STMs : how many ounces?

ambuhsmilesx32 · November 2012

Hello ladies! As I'm standing here boiling bottles I was wondering how much your baby normally had for the first few months? I will be breast feeding/ pumping!

Also, how many bottles do you think you used a day? I have the advent 0+ up to 4pz to start with!

tia!

Cotton · November 2012

If your breastfeeding, you won't use any bottles for prob 2 months. By then it would still be <4oz. Actually, all we ever used were the short Medela ones that hold 5oz. We had about 4 in rotation. I pumped once/day and saved my milk to freeze into 4oz quantities. We gave them to the baby as needed, when I was away, prob 2-5/week for the duration of the year. This was for all my babies.

Brit242 · November 2012

Cotton:
If your breastfeeding, you won't use any bottles for prob 2 months. By then it would still be <4oz. Actually, all we ever used were the short Medela ones that hold 5oz. We had about 4 in rotation. I pumped once/day and saved my milk to freeze into 4oz quantities. We gave them to the baby as needed, when I was away, prob 2-5/week for the duration of the year. This was for all my babies.

Exactly what she said. I didn't use a bottle at all for at least 6 weeks since I was BFing. Then I usually saved my milk in 2-4oz increments and never once used more than that at a time. I only ever used the small Medela bottles that came with my pump.

ambuhsmilesx32 · November 2012

Well unfortunatley I won't be able to strictly breast feed for long. Ill be transitioning or at least trying between bottles and breast .

MelTwe · November 2012

Cotton:
If your breastfeeding, you won't use any bottles for prob 2 months. By then it would still be lt;4oz. Actually, all we ever used were the short Medela ones that hold 5oz. We had about 4 in rotation. I pumped once/day and saved my milk to freeze into 4oz quantities. We gave them to the baby as needed, when I was away, prob 25/week for the duration of the year. This was for all my babies.

This. We only used the 5 oz bottles. My neighbor just had a baby and she is drinking up to 4.5 oz pumped BM already at 4 weeks old.

Todd&Laura · November 2012

ambuhsmilesx32:
Well unfortunatley I won't be able to strictly breast feed for long. Ill be transitioning or at least trying between bottles and breast .

In this case, I would contact a lactation consultant. Also, I'd recommend not introducing a bottle for the six weeks. You need time to establish breastfeeding. Those are six weeks well spent.

stardust317 · November 2012

DD started with 2 oz feedings every 3 or so hours. Breastfeeding wasn't really our bag. We tried. I'm not totally sure when we increased her feedings to more than 4 oz. How many bottles depends on how much you want to spend washing. If you're breast feeding then you really won't need any. If breast feeding doesn't work out/you end up pumping, then you would need 8 or so in a 24 hour period initially, but you may wash some. A lot of it just depends on you and your baby.

nanabanana06 · November 2012

Rosie was FF. So she ate like a tank. At first it was 2oz every few hours, by a few weeks she was up to 4oz. The 5oz bottles they make should be fine.

MamaG1231 · November 2012

4 oz is what we did too. For a while. I dont think they need more and more breast milk as they get older - i think i read that somewhere. Its not the same as formula.

pitterpatter129 · November 2012

I bf until DS was 19 months old and sent pumped milk at daycare until 14 months. He never took more than 4 oz at a time. Make sure you are using very slow flow nipples. We never went up a nipple flow either - he used the Gerber slow flow the entire time.

I agree with pp's though - if you plan on exclusively breastfeeding, even if you want to pump for much of the time, you are are better off to actually breastfeed without giving bottles for awhile. Babies get out much more milk than a pump ever will, so you have to use the baby to establish a supply of milk before switching between feeding and pumping. If you want to EP, it can be done, but it's possible you will have a much lower supply and end up supplementing with formula. If you plan on just pumping or pumping before 6 weeks, you might want to do some research and ask on the bfing board what other people did to keep their supply up enough.

RissKay · November 2012

I didn't read all of the responses, so if this is a repost, sorry! (but at least you got it! )

This is something that several of my friends have verified was EXACTLY how it went for them (ok, maybe off by a week or a few days or something, but pretty much accurate across the board.) It doesn't really go deeply in to amounts and such, cause every baby is different, but it's good info to have on hand to help if you get stressed out!

https://www.thealphaparent.com/2011/12/timeline-of-breastfed-baby.html

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