How much oz?

My LB is 6 months old and he's quite a chunky boy he's 19lbs. How many oz of formula should he be having in a 24hr period? My lb just never seems full 😭 After he goes down for bed at 8pm with a 7oz bottle without fail every night he wakes up an hour and half later and wants another bottle then he wakes every 2 hours in the night for a feed and needs at least 5-6oz to fall back alseep and then during the day he has 7oz bottles. Within the last 24 hours he's had 45oz as I've tracked them which just seems so much but I'm not sure what to do as he's always so hungry 😭 is this normal? Should I speak to the gp and possibly a hungry baby milk? He's currently on kendamil comfort.
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If he’s draining the bottle then add another oz for his next bottle. I don’t think hungry baby milk will make a difference . Some babies are just hungry babies

my baby at that age would have anywhere from 8oz-13oz per bottle. 13oz before night and he’d still wake up 4 hours later for another 8oz🙃 if your baby has started weaning try giving some porridge before bed to try and fill him a little longer. Probably a growth spurt but some are just mega hungry and like their milk x

@Lottie that's reassuring thank you. the health visitor told me he shouldn't have any more than 34oz in 24 hours and he's way over so I've been stressing 😭 I'll up his bottles see if he settles better and yeah he has baby rice most nights couple of hours or so before bed but doesn't seem to make a difference x

I listened to my HV for ages and didn’t allow him over 32oz but then I thought sod it, can’t put a number on it if my baby is hungry I’m going to feed him. I did however try to not go over 40oz as I did think that was quite excessive 🤣 my boy has just turned 1 and has dropped to 2 bottles morning and night and only has around 16oz so it doesn’t last forever I say give him what he wants ☺️ yeah it never made my boy any fuller but I know it helped others x

@Lottie 13oz per bottle? What bottles were you using? I didn’t realise you could get any that big 😂

I had to use 2 mam bottles😴 did a 8 and a 5 x

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