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At 4 months, DS1 ate about 7 bottles of 8oz. Maybe even 8 bottles. He usually finished every bottle. He started baby food at 4 months and started dropping bottles slowly.

DS2 is more like Fia. I usually prepare 6 oz bottles and sometimes he drinks them all and sometimes he leaves a few ounces. He probably has 8-9 bottles in 24 hours but some of those may be "snack" bottles.

My boys tend to eat a lot.

I prepare the bottles in a big batch. So if I want 5 six ounce bottles, I'll mix 28 ounces if water with 14 scoops. It makes about 30 ounces or so. So in your example, I would count it as 6.75 ounces if she drinks it all.

Well my 5 mo is BF and bottle fed (pumped BM 3x/day) but she eats 7 times in 24 hours.

At 4 months she was taking 3-4oz bottles over the daytime when I was gone but I started increasing her bottles over the past month because of sleep regression and the fact that her bedtime at 8pm meant she had dropped the 8th feeding. Giving her bigger bottles during the day (I think) has helped her sleep better at night. So she is 5m1w and I give her 2 6oz bottles (tried one with 7oz today, will see if she finished) and 1 4.5oz bottle. The reason for the 4.5oz one is because she eats that one at 3-3:30 and I am home at 5 and I like to nurse her then.

Otherwise, she nurses at 5pm, 7:30pm, and right now around 2am and 5am. Bottles are around 9am, 12pm, and 3pm.

So I would offer her a bigger bottle. If she doesn't want it she'll leave it in the bottle and if it really is too much for her tummy it'll probably come right back up But I don't think there's any harm in offering it, she might just take it! 7oz doesn't seem too big to me, there's no harm in offering it.

How many oz on average does she eat in one day? I'd just try to keep up that # of oz, 4 feedings a day does seem a little low to me for a 4-5 month old but I imagine if she's getting the same number of oz it would be fine.

Every four hours, like clockwork, the entire first year.

Lo is almost one (!) And this is her schedule:
6 ish am 8 oz bottle of formula
7:30-8ish ambreakfast of solid foods
9 am 5 oz bottle of formula
11 am lunch of solids
12 pm 5 oz bottle of formula
Nap
3 pm 5 oz bottle of formula
5:30 ish dinner of solids
6:45-7:30ish 5 oz bottle of formula
Bedtime anywhere from 6-7:30 depending on how tired she is.

S is 12 months and we still feed her formula (or now, mostly WCM) on demand...roughly she has 6oz mid-morning, 6oz mid-afternoon and maybe a couple of oz before bed. It does vary depending on how busy she is and how much (or little) solids she eats. I used to worry a lot about how much milk she was getting, but now I just don't care so long as her weight gain is consistent and she's not dehydrated. She has different looking sippy cups for milk and water so she knows which one to pick up...so we just let her lead.