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5 oz. bottles of formula?

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Does anyone give 5 ounces at a time? That's what the pediatrician is suggesting to decrease gas and get longer stretches of sleep at night. Currently LO (11 weeks old) gets seven 4 oz. bottles per day (2 of which are given overnight) and she wants us to try six 5 oz. bottles, giving only 1 overnight. But we make bottles using room temperature water, so should I make 6 oz. bottles, and then pour 1 oz. into a separate bottle in the fridge and then the next time add it to a 4 oz. bottle so we're not giving him an entire bottle of cold formula? Not sure if that will be too confusing for the daycare. So I was thinking maybe make up a 4 oz. bottle, keep it in the fridge during the day, and then with each new room temp 4 oz. bottle just add 1 oz. from fridge to it.

Anyway, just wondering what everyone else does...

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Re: 5 oz. bottles of formula?

  • ASmallWonderASmallWonder member
    You can make odd number of ounces by using half a scoop.  The water to powder ratio IS important but not at that amount so you can eyeball it pretty closely.
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  • RachaelM24RachaelM24 member
    we went through this same thing a few weeks ago...we alternate 4 oz vs 5oz each feeding because she doesn't ALWAYS take the whole 5 oz. but she will if we do every other feeding. We sure room temperature water as well that we just keep in a pitcher on the counter. We measure out the water and formula all in 4 oz then just add a half a scoop of formula for the 5oz feedings. We have been doing this for a couple weeks and our LO takes her last bottle at 7:30 (5oz) and sleeps until 4:30 where she takes another 5 oz and sleeps until her first morning feeding. 
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    imageelmoali:
    You can make odd number of ounces by using half a scoop. nbsp;The water to powder ratio IS important but not at that amount so you can eyeball it pretty closely.


    This....

    My DD let us know when she was ready to switch to 5 oz rather than 4, by still acting hungry after feeding. Before that, she wouldn't take more than 4 if we offered it. Babies know when they're hungry and when they're full, and they let you know.

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  • ClandestineXClandestineX member

    I give 3oz bottles because I breastfeed as well. I eye the half scoop. I do not think a pinch more or less is going to make or break the baby.

    What you can do which will be easier for the daycare is invest in a dispenser and measure out how much to give your little one and send that with bottles, I just bought one and I can say, I am kicking myself in the as$ for not buying it sooner.

     
     
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  • JenniD2JenniD2 member

    imageelmoali:
    You can make odd number of ounces by using half a scoop.  The water to powder ratio IS important but not at that amount so you can eyeball it pretty closely.

    This. You can make some formula ahead of time in a pitcher, but I find it more convenient to just mix the formal with 2 1/2 scoops.

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