too much?

[MrsEngland]

My little girl is 16 weeks today and up until a week ago was taking 4oz every 3 hours and going for a 6-7 hour stretch in the night so averaging roughly 28-32oz a day of milk.

A week ago we up'ed the teat size and she started taking 6oz a feed and going 5 hours between with a 7-8 hour stretch at night so taking about 32-35oz of milk.

Problem is she's now wanting feeding every 3 hours again but still wants 5-6oz a time and she's not going the long stretch at night so its like 56oz of milk a day!? Surely that's way too much?!


I dunno what to do!

 

[mommysbaby]

56 is surely a lot. Drs say it should never be more than 40oz/day. U can talk To ur dr and confirm. They might tell u to start solids.

 

[MrsEngland]

That's what I thought, having said that the last bottle I gave her she only took 2oz I wonder if its coz she's not feeling well (we all have colds) guess we'll see how she goes with the next bottle and go from there!

I planned to start introducing solids soon anyway (17 weeks) so maybe that will help but will speak to my doc.

Thanks.

 

[b4baby]

Not sure if its the same as my DD is fed breast milk but she used to feed every 3 hours 4-5oz and then would go 9 hours at night with one feed somewhere in the middle. The we tried to up the feed amount during the day so she ate at 8, 11, 2, 5, 8 and then went down for the night. It took about a week to get her into this routine and we were religious in waking her up at 8 every morning even if she didnt wake up herself. She now feeds slightly different to these times and now takes between 32-36oz a day.

 

[MrsEngland]

I think she must of just been poorly coz she's gone back to 6oz every 5 hours and going for a 7-8 hour stretch at night!