How many bottles a day?
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Topic: How many bottles a day?
Posted By: Lisha
Subject: How many bottles a day?
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 10:56am
I am so confused! 
Not sure how many bottles a day Zoe should be having now, she is 2.5 months old, and all of a sudden doesn't want her 10.30ish bottle, has had some playtime then was yawning so have put her back in bed. Anyone else had this? Her last feed was about 7ish. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 12:36pm
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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!!
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 08 February 2008 at 7:23pm
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When I first swapped Spencer onto formula at 3 months he would have 7-8 feeds in a 24hour period of about 120ml and then he swapped to having 5 feeds a day of 180ml (but that was after swapping to specialist formula and with his constipation sorted).
I suppose it would depend on how much she has at each feed as well as how often? Also she is quite big so I would expect her to have more than Spencer did as he was only 6lb 2 at birth (although that might be false logic )------------- 
 
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 12:38pm
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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. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: nicolaann
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 2:11pm
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Sophie has started missing out her 10pm feed too Lisha. She has her last about 7-8pm. She drinks 200ml at a time, usually 4-5 times a day. She still sleeps through the night fine, so I'm not worried she is missing her late feed. ------------- Nicky, Mum to Alex (5) & Sophie (3) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 09 February 2008 at 4:48pm
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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 |