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how much to feed
6 months ago  ::  Dec 06, 2011 - 12:32PM #1
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My son is 3 months...I breastfeed when I am home and at daycare he gets BM via bottle.  Just curious on when each person up'd the oz of milk.  I see formula fed babies on 6-8oz already and he only eats 4oz every 4hrs.  He seems satisfied and doesn't get fussy until the 4 hr mark.  I know when I pump that I get 4oz exactly or a bit over.  I heard that the qty of BM doesn't change but the quality does...Is this true?  When he starts eating 6-8oz how do I get myself to make that much?  I am terrified that I will not be able to keep up a freezer stash for him.  I have about 1-1/2 to 2 wks of back up stash in freezer.
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6 months ago  ::  Dec 06, 2011 - 4:11PM #2
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I think that he is doing just fine. My DD is 9 months and she pigs out in the morning, but now that she is getting solids if she needs a bottle it is really only around 4 ozs, maybe 6 if she is really hungry, especially since she gets solids now. When she was around your baby's age she'd only drink about a 3 oz bottle when she took one, and I'd normally only feed her every 3 hours, plus she was sleeping through the night already too. Now she definitely needs more milk each time but she is also getting more solids too and needs milk less often, so she is still really eating about the same amount of milk now as she did 6 months ago.


I think a big part of the reason that she didn't need as much as often is because I had really fatty milk. I don't pump as much now and didn't really have a reason too, but when I did and the milk would thaw out it was literally 1 oz of cream for every 3 oz of milk. Now my milk is a lot thinner, but this won't start to happen until your baby is starting solids.

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