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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.

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?

@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.

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!

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?

@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.

@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.

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!