Does your bat by take different amounts througout the day?

[pootle33]

Hi

Quick question and your advice needed please. My LO is 4 weeks old today although he is quite a big baby as 9lbs 11oz when he was born!! He was BF first two weeks but been on SMA Gold exclusively for the last 2 weeks. What I wondered is whether your baby takes different amounts of formula during the day? My LO takes anything from between 2oz to 6oz (or more sometimes). When he takes the smaller amounts he tends to want fed more frequently (although not all the time). I've tried to get him to take more but he point blank refuses sometimes which can be frustrating as he tends to wake an hour or so later and want a bit more! Does anyone else LO do this or is it just me? Is it just a case of baby led feeding and I shouldn't worry too much about it?

Thanks for any advice you have - he's my first so have no experience to go on!!!

 

[pootle33]

....obviously I meant "baby" and not "batby"!!!

 

[faille]

Demand feeding is usually reccomended to start with.. But I can understand why you'd get fed up with not knowing when and how much he wants.

Are you sure it's definately that he's had enough when he only takes small amounts?

It seems I always go on about wind in this forum, but honestly, when Violet has a trapped burp, she'll refuse anymore of her bottle and it's so easy to just assume she's finished. Luckily we know her cues now so we know it's a burp that's stopping her take more and not that she's full.. she's got other cues for that lol

 

[aimee-lou]

Earl takes different amounts during the day...but he's a gannet and will never take less than 3.5 oz. He too was a big baby (9lb6) and I was told that bigger babies eat more, quicker - and they weren't kidding. He was up to 5oz per feed by 2 weeks!! Sometimes he will take 6-7oz in one go but I have found that if he has had a small meal, then wakes up a little bit later, he often just needs a drink (his soft spot goes in) so I'll give him 1/2 an oz of water and he'll drop back off or play for a bit then be happy to take a bigger feed next time.

Don't forget the growth spurts (Earl is having one long one since he was born it would seem! lol) which occur at about 4 weeks which may be making him want more food too!

 

[jennie_78]

yeah mine takes different amounts at feeds.
She was 5lb 13 at birth so she was quite small, shes 3 weeks now and usually takes between 3 and 4 oz.
At some feeds she though shes only taken about 1 - 2oz, so an hour or so later she will want fed again.

 

[history_girls]

Your LO sounds just like mine! She is also 4 weeks today and was born weighing 8lb 14oz and was breast fed for the first two weeks before moving to formula. We started her on SMA gold (the one husband picked up at random at 5am in Tescos after an all night bf marathon) but we moved her to cow and gate in an attempt to make her poo! Anyway, she generally has 4 oz but will leave 1/2 oz on average but in the last few days she has taken to only have half a bottle at lunchtime and draining her night feeds completely.

Sometimes i don't believe she has finished so put her down and within 10 minutes she is screaming for the rest. I tend to feed her when hungry but sometimes she will go two hours although more like 3.5 to 4 hours now.

Hope this helps I also am new at this so playing it by ear!

 

[purple_socks]

Kian has always (and still does) done different amounts throughout the day. And no two days r the same

at abt 4 weeks i used to offer 4oz each time and he's have any amount from 2 oz to the full amount. Each time he got to the oint where he'd finish most of his bottles i'd up the amount i offered. He now has 7oz bottles but he usually has between 4-6 oz each bottle.

Kian also has non-hungry days where he has hardly anything then he seems to make up 4 it the next day by drinking loads

I know it feels really confusing to FOD but u start getting used to it and these days i find it easier than bothering with any kind of routine