when she took decongestants at 7 months. but she had enough freezer stash to give wagon jr one bottle/day until he was 1.</p> <p>you go through 12 bags really fast, as that's only 2-3 days of milk. might as well cycle through the milk before it gets too old! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246888 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:03:48 +0000 cvbee 246888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: My stash is just for emergencies. I have about 12 bags right now, all from July, and stopped at that. I was thinking about storing 50 bags (all my bags) but now I think that would be silly. LO usually gets a bottle only once a week when I go to yoga and I usually pump a fresh one for that the night before, which never hits the freezer. So maybe I'll try that idea of giving a freezer bag on yoga night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246878 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:56:28 +0000 Mrs. Bee 246878@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cvbee: regularly cycle through your freezer stash so that it doesn't get too old. for instance i freeze all my fresh milk on friday since i nurse all weekend, then i defrost 2 bags of milk sunday night so that i'm constantly cycling through my frozen stash. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246874 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:55:00 +0000 cvbee 246874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: this business of breastmilk getting fattier as baby gets older makes me wonder if there is any point in getting much of a freezer stash going, since it might be the 'wrong' milk by the time LO uses it? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246867 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:52:23 +0000 AprilK 246867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah... my kid ate ALOT. I was using the giant bottles way faster than anyone else I knew. And I will say he ate more than most of my friends' kids. But he wasn't a huge chunker - always like 50% for weight at his well baby checks. You could try giving him a few pumped bottles to get a feel for how much he's eating at a time? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246862 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:48:34 +0000 Zuzu2and11 246862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@AprilK: That is a lot! Hopefully I can save enough in time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246390 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:39:03 +0000 AprilK 246390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only pumped, my son never caught on to nursing, but at 8 months he was eating 5-6 oz in each bottle and he'd have 5-6 bottles a day. So.... it was between 25-36 oz. Alot! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246290 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:57:18 +0000 Zuzu2and11 246290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaCate: @Thehistoryofus: Thanks for the replies! I'll aim for that goal. </p> <p>@Mrs. Bee: Thanks for the info! I had heard that previously, but I didn't know how much of a difference there could be. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246209 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:35:48 +0000 Mrs. Bee 246209@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Zuzu2and11: babies drink more formula than breastmilk because breastmilk becomes fattier as your baby gets older to meet their nutritional needs. so they do not drink more breastmilk as they get older. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246199 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0000 T.H.O.U. 246199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree that 25 ounces is probably a good goal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246182 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:30:02 +0000 MamaCate 246182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO just turned 8 months. She has two 5 1/2 oz bottles at dayccare, then i nurse her 4 additional times: morning, after work, before bed and overnight. I think i read on kellymom that bf babies average 25 oz a day until 6 months and then start tapering off with the intro of solids. So maybe 25 oz per day could be a goal? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246168 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:27:33 +0000 Zuzu2and11 246168@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>15 oz makes me feel a lot better about my ability to save enough up! I was thinking it would be closer to 32 oz a day because that is what the baby I used to nanny for would eat (formula)! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246118 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:13:21 +0000 Mrs. Bee 246118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>olive is almost 10 months and how much she eats hasn't changed for the past couple of months. she gets an average of 15 oz/day including her bedtime bottle, but she still wakes up once or twice in the middle of the night and nurses. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/exclusive-pumpers-how-much-did-lo-eat-at-8-months#post-246099 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:11:17 +0000 Zuzu2and11 246099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I will be leaving for a trip when LO is almost 8 months old, and I am at a loss of how much breastmilk I should have ready for him! We normally only breastfeed so I don't know how much he eats at a time/how much he eats in a day. </p> <p>How much did your LO eat in a day, and how much at a time? </p>