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Eating less?

BrittlamarcheBrittlamarche member
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Hey mamas! My son is 3 months old and was eating about 4.5 oz's every 2 hours or so. He gets bottles while I am at work and then I breast feed when home. Well the last week or so he seems to be eating less during the day. He nurses less and he only takes 1-2 oz's from the bottle every couple of hours. He does this between about 11 am to 4 pm. Then he picks it up a little bit into the evening. He is still having wet and dirty diapers and is happy so that's a good thing. He also weighs 18lbs so he isn't lacking there but I just want to make sure this is a normal thing that he will eat less. I also have bags upon bags of frozen and refrigerated milk in 4.5 ozs so if he is only taking the 2 ozs can we reheat the remaining for the next feed? How many times can you heat breast milk? Thanks!!
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Re: Eating less?

  • PankersPankers member
    edited June 2014
    Mine too. Eva's 15 weeks today. She's started to just eat between 1-2 oz on the breast (doing weighed feedings), the past few days and she's napping in the day which she never used to do. We still have wet diapers but I'm starting to worry as LO is only 8lbs (she was 4lbs 13iz at birth). I'm trying to supplement her with 1oz on the low feeds with the SNS but she's not interested.

    Sorry, that's no help to you.


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  • BrittlamarcheBrittlamarche member
    Typically all of the pumped milk he gets is straight from the fridge so it is divide-able and we can pour a little and heat just what we need. Just wondering about using the frozen stuff but that's not very often. If this is how he is going to be now then I will have a lot of milk to donate when we are done. :)
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  • BrittlamarcheBrittlamarche member
    Well I called the pediatrician and they want to see him. Today got a little worse. He nursed a little early this morning and then only had 1 oz at 9 am and then 1 oz at noon. They want to weigh him to make sure he isn't loosing weight. Thankfully he is still happy but starting to get concerned about him.
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