Bottlefed babies-April 08-How much?

[Pinkarella]

Hi there, I was wondering how much other bubbas around 3 months old are drinking. Evie is 11 weeks and since she was around 8 weeks she takes 120ml, sometimes she drinks only 90ml and in rare occasions she drinks 150ml. But in the back of the formula tin says that up to 2 months is 150ml and up to 4 months 180ml, so how much are other babies having at this age?
Ah, she drinks roughly every 4 hours x 5 bottles a days.

[hailsntwang]

Hi

Ryder turns 3 months later on this week and since he was 8 weeks old he has been drinking 220ml with each bottle.

Approx 4 - 5 bottles a day.

A midwife told me that the instructions on the tin is only a guideline and that it is impossible to over feed a baby. They don't take into account growth rates, weight any of that sort of stuff.

Some babies need more then others.

Hope that helps

[Pinkarella]

May I also ask which bottles and teat size are you using? Sometimes I wonder if the teat is too slow and she gets bored but when i tried a bigger size the milk dribble from the sides of her mouth :o. I use Avent bottles and size 2 teat. Thanks

[QTB]

Harlan is 9wks now (was due in april)

hes having a breastfeed then bottle due to supply issues. he will drink 100-150mls of formula after a breastfeed! hes a piggy! usually its around the 100 mark, but its slowly dropping as my supply is increasing...

we use happy baby bottles with a medium flow teat. i also have normal bottles with a slow flow teat and he hates it, its not fast enough, but when the other bottles arent sterilised and i have to use them he gets frustrated and stops drinking at around 70ml.

[LilMrsC]

Charlotte has just gone up to 180mls 5 times a day. Sometimes only 4 times a day. She is 16 weeks tomorrow. We use Avent bottles with teat 3. Oh and we use s26 Gold.

[Love is all you need]

Our Evie (great name :thumbsup:) is nearly 15 weeks and she was drinking 250mLs 5 - 6 times a day on Heinz but we have switched her to SMA make by the people who make S26 (thanks to Cora :D) and she now drinks 180mLs 4 - 5 times a day...

We use Avent bottles too, we have a mixture of 3 teats, 2 teats and variable teats (lol we haven't gotten around to get all 3 teats yet - damn money) we find the two teats are way too slow yet she doesn't mind them during the day and also if she is having teething pain, she loves the 3 teats especially at bed time......

Evie also does the dribble out the side of the mouth too, I don't think it's necessarily the teat as such but they just aren't interested so I usually take the bottle out and in 10 -15 minutes she wants more and none comes out the mouth, but it can take a couple of days to adjust to a new teat flow!

[sillysideup]

Everyone is so different hey! Georgie is 12 weeks old today (OMG it goes so fast) and is on Nan formula - having between 150 -180mls 4 - 5 times a day (plus still a 3am feed) Sometimes she'll only have 120mls - just depends on her. I'll looking forward to her having more so we can drop the night time feed.:yes:

[NZMEL]

Wow I'm finding this very interesting.....

Jordyn turned 3months last Thursday, she is on Heinz Gold/Avent 2teats, (about to change to 3 teats - shopping tomorrow!) - and she still only drinks 100-120mls per feed, on the odd occasion she will do the full 150mls.

She has about 5 feeds a day.

[jriley]

blake is 3 and a half months he feeds at 8 12 4 8 and drinks 240 and has done for about a month and a half he goes to sleep about 8 or 9 and sleeps till about 8 or 9 and has a big sleep after his 12 bottle then just cat naps between