6oz breastmilk bottles?

Re: 6oz breastmilk bottles?

• eggmankate member

  November 2014

  I agree--I think that seems like a lot. I think that is what another mama on this board did is send smaller bottles to be fed more often and found that the last bottle never got used.

  
  

  
  

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• Abenedict2011 member

  November 2014

  I send 3 5oz bottles that she drinks between 2-3 hours. I also keep 1 extra 5 oz frozen which she does drink sometimes. I'd say try offering 4 oz every 2 hours and see if that helps. If not keep upping it. My LO is 5 mo.

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• vvvvvfee member

  November 2014

  3, 6-ounce bottles is too much IMO. DS never took more than 3, 4 1/2 to 5 oz bottles. average daily intake for a BF baby is 25 ounces (but of course that includes your nursing sessions at home). make sure your DCP is doing paced bottle feeding (you can print a PDF handout here with tips for bottle-feeding BF babies: https://kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/feeding-tools/bottle-feeding/)
  
  you can use the calculator here to calculate how much your LO should be getting while you are away: https://kellymom.com/bf/pumpingmoms/pumping/milkcalc
  
  if your LO will take a pacifier, they could try offering that first, or otherwise try to console her. sending more, smaller bottles is also a good idea. keep on using the lowest-flow nipples if your LO is not getting frustrated with them.
  
  

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• surpriseaddition member

  November 2014 edited November 2014

  I always sent three 5oz bottles right up until my LO was a year.  I would nurse at 7am so she was going in full, and then nurse her again right when I got home at 4pm since she was hungry by then (it had been several hours since her last bottle).  So, my LO was going through 15 oz in about 6 hours (a 5 oz  bottle every 2 hours).  If your LO is STTN, all 25 oz for the day have to be consumed during the daytime.  How long is LO at daycare?  I think 6 oz bottles are too big, but maybe the issue is more the 3 hours between bottles?   

  
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• mommatotwo2 member

  November 2014

  I think 6 oz bottles is way too big. If LO is at daycare for the average 10 hours, I'd probably send 16 oz total. 4 oz every 2.5 hours.  That's what I did, and I also instructed them that she shouldn't have her first bottle until at least 830 am (she was nursed at home at 630 am) and that if she'd not had the last bottle within a half hour of pickup, to hold off if possible. This usually meant she took 12 oz in her 10 hour daycare day. But didn't start on her first bottle until an hour and a half into the daycare day. My memory is fuzzy, but I think around 9 months she went to three five oz bottles and around 10 months wasn't finishing and was starting to eat a lot more solids, and we dropped to two five ounce bottles, one morning, one afternoon, and thats where we stayed until a year.
  
  The problem is- daycares are most familiar with the eating habits of a formula fed baby, which rapidly increases to 6-8 oz bottles every 3 hours. They might need some information about the changing composition of breastmilk as a baby grows and the fact that increased ounces are not generally needed until things change, like pp mentioned, when baby begins sttn, they may need bigger bottles at that point, but even then, I'd only go up by half ounce increments. 
  

  

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