Questions for bottle feeders

marionravenwood · March 2013

Two questions for the bottle feeders on the board:

1. How do you know LO is full? I've been reading a lot about how bottle fed babies are more prone to being overweight because their parents inadvertently over feed them. Maybe that just made me paranoid, but I feel like DD is hard to read. For example, she usually eats 100ml per bottle, but tonight both of her mid-night bottles she only took 60 before going milk drunk catatonic. I was torn on whether I should rouse her and try to get more in her or do what the books say and just follow her cues and not stuff her.

2. Does your LO cough a lot? Mine will start coughing and it seems like she is gasping for air. It's almost like the milk went down the wrong way. Just curious if this is normal. She aspirated the first night home from the hospital so I'm a little paranoid about it.

DublinMama · March 2013

My son is a hand gnawer when he is hungry. So I give him four ounces right now (he's 7 weeks), and I usually know he is done when he hands stay away from his mouth when I go to burp. All of his movements calm down as he gets full. His arms stop flailin

ally1218 · March 2013

DS usually drinks 4 ounces at a time, I try to stop at every ounce to burp him to help with gas and figure out if he wants more. My LO is always excited to eat so it's hard to tell if he's full while eating, unless he pushes the bottle away. After burping

kelly321 · March 2013

I just feed until she doesn't drink any more. She drinks up to 100ml if she's really hungry, and if she stops at 60 and falls asleep, then after burping her I just hang out for a couple minutes to see if she wakes up and starts crying again because she's

artroyer · March 2013

DD will either fall asleep or push the nipple out with her tongue. I never try to force it, but if she's still awake I'll wait aminute and offer it again. She always let's me know if she wants more. We got a paper at the hospital that said to feed a bottl

SammieJ1113 · March 2013

The bottles I make for LO are 4oz. I wait until she's down to 1-1.5 oz left then burp her. If she wakes up and cries then ill give her the rest. Sometimes she does overeat but we'll know right away because she'll throw up the extra.

2moms2b · March 2013

We make 4oz bottles. Our big man will finish them but on occasion he will push it out of his mouth or turn his head side to side when I try to give it back. Little man is a bit more inconsistent so we basically offer it until he won't take it. He general

Rynleigh · March 2013

Our boys stop eating when they are full. So did our girls. If you aren't on mobile and can see my sig pictures, neither of my almost exclusively bottle fed, formula supplemented, older children (10 and 6) are even remotely close to being overweight LOL

Saki67 · March 2013

kelly321:
I just feed until she doesn't drink any more. She drinks up to 100ml if she's really hungry, and if she stops at 60

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