For those of you formula feeding or pumping and bottle feeding how do you know how much to give your LO is a feeding. I am pumping and supplementing with formula. Sometimes I will feed him and he will act hungry right after but give it 30 minutes and he is asleep and seems fine. Sometimes I don't know if he is hungry still or just wants to suck. He is also having gas pains I think so he is fussy about that. So it is hard to tell if he needs more food. Up until now he has had good weight gain. By 5 weeks he was up two pounds from birth wait. Just worried of both under feeding and over feeding. I don't want to always revert to feeding him when he is fussy because I know that is not always the reason he is fussy. It just seems like he could eat all day long. Any insight would be great.
I am pumping and supplementing with formula also. LO is 1 month now and I upped her feedingd yesterday to 4oz. She was very restless at night and not sleeping as good. We just woke up for the first time tonight and she slept 5 hours woo hoo. Anyway, my pediatrician said you really can't over feed them at this point and to let her dictate how much and when's she's hungry. My LO was doing the same as yours taking 30 min to settle but now that I upped her bottle from 3 1/2oz to 4 she seems a lot more satisfied. You will know if they are too full if they spit up. Hope that helps. That's all the insight I have
southernbelle thanks for the info. Out of curiosity how much does your LO weigh currently. Just cause I know how much they eat is also based on how much they weigh. My LO is eating just under 3oz a feeding so I probably need to up it. Last night he ate at 8:30 and then another 1.5 oz at 9:30 and another 1.5 oz at 10:30. That is good to know that they won't over eat at this point.
Post by forevermyfenix on Oct 29, 2015 12:26:09 GMT -5
If your pediatrician has you in a schedule for feeding, so you stay counting the time between from start feed to start feed or do you start the clock to start feed #2 when LO finishes feed #1?
Start to start. Which is part of our problem. She is supposed to go 2.5 hours (one week old and not quite back to birth weight) between feeds, but the whole feeding process takes 45 minutes give or take--she takes FOREVER to burp, but if we don't get one out of her she wakes up screaming from gas pains.
Also, our pediatrician focuses a bit more on number of feeds in 24 hours once they hit their birth weight. She says 9 times in 24 hours.
I'm actually not sure. His last appointment was at two weeks and he was at 7 pounds 9 ounces then. He's five weeks now. I should jump on the scale with him to get an idea.
My LO was weighed last week and was 7 pounds 7 ounces and he is eating about the same as yours. Closer to 3oz 8 times a day.
Medela pump users: what the heck are you supposed to do with the threads on the back of the flange? A bottle screws to the bottom, and the tube goes in the back, in between another set of threads. What are they for? Obviously my pump works without whatever it is, but now I'm curious, and Google isn't helping.
Start to start. Which is part of our problem. She is supposed to go 2.5 hours (one week old and not quite back to birth weight) between feeds, but the whole feeding process takes 45 minutes give or take--she takes FOREVER to burp, but if we don't get one out of her she wakes up screaming from gas pains.
Also, our pediatrician focuses a bit more on number of feeds in 24 hours once they hit their birth weight. She says 9 times in 24 hours.
We were told every 2-3 hours but they prefer closer to 2 hours. Breastfeeding plus I'm supposed to supplement with a bottle of expressed breast milk since the jaundice makes it so dang hard to keep him awake to fully feed at the breast exclusively. Between the time it takes to attempt to get. Griffin to eat at the breast some, be fed from the bottle, and then the time it takes me to pump to keep my supply from dropping, I might get 15-20 minutes to sleep if I timed it start to start. There's gotta be a way to speed the whole process up!
forevermyfenix is it possible to have someone else feed him with the bottle while you pump. Your husband or family member if they are visiting. That would speed up the process a little bit.
Medela pump users: what the heck are you supposed to do with the threads on the back of the flange? A bottle screws to the bottom, and the tube goes in the back, in between another set of threads. What are they for? Obviously my pump works without whatever it is, but now I'm curious, and Google isn't helping.
There is a hand pump attachment that connects to it.
Start to start. Which is part of our problem. She is supposed to go 2.5 hours (one week old and not quite back to birth weight) between feeds, but the whole feeding process takes 45 minutes give or take--she takes FOREVER to burp, but if we don't get one out of her she wakes up screaming from gas pains.
Also, our pediatrician focuses a bit more on number of feeds in 24 hours once they hit their birth weight. She says 9 times in 24 hours.
We were told every 2-3 hours but they prefer closer to 2 hours. Breastfeeding plus I'm supposed to supplement with a bottle of expressed breast milk since the jaundice makes it so dang hard to keep him awake to fully feed at the breast exclusively. Between the time it takes to attempt to get. Griffin to eat at the breast some, be fed from the bottle, and then the time it takes me to pump to keep my supply from dropping, I might get 15-20 minutes to sleep if I timed it start to start. There's gotta be a way to speed the whole process up!
I had to do the same thing with my older daughter. I ended up having to exclusively pump for awhile for my own sanity. She was lazy and had a really bad latch. As they get a little older they usually become more efficient eaters and so attempting to breastfeed first didn't take as long.
We are still having to wake Charlotte up to eat most feeds, so I am just waiting until she is back above birth weight so we can wait a little longer to wake her at night. As the jaundice wares off, though, who knows what we will be dealing with when it comes to sleep because her levels were definitely high enough to cause her to be super sleepy.
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