Baby's milk diet / volume intake.

[sashimi]

serena, so long as your baby is healthy and happy and growing, don't worry about it. She knows her stomach capacity better than us!


Generally speaking, actually as babies grow, their stomachs become bigger, so they can retain more and be full longer.

You should watch out for growth spurts - temporary periods when their growth accelerates and they will drink non-stop! After every growth spurt, you will notice she seems bigger.

It may be that your baby just finished one growth spurt, so her hunger dropped somewhat.

[serena]

Thanks Sashimi

[TimmyOwner]

Hi


My baby is coming to 5 months old, and he takes an average of 500+ ml milk a day. He weighs 6.6 kg but compared to his older sibling at his age, he isn’t chubby. Is 500+ ml a day normal for 5 months old?

According to baby center, based on his weight he should be drinking 900+ ml?

He hasn’t started on any solids yet, but he had about 3 bouts of flu, running nose and cough when he was 4 months so he has lost his appetite.

Feel quite sad for him when I see him lose his chubby fats…

[CuriousDaddy]

My boy is still on breast milk... Don't really know how much he's drinking...


My wife just let him drink until he's full or fall asleep...

He's getting chubbier each day... :lol:

[O_M_G]

My baby girl is 2 weeks old and we have been re-visiting the polyclinics a couple of times through this 2 weeks. previously the doctor said that she should have as much milk as she likes as long as she's satisfied. With that, we feed our baby girl a variation of 60ml -120ml per session every 3-4 hrs. But we were badly scolded my the doctor today for over-feeding her. Would like to check on the range of amount we should be providing her.


She started of with breast milk and now she's doing both formula and breast milk. Breast milk going at 60ml - 80ml a day and the rest with formula.

Anyone?