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I agree that's too much. Have you thought about offering them some resources on paced feeding?

Well, at 4 months, my son was taking 5-6oz of pumped breastmilk per feeding, for a total of 28-30oz a day.

Mine never took more than 5 either... They really shouldn't need to drink that much since the content of your milk changes to meet their needs. I mean, if you have a good stash going he can have 5 each time? If not I'd just see if they can just do 4. We never pace feed b/c it was hard enough to get her to take the bottle as is, but she was always still happy with 4-5.

My baby has never taken more than 4 oz bottles of breastmilk. Sometimes she would eat more often, so she'd take about 3.5 oz every 2 hours, but in one sitting, no more than 4 oz.

6 ounces I would say would be the max if they are stretching feedings to every 3-4 hours. But if they are wanting to eat more like every 2-3 hours and aren't taking long naps, breaking the ounces up may work better.

I had a similar problem when I went back to work (http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-breastmilk-is-too-much). It seems like it was a combination of wanting that extra comfort of feeding while I was away and he was adjusting to something new and the new care-giver having trouble getting him to nap and he got over-tired.

I just allowed him to "over-eat" and it worked itself out.

Honestly it's not worth stressing over. Give him whatever he eats. My first son started off eating 3oz at each feeding at home but at daycare it kept going up and up until he was at 8oz 3-4 times a day. I was so stressed about it but in the end if he was really over eating he'd throw it up. Babies do eat more when they get older and it can go up pretty fast.

I know lactation consultants always talk about paced feeding and how BM changes with the baby so they usually eat the same amount as they get older but I didn't find this to be true. Plus babies are a lot more efficient at getting all the milk out than breast pumps so what you pump isn't exactly what they eat.

I was taught in the NICU how to read feeding cues. My babies will open their mouth and cry when they are still hungry. My babies are primarily formula fed. The short time I was BF and pumping, they did not seem to get full enough (BM is less calories than formula).

There were a few times where my daughter would drink too much and throw it up, but it's rare.

At 4 months of age, they were both taking about 150ml or 5 oz of formula. Not sure if this matters but they were preemies and at 4 months of age, they were 3 months adjusted age.

We were advised recently by our pediatrician to start waking them up to feed because they weren't gaining enough weight.