How many oz per feeding?

jenjen94 · April 2012

My husband and I have been going back and forth on this issue for the past week? Our son will be 4 months on May 9th, he gets 4-5 oz per feeding in the evenings and on weekends. During the week our sitter will sometimes up it to 6 oz, worried this is too much?? Curious about other babies out there similar in age.

megaloo27 · April 2012

My daughter gets about 4.5 to 5 ounces every three hours. She is just barely three months. She would eat more at one sitting but she has reflux so I can't giver her more or she will spit it back up.

besu-chan · April 2012

DD1 takes 6oz for most feedings. It should be fine as long as the total for the day is the right amount for LO's weight.

sweetky_06 · April 2012

DS is taking 6oz., 6x day. Piglet!

wychets · April 2012

DD is 4 months and drinks 6oz per feeding.

She drinks 1 cereal bottle before Daycare

She has 3 bottles while at Daycare

And lastly drinks another cereal bottle before bed

So Roughly 30oz a day with 2 cereal bottles

rnkrs10 · April 2012

My son is 3 months and drinks 6 oz every 3 hrs. He usually takes a total of 30 to 36 oz in a day.

laurenac · April 2012

DS takes 5 bottles a day - usually about 6oz. each. Sometimes he leaves .5 oz., but most times he drinks all 6oz. and is happy.

bhead81 · April 2012

With B's reflux we can't do more than 4-5 oz of thickened formula at a time every 2-3 hours for a total of 32-36 oz day. I wish we could do 5-6 oz every 3-4 hours but I would rather feed more often and keep it down and have less reflux issues than deal with his reflux pain any day!

bigbear · April 2012

My DD takes 5-6 oz every 4 hrs or so.

The pediatritian told us that we should go by her demand. She will tell us if she needs more of she's had enough. And sometimes (not very often though) she will only take 3oz and that would be it. I wouldn't worry about it.