My breastfed baby took 2 oz bottles from my mom for the longest time (short babysitting stints, not FT). She's almost 5 months now and I'm wondering if the same rule goes - she nurses every 2 hours or so still but no idea if she's getting more or will be hungrier after 2 oz.
How big of a bottle did you leave your breastfed baby around 5 months, if you would be gone a couple hours?
cantaloupe / 6171 posts
My baby has always been a snacker-- for for daycare I usually packed 3 oz bottles of breastmilk and 5 oz bottles of formula (I supplemented and so didn't care if the formula got wasted; she usually drank btw 3-5 oz at a time)
honeydew / 7303 posts
At daycare she would get 5oz bottles around that old. Sometimes she would drink the whole thing and sometimes she would drink 3ish oz
squash / 13208 posts
at that age 4 ozs every 3 hours
eta: My kids took 4oz every 3 hours from 12 weeks until we stopped with bottles at 1 yr old
nectarine / 2210 posts
At 4 months we went from 4 to 4.5 ounces, although sometimes it's closer to 4 still depending on what I pump the day before. She takes 4 bottles during the day from about 8:30 to 4.
pear / 1610 posts
Yea, my kids never followed the ounce per hour thing except maybe when they were 1 or 2 months old! I think when I went back to work about 3 months for each of them they were eating 4-5 oz every 3 hours. DS wouldn't alway make it to 3 hrs. Around 6 months it was probably 5-6 oz every 3 hrs unless they had a meal in between bottles too.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
Supposedly, what they drink at 1 month is the same as what they drink at 6 months. The milk just gets fattier as they get older.
Both kids drank 5 oz bottles every 3 hours, though when I've done weighted feeds, they generally don't eat as much directly from the breast.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
I read that your milk changes in content as your baby grows to accommodate his/her needs, so they technically can drink the same amount the whole time they BF.
DD has drank between 3-5 oz every 3-4 hours since 3 months when I went back to work and she's now 6 months.
grapefruit / 4235 posts
My son always took 3 oz bottles every 3 hours, and my daughter's on track to do the same. For my son, we did bump him up to 4 oz bottles when he was about 5 months old - when they're moving around a lot more but not quite ready for solids. Then we bumped it back down after intro'ing solid food.
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
I've heard the same 1-1.5 oz per hour. Until they are really good at solids
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