Formula fed babies…nearly 3 weeks old

I had a boy born at the same size in Nov I was told as soon as they start finishing the bottle add in an extra oz. We are up to 8oz at 8 weeks and sometimes he still wants more within 10mins

Hey, our baby was 8lb 9oz and we always thought he was hungry at the 2 hour post feed mark and he was having like 5oz quite early on turns out the crying was actually pain and he has reflux so we were basically masking the pain by feeding him as the sucking gives relief… he was literally having like 12 feeds a day until the HV advised this is too much so we stretched him out to 3 hours. Carobel really worked for thickening the milk slightly but turned out to be upsetting his tummy, now we’ve stopped that the relentless crying at 2 hours post feed has restarted so we’re looking into treatment for reflux again. Why do babies not come with a manual x

this is interesting! I’ve actually just read silent reflux! Some of those symptoms fit him! I have health visitor next Friday so I’ll speak to them about it. Thank you 🤍

Aww I found this app so useful for everything like this! Sometimes talking to other mama’s experiences are far better than any advice the HV/GP can give you as we are living through it!! Good luck 🩷 Xx

My girls been on 6oz since 2 weeks xx

So interesting to hear everyone else’s experiences. Our girl was born 6 lbs 6 and very quickly started taking on bigger feeds. We are combi feeding but today she was feeding every 90 mins and drinking between 110-140 mls of formula as well as 15 mins on the breast. I was worried this was way too much but I read it’s hard to overfeed a baby and they’re pretty good self regulating how much they consume. It’s a minefield though - there’s so much information I’m not sure what’s normal!

So I only moved to formula at around 3 weeks nd baby was about 8lbs 5oz then, he was having 4oz around 120mls and now he’s nearly 6 weeks and having 5oz 150mls about every 3 hours sometimes stretches to 4hrs. He weighs about 10lbs now and he’s a very long baby too. Sometimes I’ve given 6oz if he’s had a big gap between feeds and sometimes before bed depending on times. We follow his demands on feedings and odd times itl be within an hour or an hour 30 but mostly 3-4 hrs

My baby was 9lb 8oz, he’s 6 weeks today and on 6oz feeds. Often every 3 hours but he sometimes cluster feeds on an afternoon / evening

My boy was 9.1 and is on 5oz and polishing that off.. hes 3 weeks too 🙈