How much milk should I give?

My little one has always been EBF as she refused bottles (except for a couple of times) but has now started nursery. She now seems to be taking them but she's offered it twice and the most she's ever had from one bottle is 3oz. Today she had 5oz total from her two bottles which is honestly such a big win in comparison to every other day.

I breastfeed her before nursery, on lunch, after nursery and then again at bedtime, is this enough?

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My little one refuses bottles and HV told me as long as he has food and water throughout the day and I feed him around nursery he’ll be fine and he will make sure he gets enough milk so I’d say yes!!

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Are the bottles expressed milk? If they are, they never need to be more than 4oz at a time!

Also your baby will have what they need and it sounds like it’s enough!

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What bottles and teat size worked for your baby? Also a BF a mum trying to now move to bottle 😌

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yes, it's expressed milk. I sit there every night pumping from one side and feeding from the other like a cow 😅😅

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the Nuk perfect match. They have teats that have multiple holes like a nipple (only one I've seen with that) and they're squishy and not plastic feeling so I believe they imitate a boob better than other bottles.
We use the biggest size there is just because I have always had a fast flow, but the small and medium size still work well x

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Also, does anyone know if my milk supply will be funny by having loads of milk out at night and then hardly any throughout the day?

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Amazing thank you x

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By this time, your supply should pretty much be supply and demand. So it should be okay! If you feel any pressure through the day, you can just relieve yourself with some hand expression x

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