Hellobee Boards Topic: How do you decide how much to put in a bottle?

Hellobee Boards Topic: How do you decide how much to put in a bottle? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:02:49 +0000 Mrs Green Grass on "How do you decide how much to put in a bottle?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-decide-how-much-to-put-in-a-bottle#post-762005 Sun, 05 May 2013 14:15:27 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 762005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We are very concerned with lo's weight so we have to always make sure he takes as much. I do reuse bottles a little bit - maybe a couple of times. But I mostly fill his average amount and then bring a larger ( clean) bottle with me and refill if needed. JoyfulKiwi on "How do you decide how much to put in a bottle?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-decide-how-much-to-put-in-a-bottle#post-762003 Sun, 05 May 2013 14:13:39 +0000 JoyfulKiwi 762003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We didn't have any weight gain issues, but when our son started daycare I asked our pediatrician how much he should be drinking in a day. Then I divided that by the number of times he eats a day. It came out to about 110ml a bottle. We tried that for a while and adjusted when he seemed hungrier (and then back down again when he started leaving a bunch in his bottle). lomom on "How do you decide how much to put in a bottle?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-decide-how-much-to-put-in-a-bottle#post-761965 Sun, 05 May 2013 13:22:53 +0000 lomom 761965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ LO gets expressed breastmilk by bottle and we are trying to find a balance between offering enough but not being wasteful. Some feedings he'll eat 75cc, sometimes he'll eat 45cc, other times, it's 60cc. He doesn't have a pattern (we write down how much we offered, what he left in the bottle, what he ate, and if there were any extenuating circumstances like if he had hiccups) so we just offer whatever his current max is (the most he's ever taken in a feeding) which results in some wasted breastmilk, though it gives him the opportunity to take in all the calories he wants (he was born at 35.5 weeks and is eating fortified breast milk to ensure he gains appropriately). How do you decide how much to put in a bottle? We don't re-refrigerate what's been heated up so once it goes into the bottle, it either goes in LO or goes down the sink.