How much BM does/did you 4.5-5 month old drink ever 3 hours?

Re: How much BM does/did you 4.5-5 month old drink ever 3 hours?

• TheAnalyticalMommy member

  July 2014

  Thanks for the replies and for catching my error! I can't seem to figure out how to fix it.

  
  

  He is in daycare from about 8 to 5:30 or so and has a 4.5oz  bottle 3 times a day plus solids in between bottle two and three.

  
  

  He's a fairly big boy too... people always think he's a month or two older than he is bc of his size.

  Rachel (a.k.a. The Analytical Mommy.com and @analyticalmommy on IG)
  I'm just trying to make sense of things :-) 
  

  Report0 Reply
• Loading the player...
• opheliainwaders member

  July 2014 edited July 2014

  DD never drank more than about 3.5oz at a time, but she also ate every 2-2.5 hours at that point. Is there a reason they are waiting 3 hours? I will also add that even at 13m, she is kind of a lanky kid who is more of a snacker than a real meal-eater (she tends to eat one "big" meal a day, and then small stuff), so my experience probably isn't totally comparable
  
  (ETA - at this point, she was eating about 12oz/day while with the babysitter - which for us was 4 3oz bottles).
  

  

  Report0 Reply
• Designermomma member

  July 2014

  Since we put him in DC @ 3 mn LO drinks 4 oz every 2-3 hours. Sometimes my mom over fills the bottles to about 5 oz and sometimes he drinks it all and sometimes wastes an oz.

  

  Report0 Reply
• TheAnalyticalMommy member

  July 2014

  Thanks everyone! I'm going to see if he'll be content going back to 4.5 in about a week. Maybe he's just in a growth spurt. He's a generally hungry baby. Hopefully I can keep me supply up enough to get 15 oz a day... it seems to hover between 15 and 18 oz. thanks!

  Rachel (a.k.a. The Analytical Mommy.com and @analyticalmommy on IG)
  I'm just trying to make sense of things :-) 
  

  Report0 Reply
• TheAnalyticalMommy member

  July 2014

  Thanks for all the feedback everyone! I've increased to 5 oz and the daycare says he's much happier. He's the kind of baby that lets you know the minute he feels hungry using a really high pitched squeel that sounds like a siren... so it's pretty easy to know when he's hungry and when he's happy

  
  

  My oversupply seems to be regulating so between his increase and my decrease, i'm not able to put away any or much in the freezer anymore. That scares me a bit but hopefully i'll level out at the amount he needs!

  Rachel (a.k.a. The Analytical Mommy.com and @analyticalmommy on IG)
  I'm just trying to make sense of things :-) 
  

  Report1 Reply