How much formula?

03-21-2006, 07:08 PM

Up until recently, I was BFing and giving one bottle of formula a day. Claire would take 5 or 6 oz. of formula at a time. I recently started giving all formula and she will drink the whole bottle and then act like she wants more! So I tried giving her 8 oz. and the same thing happened. I tried giving her the pacifier afterwards and she just spits it out! She's 17 or 18 pounds and eats 4 times a day. How much do you think I should be feeding her?

Kris · 03-21-2006, 08:30 PM

When you say she eats 4 times a day.... do you mean in total? Just bottles? Or bottles and food?

Ian pretty much eats whenever he's hungry. I do 3 "solids" meals a day, and he gets as many bottles as he seems to need. He usually takes 6-8 ounces at a feeding, and usually has 4-6 bottles a day, and solid food 3 times a day. He's always hungry.

I guess you have to somehow figure out whether or not she's truly hungry by offering her food/bottle more often. Some kids just need to eat more frequently, but smaller portions. Maybe adding another bottle or two during the day would help. I dunno.

03-21-2006, 08:49 PM

I've been giving her 4 bottles a day & 2 of those times, she's also getting solid food.

Her schedule/routine has been changing lately...she used to go to bed at 8/8:30 but recently started going at 6. We thought that might be too early so we encouraged her to take a nap around 5/5:30 and then put her to bed around 7:30. Well, tonight, I put her in her crib (I think it was around 6:00 but I actually wasn't looking at the clock). I was thinking it was a nap but now I think she may be down for the night....and the last time she ate was at 3:00

(she had an 8 oz. bottle and solid food - about 24oz. of formula and 2 solid food meals today). I don't know if I should wake her up to feed her or not? Maybe I'll be up in the night feeding her. This is all new to me since I really had no idea how much BM she was eating....

Pautzie · 03-21-2006, 09:49 PM

Carter is getting about three 7 oz bottles and sometimes a 4 oz bottle at night. He is also getting 3 meals a day. This is in addition to the 3 - 4 times he nurses a day.

Carter is a little chunker though. At 7 months he is a very healthy 21 pounds. He is one of the biggest in his nursery class. :) Maybe we shouldn't be feeding him so much, but the ped said to feed him until he is full. He would keep eating forever if we did that. :)

Mommy2Meghan-Caleb · 03-21-2006, 11:09 PM

Caleb eats ALL the time. He nurses every 2-3hrs when he's with me and at daycare takes a 5oz bottle every 2 hours. We have also started solids once a day and a snack of fruit and puffs as well. Maybe she just needs to eat smaller amounts more frequently?

Suzanne

jillian1527 · 03-22-2006, 10:03 AM

I cant really say since we feed on demand. I try to give Ty 3 solid meals but he ends up snacking on solids as well as bottles. Some days he will eat 6 or so 6 oz bottles a day (not including nights) and others he may eat 6 oz all together during the day.
Maybe shes going through a growth spurt?