How often do you feed LO?

Mary0913 · December 2009

Our (old) pediatrician rec. that DD eat every 4 hours which used to work, but now I'm having a hard time fitting in a full bottle in between late afternoon/early evening and bedtime - she's either not hungry for the bottle or ends up being not hungry before bed. She's only getting about 22 oz. a day because of it and I think that it's starting to cause her to wake up hungry more at night. I think I'm going to start to try to get her on an every 3 hour schedule so that she gets 5 full bottles a day plus her two small meals.

That was a little longer than I thought it would be!

MrsBatty · December 2009

We feed on demand ... which usually ends up being around every 3.5 hours. Except at night ... *right now* she is sttn.

mommastemme · December 2009

We also feed on demand. And I'm still bfing so I just let DD nurse until she is full (or when she starts pulling away while latched on). But when I'm at work, I am told she eats 6-8oz/bottle and takes 3/day.

jonsdeedee · December 2009

I feed on demand usually every 2 1/2 - 3 hours. She eat 5-6 ozs. Total for the day 30-34 oz.

NDwife07 · December 2009

mommastemme:
We also feed on demand. And I'm still bfing so I just let DD nurse until she is full (or when she starts pulling away while latched on). But when I'm at work, I am told she eats 6-8oz/bottle and takes 3/day.

Exactly this.

mommastemme · December 2009

NDwife07:

mommastemme:
We also feed on demand. And I'm still bfing so I just let DD nurse until she is full (or when she starts pulling away while latched on). But when I'm at work, I am told she eats 6-8oz/bottle and takes 3/day.

Exactly this.

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**Gretchen** · December 2009

I feed her in the am, she gets 3 (today we're sending 4) bottles @ daycare, then I feed her twice at night. So used to be 6 and now might be 7 (although I think it might still be 6, just w/ more milk at daycare).

Have you tried giving her more milk at a time instead of more often?

egsquared · December 2009

We still feed on demand. DH stays home with LO and feeds her 5-6 oz every 2-3 hours. I BF when I get home - usually twice at night and once in the morning before I leave.

LoveEeyore · December 2009

I nurse the twins on demand- one goes about 2.5 hours, the other 3. In your position I would keep the same except maybe take the last feed and break it into 2 and add 50%. I know my babies cluster feed from abpout 5 on to get more calories to last the night (which they don't-lol-). So maybe if cluster feeding is natural, you can recreate it with what you feed her?

MrsNnr · December 2009

5oz every 3 hours. She is like clock work so we better have that bottle ready at the exact 3 hour mark! lol

grinsandgiggles · December 2009

He put himself on a schedule (minus the solids):

8am: 6oz Bottle

10am: 6oz Bottle

12pm: Fruit and Cereal or Veggie

2pm: 7oz Bottle

5pm: 7oz Bottle

6:30pm: Veggie

8pm: 7oz Bottle

STTN

So 5 bottles and 2 feedings of solids.

If he ate every 4 hours after every bottle he wouldn't STTN. He is happy and content. I'm not worried and neither is our pedi.

ETA: I have tried offering more to spread it out...this is all he will take, so I know he is full.

afg · December 2009

DD eats 6oz every 4hrs. Sometimes closer to 3.5hrs. I really let her call the shots.

Since we increased to 6oz, and she stretched out to 4hrs, she has dropped her early morning bottle, so I'm wondering if I should feed her closer to 3hrs again to make sure she gets 6bottles per day...we'll see.

Today will be something like this:

3am, 7:30am, 11:30am, 3pm, 6:30pm, 9pm