Ok so baby girl is now 5 months old,. I'm nursing her exclusively when I'm with her, but I work like 37 hours a week. I know the ounce an hour rule for exclusively breastfeed babies, but what about babies that recieve formula during the day. She drinks mostly formula during the day, I've seen that with formula fed babies the amount they drink should be increased but with breast feed babies it shouldn't. What should I do should I tell them to stop feeding her so much formula or just let it go because she is getting mostly formula during the day and nursing the rest of the time?
My DS is fed the same way. He's 7 months right now and he gets 3 8oz bottles while i'm at work. When i started working when he was 4 months he was getting a 6 oz bottle.
I breastfed and formula fed my dd and I always gave her the same amount. If she finished and wanted more I would give her more but that usually only happened during a growth spurt. She never took more than 4oz at a time until she was over a year old but she's tiny like her mama. I say just feed em' until they are full so if she wants more formula when she is in someone else's care so be it.
Are you pumping at all? You should pump as often as possible while away.
im getting the urge again... (a little of a vent also)
TATTOO! What do you think?
- mamoore83
on Nov. 21, 2012 at 4:22 PM