How often do you feed you bubba?

[Chel]

I was looking online and I found something that said that you should BF babies under 3 months 10-12 times a day. Which personally I thoughtwas a bit crazy, but also weird, because I was feeding (and still am) about 8 times a day, and being told I'm feeding him too often -that I SHOULD feed him 5-6 times a day?

Frankly I dont care what I SHOULD be doing, I demand feed and when I kept a record once for a full fortnight I discovered that no matter when he fed or seemingly how frequently he fed, it was always 8 times a day, every single day, so I figure that perfect for his individual needs.

I'm just wondering what other mothers do with their babies and a what age more out of curiosity han anything else.

 

[Whisper]

It was until a week ago between 6-8 times a day, but we have since dropped her lunch time and dinner time feed, so we are down to 6x a day.

I think when Amelia was under 3mnths i did feed her that many times it was 2hourly during the day and 3/4hourly at night.....

 

[Ema]

Jacob does the following

6.30am 3oz bottle
9.30 breakfast and juice
10ish i try asnother bottle sometimes he takes it othertimes he dont but will only takle 3oz
12.30 lunch and juice
3.30 3-4oz bottle depending how he feels
5.30 tea
7.30 4oz bottle
then i dream feed him 3oz at 9.30 and thats it xxx

 

[freckleonear]

When Aaron was that age I probably was feeding him 10-12 times as he wouldn't go longer than 2 hours between feeds day or night. By the time he was 6 months old we were probably down to 8 feeds per day. To be honest I never actually counted!

Don't listen to people telling you how often to feed, as you said your baby knows what he needs. Feeding more often helps to maintain a good milk supply anyway! 5-6 time per day sounds very low to me.

 

[Blob]

Tabs has already had 3 feeds since 7am... she is one chubbby baby

 

[Poppeteer]

12-14 times a day!!!


Think my boob is being used as a dummy though cos sometimes she'll only be on it for a minute or so! But she's putting on nearly a pound a week which i'm happy about as she was a bit on the small side!

 

[ryder]

Jasmine is ff and still has 6-8 bottles, plus her rice cereal.

 

[Rachiebaby24]

Jacob does the following

6.30am 3oz bottle
9.30 breakfast and juice
10ish i try asnother bottle sometimes he takes it othertimes he dont but will only takle 3oz
12.30 lunch and juice
3.30 3-4oz bottle depending how he feels
5.30 tea
7.30 4oz bottle
then i dream feed him 3oz at 9.30 and thats it xxx

Maley has roughly the same but no dream feed (she has her last bottle at 9pm) and her bottles are 7oz!

 

[MaryJ]

I really don't keep track of it that well.

DH says he has between 2-3 7 oz. bottles while I'm at work. Then he has 2-3 more when I get home and a jar of baby food before he goes to bed. Before we started on the jar of baby food he had probably 2 more bottles a day. I think that sounds about right.

 

[avistar]

Ashlyn eats usually starting around 4:30 in the morning. We go around 3 hours from there. So that is 7 feedings in a whole day. Sometimes she goes longer than 3 hours. I have stopped feeding her in the middle of the night so that eliminated 1 feeding.

She prob eats about 4-5 oz per feeding but it is hard to tell when your bfing. She will be starting bottles exclusively in the late morning and middle of the day feedings when I go back to work....so we shall see how much she eats. But when we have given her a bottle of bm in the middle of the day, she eats 4 oz and seems satisfied. So depending on how much milk your producing and what your baby is used to eating each feeding I am guessing depends on how often they feed. I know some babies eat only 2 ozs here and there and so they eat more frequently....

 

[Blah11]

I BF amelie about 8 times a day. It's 3pm almost and we've been awake since 6.30am and done only 4 feeds so far. Amelie lets me know when shes hungry so I tend not to worry

 

[sam#3]

Harry feeds every 3 hours between 6am-10pm and we have just last night stopped the night feeds but at that age he fed every 2 hours day and night!!!!

 

[danni2609]

4oz every 3-4 hrs

 

[alice&bump]

i've got a 4 month old that feeds atleast that much and has 3 meals a day!!!!

 

[carries]

Oscar feeds about every two hours in the day so thats about 6 feeds and then has a 7oz bottle at bedtime. He usually wakes for one feed in the night so that would make 7 feeds from me and one bottle (although the little monkey is mixing it up recently and has started waking about 3 times int he night...me need sleep!!!!)