How many bottles a day?

Hi

We feed Ollie as follows (aprox times):

Wake up #1 - 5.30am ish, Wake Up #2 9am ish

11am, 1pm, 3.30pm, 6pm ish, then bedtime bottle between 7.30-8pm.

I guess I feed him 7-8 times a day depending on how hungry he is, he gets 150ml bottles, but sometimes if he is really grizzly I will make up 100mls as a "snack".

Hope this helps.....we have pretty much let him set the timeframes for when he wants feeding, and it seems to stretch out longer between feeds some days and on others he seems hungry all day!!

 

Gina was having 6-7 bottles at that stage and drinking between 100-150ml, mostly around the 140ml mark. I've kept a schedule of all her feeds and times etc and they seem evenly spaced during a 24 hour period with around 3-4 hours between each feed.

When I was Karitane training
we had three different routines
some were on 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm and 10pm they were called the even feeds
the odds were 4am,8am,12midday, 4pm and 12middnight
the sargood ward had older babies which used to be on a 7am, 11am, 3pm and 7pm and 11pm if they needed it.
We used to have three different babies to care for sometimes one in the Sargood room and then maybe a baby on even times and one sometimes on the even schedule. always very busy. and the shifts were nurses on morning shift, afternoon shift and then three nurses on night shift