How much breast milk to give.
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Sometimes that depends on little ones weight to figure out how much is needed to express for her and other times little one might want a little bit extra then what’s recommended.
I express too for my little one, and he takes around 70-80ml at 3 weeks, he was premature though. Maybe start around 70/80ml and top it up by 10ml if she looks like she’s looking for more.
I’ve always wondered the same - I recently read 30ml for every hour since they last fed.. but not sure how correct/accurate that is? I tend to loosely follow this and she seems pretty happy. I also nurse her myself in the evenings though x
I have a 3 week old and I'm expressing breast milk to give in bottles also. I'm giving 140-150ml every 2-4 hours as he's a hungry baby. The health visitor told me to give at least 120ml every 3 hours last week, but I'm just going with what baby wants - baby led feeds. I personally wouldn't worry too much about guidelines and go with what baby wants, hope this helps
Thank you for all your help☺️
@Val thank you, I just didn’t know if there was a limit so think I’ll just go with what she wants- I’ve got the health visitor next week so I’ll ask her☺️
We’re on 120ml every 2-3 hours with a 3 week old.
I express for bottle feeding and breast feed, my baby has between 80-110mls in one go from a bottle, but I only tend to give her 1/2 bottles a day and breast feed the rest of the time