Eating/Feeding ?

cedenton · November 2012

Okay, so now that DS is getting more formula than BM (and he'll be completely FF by tomorrow or Saturday) he's getting more full and wanting to go longer between feedings.

Yesterday he didn't want to finish his mid-afternoon bottle. I woke him up at 1am like instructed by pedi (because of slow weight gain) to eat last night (he'd been asleep for 4.5 hours) and when I got him up at 6:10ish he didn't want to eat. He finally did but spit a lot up.

He's getting extra concentrated formula (24 cal. per oz) and if the rule of thumb is 20 cal per oz of BM and he was getting 3 BM feedings (one nursing session so I think it was less than his bottles of 5oz), it seems like he wouldn't be down many calories if he dropped a feeding, which is what he seems to want to do.

Is anyone else's baby down to 5 feedings? I'm not going to do anything until I talk to the pedi on Monday, but he might do it himself if he refuses to eat.

Tayturtle · November 2012

My LO eats 5 times a day. She is very content with this, I've tried feeding her more and she wants nothing to do with it. She's been eating 5 times a day for a while now, usually eats about 5 oz per feeding.