Overfeeding/overeating with bottle?

Baby is 11weeks, ebf during the day but at night time I give her a bottle of expressed milk before bed. She usually takes 5oz, sometimes 6oz. Tonight when I emptied my milk storage bag to her bottle I realised there was 8oz in there. I figured she wouldn’t take this much and would only take 6oz as normal so continued to give the bottle.

I’m very mindful of overfeeding when using a bottle so always make sure to go off her cues, give breaks, let her latch onto the bottle etc, but even with this she surprisingly took near enough 7oz (with burp breaks in between) and was showing cues that she could have finished the bottle. I stopped at 7oz tho cos I’m worried this is too much in one feed for a baby her age to be having?

She’s settled and content now and is dozing off to sleep, but are other babies her age having this amount of milk? Was I right to stop at 7oz? Should I have let her have the full 8oz? FTM here and don’t want to be over or under feeding 😭

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My nearly 11 week old is having 7oz at night and 6oz in day. Personally I would give them however much they want. One day my baby took 11oz in one feeding. Sometimes they are just hungry. My HV said try and always have it so there is some left in bottle so you know they are full. If they do overfeed they will just spit it up. I couldn’t worry too much xx

If you’re giving baby expressed breast milk they shouldn’t have more than 5oz at a time as your milk becomes higher in calories and adapts to what your baby needs as your baby grows unlike formula which is why you up the formula amount as your baby grows. Do you pace feed baby with the bottle? You may find this helps baby realise they’re full. Hope this helps xx

oh I didn’t know that! I try and pace feed but when we do our breaks she will sometimes get so upset and will cry until she gets the bottle back. I do a break every 2oz and we burp, if she isn’t crying for the bottle I offer it again but never put it straight in her mouth, I put it to the top of her lip and if she tries latching I give it to her, if she doesn’t I know she’s done. I think I may need to try pace feed more but I’m not sure how to go about it at times where she’s crying for the bottle during breaks

I did this for about first 8 weeks but then he wanted about 4 oz before burping xx

aw is he ebf besides the two bottles? What size test do you use? I’m still using size 1 which she seems to be getting on well with!

He was until around 6 weeks but didn’t want to take to me anymore only bottles. I use size 2 in Tommee teats he doesn’t fall asleep on bottle anymore which is why we upped the teat xx

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