How much is your 5 month old eating

steelerbaby29 · November 2013

My LO is 5 months and typical eats 6 ounces about every 3-3.5 hours. I feed him formula mixed with pumped breast milk. The past couple days he has been ready for a bottle at the 2 hour mark. I decided to give him 7 ounces at each feeding today and he was going back to wanting to eat after 3 hours. He is in the process of teething and has been having some diarrhea from it. I figured he must be wanting to eat more due to having 2 poopy diapers a day right now, and I know a 6 month growth spurt is coming. Just thought I would see how much other babies are eating around this age.

trudibell · November 2013

LO gets at least a 6 ounce bottle of formula every 3 hours, except at night when he usually just has one overnight feed (sometimes 2, but that's ok).

He ranges from around 30-40 oz per day. I try to keep it at 32 oz or so, but sometimes he's ravenous and just wants to keep going. He's not overweight maybe he just has a fast metabolism? The pedi said sometimes to top him off with water, but that doesn't really sound right to me.

carrotcake06 · November 2013

Mine eat 6x a day. They're BF, so ounces will differ as PP mentioned. When I'm at work, they get bottles and those are about 4oz but I know they get more first thing when they nurse and less in the evening bc that's what my supply is like.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say they eat about 24oz each per day.

My oldest dropped a feeding around 7mo, another around 8mo, and was down to 4x a day by 9mo. I know by 9mo, his BM bottles were around 5-6oz.