going from 5 to 4 bottles

I never know what to do about the bedtime bottle (5th one)... they have veggies and a bottle around 4-5 or so and bath around 6...
during the day dd cries when she is hungry but not during this feed...she loves her bottle so ofcourse if I offer it she takes it..

They can easily go to sleep without a bottle...if I give it to them they drink it...if I don't they just go to sleep until the morning..

If they would stay up later...7 or so it would give me at least 2 hours between feeds but whenver I try to do that
they just have a melt down...they need to go to bed early.

how many ounces are they suppoused to be eating at this time?

 

How many hours in between do you do? My Lo's are adjusting to doing 4 bottles and Im wonderig what you do? How many oz. are they doing?

 

I recently went from 5 botles to 4...around the same time I introduced their 2nd solid feeding. I ended up cutting out an afternoon bottle b/c thats the one they drank the least, and I feed them solids around the same time. This is what we do:

7:30 - bottle (7 oz)
8:30 - breakfast (oatmeal and fruit, sometimes yogurt)
11:00-11:30 - bottle (6 oz)
2:30 - bottle (6 oz)
3:30 - solids (meat and veggies)
6:30 - bottle (7oz)

Not sure what the recommended intake of formula is, but I think I remember seeing something about 24 oz (I could be wrong though)...

 

QUOTE(Natalochka @ Apr 10 2009, 04:31 PM) [snapback]1267842[/snapback]
Not sure what the recommended intake of formula is, but I think I remember seeing something about 24 oz (I could be wrong though)...

My LO's are getting about 32 oz of formula and breast milk a day. They're only 2 mo. Is this normal? In response to the original question; My DD took 5-6 bottles til she was 12 mo. I used food more as a supplement to the bottles, than vice versa.

 

QUOTE(azucena @ Apr 10 2009, 04:57 PM) [snapback]1267925[/snapback]
My LO's are getting about 32 oz of formula and breast milk a day. They're only 2 mo. Is this normal? In response to the original question; My DD took 5-6 bottles til she was 12 mo. I used food more as a supplement to the bottles, than vice versa.


From birth to about 4.5 months mine finished about 40-45 oz/day. So I think 32 oz is pretty normal. Anyway, at that age you can't over feed them imo ^_^

As for the bottle question. Mine have about 4 bottles during the day [plus a nap bottle about 4 oz] and still wake once each during the night. :mellow: We do solids 2-3 times a day with one snack. They finish about 30-35 oz per day as of now.

 

Mine went to four bottles when they were 6 months. They drank 6oz at each bottle, and we increased it to 7. They ate at 7, 11, 3, and 7pm right before bed.
I think up to 32oz a day is normal for that age, although I can't actually remember, it could be 30, but close enough

 

I started doing 4 bottles around 5 months old. Mine have a bottle every 4 hours and won't eat if I try to give them one sooner. My pedi told me to be sure mine have at least 20 oz/day. I've heard others say way more, but mine only have about 24 oz/day and are growing by leaps and bounds! They are also still on Neosure (high calorie formula), so not sure if that makes a difference with how much they drink...?

 

I think I started 4 bottles around 6-7 months, it was when they stopped showing interest in their 5 pm bottle, they would not take hardly anything at all.