How many feedings?

lildayzees · June 2011

How many times does your LO eat a day? Since DD now sleeps through the night, she's been eating 5 times (usually every 3 hours). Sometimes, though, she could go longer between feedings (I BF when she's hungry)...but I'm worried that only eating 4 tmes a day isn't enough. What do you think?

P.S. I don't know how many ounces per feeding she gets when she BFs but when I have to give her a bottle from my freezer stash, I give her 4 oz.

skio · June 2011

IMO, if she's STTN, she's getting enough! She'll wake up if she's hungry.

DD eats 5 times a day - usually the times are 8ish, noonish, 3ish, 6ish, 9ish. She goes 3-4 hours between feedings and I have no idea how much she gets, although she takes 5-6 ounces from a bottle during the random bottle feeding. She STTN 9-11 hours most nights.

erikaly nn · June 2011

That sounds about right. I pump for my daughter and she is eating 4 ounces every 3 to 4 hours during the day and seems perfectly fine with that.

Kered6799 · June 2011

DD sleeps throught the night and eats roughly every 3 hrs between 6 am and 9:30pm. for weekday sitter I send 3-4oz bottles and 1-2oz just in case and she has one bag of frozen BM. gaining consistantly...in the 50's percentiles for weight and length. one day last week at sitters she fell asleep before she had her 2nd bottle so she had #2 and 3 within 3-4 hours, then I think the growth spurt was taking place as she was waking up to eat in the middle of the night. I think you are okay but guess our LO are very similiar in eating patterns.

apricoty · June 2011

I'm sure this varies greatly from baby to baby and if she sleeps through the night, she definitely eats enough during the day ... Lucky you! Smile

Stella eats 5 times between 9am and 8pm and then 2-3 times after that. However, the night-time feeds are very short and done while we're both laying down.

Brit242 · June 2011

Jessica eats 5-6 times during the day and still wakes 2-3 times at night to eat too.

SecondTimeinMSU · June 2011

DS eats about 7-8 times still. Usually around 5am, 7:30am, 10:30am, 1:30pm, 4:30pm, 6:45pm and 9:00pm. During three days he is at daycare he'll eat more like every 2.5 hrs rather than 3 so he ends up squeezing in that 8th feeding. I would say she'll old enough to let you know if she is hungry though obviously you'll want to still keep an eye out to make sure she is gaining appropriately. DS might eat more often though since he came a month early so he needs to catch up more.

cgelfuso · June 2011

Samantha is 11 weeks and sleeps about 6-7 hrs at night and during the day she will eat every 2-3 hrs..although today she has been sleeping a lot..so I'm thinking a growth spurt is in order...when I pump she usually drinks 3oz and she always slowly finishes that last half ounce...I used to stress out about her eating more frequent but someone told me that "if shes hungry..she'll let you know.." and I've been following that for the last month or so...good luck!

Beccaboo0713 · June 2011

4-5 4oz bottles.

hispenguin · June 2011

5 feedings (BF and FF) approx 5 oz each feeding.

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