5m old: how many oz's?

sarbieb

How many oz in each bottle do you give your 5m old? Also are they EBF? My daughter is and will be starting daycare when I return to work. Trying to figure out how many oz she will take in each bottle - I'm thinking 6oz?? TIA!

smash1228

She doesn't get many bottles right now but last weekend she got a few. She took 5oz in each of them.

emmy236

Probably 5. 6 is a lot for breast milk and it's really easy to over feed a breast fed baby with a bottle. Make sure daycare knows how feed her correctly. I think kellymom has instructions you can print out. I had that issue when I returned to work. My mom watches DS and she said other babies his age ate 6-8 ounces but that was formula and I had to show her how BM is different. Now everyone is on the same page and happy.

Dstevens429

My 5 month old drinks 4 oz's every 3 hours at DC.   DC always wants to increase it because they are so used to FF babies but I continue to tell them no because he is perfectly satisfied for 3 + hours on only 4 oz's.   I agree with Emmy make sure they know how to feed EBF babies.

edit:  He also takes 2 oz of fruit in the AM after his first bottle. We tried cereal but he was refusing BM so I switched to fruit which is lighter for his tummy

MrsWindyCity

5 oz. very 3 hours at daycare. He's BF.

pinottoparenthood

Our son is EBF. He is with the nanny from 8 am until 3 pm and drinks three 4 oz bottles and then a little one oz bottle to tide him over. If he is having a bottle with us, it is 4-4.5 oz. sometimes if it is right before bed, he'll want a little more and eat 5-5.5 oz. I would start a little smaller and work your way up. Send an extra bottle or a bag of frozen milk at first, just in case, as you are adjusting how much LO drinks. You'll figure it out quickly!

Eta: our guy is a big eater and a chunker, 17 lbs at 5 months.

mslynn2012

5-6 oz. he is EBF. 5 months yesterday and about 16 pounds.

andyyougoonie

DD2 is EBF and only takes 4 oz bottles, every 2-3 hours.  DD1 was the same - she never took more than 4 ozs of BM at a time.

kristinyoung111

My LO won't take more than 4 oz of breastmilk at a time either, and eats every 2 - 3 hours. She is EBF. Even when she is going through a growth spurt, she won't take more than 4 oz at a time, she just wants more sooner than normal.

BigPoppa22

For you two whose LO only take 4 oz, ever, how many oz total per day?

Ridgebackmom

I nurse him before I leave for work in am @ 7:30, then he'll take 2oz, 2 hours later, then 4 oz, 2-3 hours after that and then eats every 2-3 hrs and 3-4 oz. until I get home 5 or 6p. He probably takes 4 bottles all day. This is subject to change

HarleyKins

Ours will be 5mo. On Friday. She takes about6oz about every 3-4 hours.

LuckDragon78

My daughter is almost 5 months and takes about 4oz every 3 hours.

FarmingBride

She gets all bm.  She nurses once in the am before we leave for work/daycare (7/7:30am).  Then she will get another bottle of bm between 10:30-11:30.  Then she will have another bottle around 2:30-3:30pm.  The two bottles she gets at daycare are 6 oz each.  Then she will nurse once or twice more when we get home and before bed. 

Schell2013

My LO is EBF most of the time, but when she does get a bottle of pumped stuff she drinks 5 oz and seems satisfied with that.

Lolalipsy

I EBF but because I run low at bed time which irritates my LO I give her a 3-4oz bottle of frozen BM from my stash.

I also let her nurse so I'm assuming it works out at about 5-5.5 ounces.

homebird

He is EBF. When I'm at work, he gets 4-5 oz of pumped milk.

opheliainwaders

BigPoppa22 said:

For you two whose LO only take 4 oz, ever, how many oz total per day?

DD eats about 10oz while I'm gone (She's with a babysitter from 9-6, but I nurse her at lunch), so she probably eats about 13-14oz during the course of a typical work day? She eats every 2-3 hours, 3-4oz each time. She nurses a lot in the mornings and evenings, and 1-2x overnight (which for her is 8pm-7am). If I had to guess, I'd say she eats about 28oz per 24 hour day?