I can't seem to find the answer

[parentalrights1]

Does a 6 month old baby need more than three ounces for a bottle?

I did an estimate about how many feedings he does per day and I'm not sure how accurate I was because it seems to vary, but I think I got about 9 ish and I did the math and everything and I think it was just under 3 ounces.

I don't know if that changes as they get older.

My mom is supposed to babysit him in a couple of days, but honestly, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, she knows jack squat about breastfeeding and always expresses some concern over how much he's getting especially since she says he plows through it and then cries like he wants more.

Now that he's 6 months she keeps insisting (there's no way that's enough to satisfy him! I can't find a definite answer either way and I need to be able to tell her what to do and with confidence, because my family is the type that if you try to tell them anything outside of the realm of what they think then they seem to have this almost condescending "laugh what you say off as silly new mom" attitude. It's subtle, but not subtle enough

[Duquesne]

1-1.25 oz per hour. No bottle bigger than 3oz.

Your milk changes. Not the amount needed. :)

[parentalrights1]

So is it 3 oz per hour or per three hours?

Quoting Duquesne:

1-1.25 oz per hour. No bottle bigger than 3oz.

Your milk changes. Not the amount needed. :)

[SewingMamaLele]

In studies, babies were found to take in the same amount throughout most of the first year.    I think the thing to remember is that with bottlefed babies they increase the amount of milk and decrease the number of feedings... so baby may take 8oz in a sitting, but they're only getting 3-4 feedings a day.    With breastfed babies, they will take the same 24-32oz per day, just broke up into smaller feedings (which is better for babie's health!).

Hold up your babies hand to your mom and tell her that's the size of his stomach.   Then look at the 3oz bottle... about the same size?

[shortyali]

Per 3 hours. She needs to relearn how to feed a bottle. After every oz burp, switch side your holding baby on and repeat. It's supposed to take them 10 minutes or so to eat so the brain registers it's full. So you also want the slowest flo nipple you can find. I'm mobile so can't link right now but go to kellymom.com and look up how to bottle feed a breast fed baby and have her read it.
I know that look and laugh. I tell family straight up either listen to me or don't ever see baby without me. They learned quick, lol.

Quoting parentalrights1:

So is it 3 oz per hour or per three hours?

Quoting Duquesne:

1-1.25 oz per hour. No bottle bigger than 3oz.



Your milk changes. Not the amount needed. :)

[parentalrights1]

So does that mean I should tell her to give him 8 oz at once? How long until the next feeding?

But if the stomachs only as big as 3 oz how does he get 8?

Quoting SewingMamaLele:

In studies, babies were found to take in the same amount throughout most of the first year.    I think the thing to remember is that with bottlefed babies they increase the amount of milk and decrease the number of feedings... so baby may take 8oz in a sitting, but they're only getting 3-4 feedings a day.    With breastfed babies, they will take the same 24-32oz per day, just broke up into smaller feedings (which is better for babie's health!).

Hold up your babies hand to your mom and tell her that's the size of his stomach.   Then look at the 3oz bottle... about the same size?

[Duquesne]

No! no bottle bigger than 3 oz.

Babies only need 1-1.25oz per hour.

So a 3oz bottle every three hours.

Quoting parentalrights1:

So does that mean I should tell her to give him 8 oz at once? How long until the next feeding?

But if the stomachs only as big as 3 oz how does he get 8?

Quoting SewingMamaLele:

In studies, babies were found to take in the same amount throughout most of the first year.    I think the thing to remember is that with bottlefed babies they increase the amount of milk and decrease the number of feedings... so baby may take 8oz in a sitting, but they're only getting 3-4 feedings a day.    With breastfed babies, they will take the same 24-32oz per day, just broke up into smaller feedings (which is better for babie's health!).

Hold up your babies hand to your mom and tell her that's the size of his stomach.   Then look at the 3oz bottle... about the same size?

[SewingMamaLele]

No, no... he's a breastfed baby!   I was saying that formula fed babies generally get larger bottles just a few times a day and that breastfed babies are on a completely different schedule. 

Quoting parentalrights1:

So does that mean I should tell her to give him 8 oz at once? How long until the next feeding?

But if the stomachs only as big as 3 oz how does he get 8?

Quoting SewingMamaLele:

In studies, babies were found to take in the same amount throughout most of the first year.    I think the thing to remember is that with bottlefed babies they increase the amount of milk and decrease the number of feedings... so baby may take 8oz in a sitting, but they're only getting 3-4 feedings a day.    With breastfed babies, they will take the same 24-32oz per day, just broke up into smaller feedings (which is better for babie's health!).

Hold up your babies hand to your mom and tell her that's the size of his stomach.   Then look at the 3oz bottle... about the same size?

[parentalrights1]

Yeah. Every damn time I go over there and the baby gets fussy, if I pick him up and he calms down (even if it was the first time that day he got fussy and wanted to be held) then they always do some passive aggressive (Why's he so spoooiled parentalrightsss" and try to pass it off as "teasing" despite me telling them every damn time that he's allowed to want to be held every now and then and to stop assuming I carry him all over the place all the time, because it just isn't true.

And lord help me when I told them you can't spoil a baby.

Quoting shortyali:

Per 3 hours. She needs to relearn how to feed a bottle. After every oz burp, switch side your holding baby on and repeat. It's supposed to take them 10 minutes or so to eat so the brain registers it's full. So you also want the slowest flo nipple you can find. I'm mobile so can't link right now but go to kellymom.com and look up how to bottle feed a breast fed baby and have her read it.
I know that look and laugh. I tell family straight up either listen to me or don't ever see baby without me. They learned quick, lol.

Quoting parentalrights1:

So is it 3 oz per hour or per three hours?

Quoting Duquesne:

1-1.25 oz per hour. No bottle bigger than 3oz.



Your milk changes. Not the amount needed. :)

[parentalrights1]

Oh okay lol

Quoting SewingMamaLele:

No, no... he's a breastfed baby!   I was saying that formula fed babies generally get larger bottles just a few times a day and that breastfed babies are on a completely different schedule. 

Quoting parentalrights1:

So does that mean I should tell her to give him 8 oz at once? How long until the next feeding?

But if the stomachs only as big as 3 oz how does he get 8?

Quoting SewingMamaLele:

In studies, babies were found to take in the same amount throughout most of the first year.    I think the thing to remember is that with bottlefed babies they increase the amount of milk and decrease the number of feedings... so baby may take 8oz in a sitting, but they're only getting 3-4 feedings a day.    With breastfed babies, they will take the same 24-32oz per day, just broke up into smaller feedings (which is better for babie's health!).

Hold up your babies hand to your mom and tell her that's the size of his stomach.   Then look at the 3oz bottle... about the same size?

[Nicolle_09]

I hope no one confused you. Your milk changes so the amount doesnt.

1 to 1.25 ounces of milk per hour seperated.

So that needs to be a 3 ounce bottle every 3 hour

Baby needs to SLOWEST flow nipple, hold baby upright and away from the body and burp after every ounce.

Remember babies will overeat from the bottle very easily.