Your baby will eat 2 — 3 ounces
of milk per feeding during the first 4 weeks, and then this amount goes up to 4 ounces or so.
We saw her weekly for about the first six weeks, and through weighed feeds, we learned that he never got more than 2 ounces of
breast milk per feeding.
Large breast milk storage capacity: you produce about 5 ounces of
breast milk per feeding, so you have less (6) feedings per day than other moms might have.
Newborn - Size Bottles Your baby's needs for
more milk per feeding will quickly outgrow the bottle's capacity.
3 - 4 month old babies need around 6 to 7 ounces of breast milk or
formula milk per feeding; however, the amount should be limited to 32 ounces in duration of 24 hours.
For women who have a diagnosed insufficiency, the prescription drug metoclopramide can increase prolactin levels, resulting in up to 1.5 ounces
more milk per feeding, but it should only be used short term, no more than three weeks.
In the first month of life, newborns range from two to four ounces of
breast milk per feeding, reports Alan Greene, adjunct clinical professor of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine.
So a baby who eats 7 or 8 times each day will need 3 to 4 ounces of
milk per feeding.
Because you produce just under 4 ounces of breast
milk per feeding, your baby will nurse around 8 times a day to get the full 30 ounces he or she needs to gain healthy weight.
I could barely produce 40 ml of
milk per feed!
Newborn - Size Bottles Your baby's needs for more
milk per feeding will quickly outgrow the bottle's capacity.