So Xander is 5 months and drinks just breastmilk. Since he started daycare at 12 weeks, we've been sending three 5oz bottles. I THOUGHT that was enough. He eats at the same times at daycare as he nurses on the weekends, and can always go 3 hours from his last bottle at daycare to when I nurse him at home.

BUT the daycare provider has told me that he gets hungry about 30 minutes early (so he can only go 2.5 hours between feeds, not 3 hours), and suggested that I increase the amount in his bottles.

He also just spent the weekend at his grandparents. I left them BM, so he got six 5oz bottles a day (30oz a day). When we picked him up this morning, SMIL told me that he was STARVING and that she didn't think 5oz wasn't enough.

Soooo... is it possible my baby actually DOES need more BM than I've been providing in his bottles? How do you know if they are actually getting enough? (At home, he nurses, and I can tell by his wet diapers and the fact that he seems satisfied that he's getting enough, but I don't know how wet his diapers are at daycare - only that it's wet every time they change it, which is every 2 hours) I feel like 30oz a day really should be plenty, but do some babies actually need more?

Any insight you guys might have would be helpful. During the week, he drinks 3 bottles at daycare and nurses 3 times at home (so 6 feeds) and sleeps through the night. On the weekends, we nurse 6 times and he sleeps through the night. So his schedule is identical at home vs daycare, just he gets bottles at daycare and I'm told he's hungry. Help!