Not drinking enough

[DIANNEKB]

Hi everyone,

Just wondering if anyone else's bubs has had the same thing... he is on formula has been from 3 months he is now 5 months old he has 4 bottles during the day of 150ml's but doesnt always drink them and at night he has 1 150ml bottle he eats solids once a day at the moment... he is about 70cm (tall boy) and weighs in at 8.72 kg's ... I feel he should drink more but he seems like he is not ever so interested at the moment ... Is this normal???

Di..xx

[MrsMiggins]

Nothing at all to worry abuot, so long as your bub is gaining an appropriate amount of weight for his size. He sure sounds like a big healthy boy!

Claire is 8 months and 67cm/8.8 kg. Much smaller than your lad, but still a very healthy weight for her size (takes after her shorty-pants daddy!)

She has always been a bits & pieces feeder. She'll take what she wants from a bottle & might go back to it later, might not. Means a lot of wasted formula, but I've decided there are better things in the world to be concerned about! :D

Claire went through stages where she might only have some out of 3 or 4 180mL bottles in a day. I was worried at the time, but she seemed OK.

Even now, it's not unusual for her to have only 60mL here & 40mL there.

And she's not even that big on solids!

[cwsmum]

My DD drinks 3 x 180ml bottles and 1 x 240ml bottle a day. The 240ml is her first one in the morning as she sleeps from 7pm til between 7am - 8am so she's starving when she wakes up. She has 2 solid feeds a day and depending on when she woke in the morning and the time she has a sleep thru the day, sometimes she has a solid feed then a bottle straight after and will only drink about 120mls.

I don't think it's a huge problem, but I do worry about her getting dehydrated in the summer as she doesn't drink water very often, even tho I offer it to her.

I read somewhere recently that bubs should drink 100mls for every kg they weigh...so my DD should be drinking at least 800mls a day, but she doesn't.

I haven't had DD weighed for a while but at 5.5mths, before she started solids, she was 8kg and 72cm. So drinking the small ammount she does hasn't affected her at all.

[DIANNEKB]

Thanks for your replies... Bubs is putting on good weight so I dont think I will worry too much ... he still wakes so much at night (TEETH :mad: ) and if he wakes to early for a bottle I can trick him with water as he is still half asleep... as he hates it any other time.

[Chickadee]

Bubs often get fussy about their feeding when their teeth are moving around and may take fewer bottles, or smaller and more frequent feeds. You may find that in a few weeks he gets his apetite back.