How many ounces of milk?

skibunny59

Hi Ladies,

 How many ounces of milk is your LO drinking?  DD is still breastfeeding and has been drinking 6-8 ounces of breastmilk in bottles while I'm at work since she turned 9 months.  She is away from more for about 7 1/2 hours a day while I'm at work.

We usually send pumped breatmilk and whole milk.  My mom usually watches her while I'm at work but last week and this week she was with my MIL for one day of the week.  Anyway, both times I sent 3 ounces of breatmilk and 5 ounces of whole milk and my MIL said that it wasn't enough.  I should have asked her if DD really wanted more or if SHE, meaning MIL, didn't think it was enough.  It seems to be enough when I leave her with my mom.

She eats solids 3 times a day and is a great eater.  We feed her a lot of veggies, meats, cheese, eggs, yogurt, fruit, etc.  And she still nurses a TON when we're together.  I would say she nurses about 5 times a day.  

I just want to make sure she's getting all of the nutrition we need.  Oh and I asked my pedi about this at her 12 month visit when we were starting to think about introducing whole milk and he was very lax about it.  He was kind of like "Well, just offer her some in a bottle and see how much she'll drink."  He never mentioned how much she should be drinking.

She's 14 months if that matters.

Thanks Ladies and sorry it was so long. 

secretsout

I think that he gets about 16oz a day.  Usually, he gets a cup in the morning, and a cup after dinner/before bed.  Sometimes a little milk at lunch time or snack time, but during the day I mostly give him water.  He also gets some cheese or yogurt most days.  The pediatrican said that 16-24 oz is plenty of milk because you don't want them to fill up on that and miss out on other nutrients.

AudreyB113

As of right now DS is drinking about 15oz of milk a day - the rest is water in a sippy. He gets milk in the morning, a little around lunch, and at bedtime.

Bella61811

My DD drinks around 10-12oz of milk per day. She gets some with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. She gets water with snacks.

blushingbride_08

My LO gets about 2 oz of wcm and sometimes not that. He does get 4oz of yogurt and 4 oz of milk with cereal and sometimes a slice of cheese. He nurses 3 times during the day and sometimes up to 4 times at night. 

blu-eyedwife

kbruington:

I think people have the idea that when you transition to WCM, you give as much as you did with BM or formula and that's not the case, unless this is what a pedi recommended.

This.  If you're nursing 5 times a day, then any milk you give her is pretty much bonus.  At this age milk isn't supposed to replace a feeding, it's an addition to everything else she's eating.

At 14 months, my guy was only nursing twice a day, and I have no idea how much milk he was drinking.  He had a half-gallon of milk at daycare they used to fill his cup at milk and snack, but I don't know how much he was actually drinking. At most it would have been 10-12 oz.

Currently (19 months) he drinks more milk, but he only nurses once a day.  He has a strawcup of milk at breakfast, I send 9oz in with him during the day, and sometimes he has some with dinner.  I treat it like any other food, so if he asks for it with a meal, I give him some.

lageorgiapaperie

DS is 18 months and just recently started to like drinking milk, he now drinks about 12oz a day. Before it was a struggle to get him to drink even 8 oz a day. 

BiscuitEater21

My pedi said that LO should get no more than 24 ounces of milk and formula a day. 

 We had stopped formula completely for not longer than a week, because LO got so constipated. Now he only has a 9oz bottle of whole milk a day and his other bottles are still formula. Sometimes I'll give him another small bottle of whole milk, because he does seem to like it. But it is the only thing in his diet really that could be backing him up...

He probably only has 18 to 20 ounces of formula and milk a day though. Mostly still purees (he LOVES them in the pouches!!) and cereal, and lots of bites of whatever mom and dad are eating (: Since his last bad back-up, he has been pooping everyday again and sometimes twice!