FF - how many bottles per day?

I'm still feeding 3hrly because he seems to need it during the day. So he's getting 5 FF's a day at the moment still.

According to the tin he should have 250ml but I only give him 200ml each time because he doesn't get through a 250ml bottle with the solids he's having as well.

My DS never drunk what the tin said, he still only drinks 150ml at a time max at 9 months. He was having 6 bottles a day, but is now on 4. Def just go by what your DS wants, plunket told me he should be having a certain amount a day in total so didnt matter how many etc... sometimes he had more some less but he was happy.

I still demand fed Spencer when I weaned him and he didn't have a routine until he went onto solids and then he just fell into that himself. He never ever drank as much as the tin said he should, but then he was and still is on the 3rd percentile so no way he was gonna drink the average baby amount.

I think plunket do have a recommended range of how much milk they ideally should have each day so it might be good to ask your nurse that, or plunketline or have a look in the thriving under 5 book to see if it's in there somewhere.

Each child varies. We let the girls "demand" to an extent - try to wait until they wake up, so it's usually around 5 hours between feeds (sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more), and therefore they're on 4 feeds per day (200ml each time, except in the morning it's 210ml followed by Farex). Plunket used to tell me I wasn't feeding them enough, but I ignored them - they said it straight after expressing astonishment at how much weight they had put on in a 2 week period. The girls are happy and contented, and consistently putting on 200-250g per week, so I figure that it's what suits them and so we keep it at that.

My 5 (almost 6) monther has 4 bottles a day, plus one breast feed. The are all 200mls, except the one before bed which is 250ml. Her bottles are generally 3 hours apat (she sleeps6pm-7am).

I hve a friend whose baby (6months) only takes 150 at a time and will only have 4 bottles a day, 3 hours apart......obviously all babies are different.