What is everyone's baby drinking at 3 weeks old. Olivia is combination fed and was taking 80 ml every 3 hours from 7-7pm then from the 7-7am it was every 1.5 hours on the same amount. So I stopped giving a ratio of 50/50 breast milk formula from 9pm and give just formula and increased to 100 ml as she was so hungry. Only for her to wake at 1.5-2 hour intervals all night. Guzzling a 100 ml bottle sleeping for. Bit having a small breast feed then napping then wanting a bottle and so on. As she is the only one I've combination fed so young I have no idea how long they go or how much they drink. The sleep deprivation is a killer not to mention that I'm expressing 400-500 ml of breast milk a day round the clock and it's frustrating she sleeps fine from 5-6am onwards and starts to go longer between feeds from then. Can anyone relate ??
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I haven't breast fed so not really the same experience but Max was having about 4oz every 2hrs around the clock at that time. Sometimes barely making 2hrs. He did start to go longer around 5/6weeks though.
@suzie80, I was exclusively pumping all my milk! I wanted to know how much she was drinking, she would have only 1-2 hours between every 4 ounces in the daytime. I've gone back to breastfeeding and just pumping 2x a day to store my extra milk- find she goes longer than when on bottles yet she only feeds for say 15 mins! If I was Gona do it all again, I would just EB and trust that it would get easier and that they get used to it. I give one bottle of formula on last night feed and she sleeps for 8 hours (from 8-9 weeks). My friend used to do 15 mins on boob and then 4 ounces. Up the ounces according to age- she would never finish FF however so she used to waste quite a lot. The group she went to- all the women fed their babies like that, hope that helps somehow. I think your bubba is so young so what she's doing sounds really normal? Unless they're FF, they don't go that long at that age xx