Bottle Feeding Baby Milk Intake Chart

Some well meaning caregivers feed baby the bottle every time he makes a sound.

Bottle feeding baby milk intake chart. Always use the lowest flow bottle nipple that baby will tolerate. Forcing bottles to be emptied may result in overfeeding and excess weight gain even when feeding breast milk. He or she does not need a lot of infant formula with each feeding to be full. This amount will vary from baby to baby.

After the first few days. Age ounces per feeding solid foods. The average intake of breast milk remains at around 25oz 750ml per day for babies aged between one to five months 2. Your newborn baby s belly is tiny.

Pumped breast milk may be offered to infants in bottles while responding to the same feeding cues to determine how much they take. How much breast milk does a baby need each day. In younger newborns and up to 2 3 months old your baby should breastfeed on demand which usually means every 2 3 hours. Using bottle feeding as the primary way to comfort baby.

Your formula fed newborn will take from 2 to 3 ounces 60 90 ml of formula per feeding and will eat every three to four hours on average during her first few weeks. In the first days then 1 3 oz. If you prefer to use milliliters then one ounce 30 ml. At 6 months baby will consume about 4 8 ounces of formula or breast milk at each feeding.

Breastfed infants usually take smaller more frequent feedings than formula fed infants. Most babies top off at 32 to 36 ounces of milk in a. Pumped breast milk should be stored safely using appropriate temperature guidelines. 2 weeks to 2 months.

All breastfed babies need between 20 35 ounces of breast milk per day on average. Depending on the number of times your baby feeds every day you can determine the amount of milk that needs to be expressed per bottle per feed. Use the calculator above. Breastmilk feedings and amounts by age.

You can put 3 ounces or 90 ml of breast milk in the bottle to feed a baby who weighs 8 lbs 4 oz 3 74 kg. In this case the baby should be getting approximately 2 75 ounces 82 5 ml of breast milk at each feeding. Even with a slower flowing nipple it is important to pace the bottle feed to allow baby to better control his intake. By the end of their first week most will need around 150 to 200ml per kilo of their weight a day until they re 6 months old.

This is in addition to cereal and other baby foods. You can start by offering your baby 1 to 2 ounces of infant formula every 2 to 3 hours in the first days of life if your baby is only getting infant formula and no breast milk.