Help? TTMA supplementing

[jillywilly]

When I was pumping, we would do 4-5 oz bottles of breast milk, and 6 oz bottles normally of formula. I wouldn't make the formula ones too much larger than the bm bottles. Now that we're just formula he's eating 4-5 6 oz bottles of formula along with about two "meals" of solids a day.
I found the period of supplementing to be tough, because there's a ton about how much bm it formula babies need, but it feels like with supplementing its king of trial and error until you find the amounts that work for your baby.
As far as the supplementing formula, my understanding is it's essentially the same as regular formula, but we never used it - we did just regular formula even when it was just to supplement.

[purple]

Your baby may need more formula than BM. The composition of BM changes as the baby does, so milk for an older baby has a lot more calories. Formula stays the same, so an older baby needs a greater quantity. So even if you knew how many ounces of BM she'd been taking, she would probably need a different amount of formula.

[Widget123]

Re: formula brands- supplementing formula is just a marketing ploy. There is nothing radically different about it.

[holliberry28]

Ditto on the supplementing as a marketing ploy. But just wanted to jump in and say we use Gerber Gentle for M and it's the only formula that he's good in and we've been through them all when he had reflux. Gerber lol.

[dmoney]

Feb 9, 2016 20:35:25 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

So for a few weeks now we have been supplementing with formula. At first I was just mixing BM and F together in bottles. Recently we've been doing them separately, bottles of just BM or just F. Today was the first day I sent 2 full F bottles. Tonight N was apparently starving and stayed up an extra two hours past bedtime eating an additional 11 ounces. According to the daycare sheet she at all bottles sent plus her purees. 

So my question is, should I be using the same number of ounces of formula as a I do BM? So for instance I would send 5 4oz bottles of BM. Should the formula bottles also be 4oz or should they be more?

Also (and I plan on talking to ped about this at 9 mo appt), we are using the Gerber for supplementing -- so when I do wean completely is this something that she could eat full time or would I need to switch to a non "supplementing" formula? 

ETA - I haven't really had to figure this out before because when she's at home I just feed her when she's hungry and haven't paid attention to total ounces. 

So i was always told that we would need to increase the amount of Formula that she gets ( we combo feed as well since i dont produce enough).  But we have yet to increase the amount.  We give DD 4 ounce bottles but before bed if i remember i sometimes give her a 5 ounce bottle.  When i get home from work in stead of her getting a bottle I do nurse and she nurses as long as she wants to.  

We just started giving purees two times a day but that hasn't made a change in her bottle intake.  One thing we do have to do though is after she finishes her bottle we have to hide it so that she doesn't see it because if she does she will cry for it.  But we have found that once we hide it and burp her she is 100% fine and doesn't want anymore.

In regards to the type of formula, DD has been on Similac for Supplementing since we started.  I asked our pediatrician back then if we needed to switch and she said that the supplementing and the non supplementing formula are pretty much the same, and if she is doing fine on it there is no reason to switch to the "regular" kind.  Now your pediatrician might say otherwise but this is what mine told me.