How frequently does baby take bottle/breast?

[jaime183]

we offer every 3 hours but sometimes it takes him until 4 to really want it.
Luke will not drink if he's not hungry- he is the ultimate bottle refuser.

[skiesthelimit]

He nurses about every 3 hours. Sometimes less and sometimes more. He usually nurses 6-7 times in 24hours.

[helicase]

We are on the same schedule as jamaicam. So, 4 hours between feedings with 3 solid meals. And, T STTN.

[rjamz]

Every 3-4 hours. Now with solids it has started to stretch out

[katie]

L gets a bottle about every 3 hours but usually it ends up being longer, like 4 hours. If the 3 hour mark is comining up and it's nap time she will still go to sleep rather than giving her the bottle. She doesn't really ask for one like she did. I give her solids an hour after the bottle.

She's also in DC so they have her more on a schedule with the room and do snacks between meals (I don't at home). Most days she only drinks 2 bottles from when I drop her off around 7:30 and pick up around 5:30. She may be starting her 3rd one depending on how she is acting with them.

[thedahliharpa]

She nurses every 2-3 hours depending on how busy we are. When the nanny is here she takes a bottle every 3 hours.

[formerlyllizzyb]

I BF about six times in a 24 hour period.

[cat19]

I feed her often. I try not to pay attention to how often because it depresses me.

[ruby412]

Every 3 hours during the day. So around 7:15, 10:30, 1:15, 4 and 6:45. Ish.

[TrudyCampbell]

I BF about every 3 hours. I feed her solids in the middle, so about an hour and 15 minutes after her last breast milk feeding.

[mikehoncho]

We usually do a bottle some time in the morning, one before morning nap, afternoon nap, then one at bed. So, I guess unless he is growth spurting and eating lots he probably does 4-6 a day? He takes 7 ounces each bottle, if that helps any.


ETA: he has solids three times a day. Not full meals each time but usually eggs and fruit for breakfast, mum mums/pita with hummus for lunch, and whatever we are eating for dinner.

[carawestt]

About every 3-4 hours. He sometimes goes a little longer while we're out and he's distracted.

ETA: These days I never have to sit down and make him eat, he lets me know when he's hungry.

[mikehoncho]

Oh hey, to better answer your actual question, I don't make him eat ever 3 hours or so. I wait until he acts hungry then feed him. It just so happens to work out to about ever 3 or 4 hours.

[Deleted]

S takes a bottle when he wakes up, before morning nap, before afternoon nap, and at bedtime. He also eats solids 3x a day with snacks. He STTN most nights now, but if he wakes up I will give him a bottle then also.

[eav2c]

We are every 2-3 hours and that sometimes gets stretched to 3-4 hours. The more tired he is, the more he eats. If he's in a really playful mood he's too distracted to eat. He still nurses 2-4 times a night too. I feed him when he lets me know. He gets whiny. You could try that with J too.

[raynes]

Owen BFs every 2-4 hours. Through the day usually every 2.5-3.5, at night 3.5-4.5, though he's starting to drift towards the shorter end of things, which I think has to do with his lack of solids eating. H wants me to start feeding him more often in hopes to tank him up through the day. I am resistant to this.

[lydiasings28]

Every 2-3 24/7.

[Deleted]

I wait until he 'asks'. Its averaging about 4-4.5 hours. He only takes 6oz bottles. And we just upped his food to 3 times a day. Bfast, snack/lunch, and dinner. He takes about 4-5 bottles a day.

ETA: He also goes about 12 hours during the night with no feeding.

[lauranicole91]

3-4hrs with solids in between during the day. At night she goes 11 hours without boob.

[wildcatprincess]

He nurses about 4 times a day, not at even intervals. He nurses in the morning, about 2 hours after that, then not again for another 5 hours. Next will be 3-4 hours from now and after that will be the bedtime nurse about 2-3 hours later.

Our 3rd session today I don't think he even got a letdown, he was on and off too much, so I'm not sure waiting longer helps all that much. Then again he had an egg, a pancake, about an oz of cheddar, and a veggie pouch for lunch so maybe he was too full

[laurack]

Every 3 hours pretty much. when sleep is going well (perhaps half the time?) she will go from 830 to 3/4am or so without a feed. When sleep is going poorly (all the time lately) she nurses maybe every 3 hours round the clock.

During the day she takes 3 bottles at daycare of 4oz. Some days she doesn't finish them.

She will go more hours if I purposefully feed her more solids close to milk time, enough to fill her up but I don't like to do this. I did it a couple of times on vacation because I needed to pump a bit of milk.

[Regina Philange]

Lou gets a bottle every four hours during the day. I FF. He gets his first one as soon as he wakes up and then his last one at about 630ish before bedtime at 7ish.

[lolaburns]

We went to every 4 hours about a month ago because he has to have 2 hours in between his vitamins and a bottle.


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[hass2001]

I nurse about every 2-3 hours when I'm with her. I'm not really sure about her bottle schedule.

At night she normally goes 10 - 11 hours with only one feeding.

[bebeetmoi]

Jan 2, 2013 11:21:23 GMT -5 cat19 said:

I feed her often. I try not to pay attention to how often because it depresses me.

Same. Plus she eats a ton of solids. She's an eater, to be certain.

[claralou]

I nurse roughly every four hours (and she gets a 5oz bottle instead when I'm at work). She's like clockwork - almost to the minute. Roughly every two hours in between during the day, she gets solids (breakfast lunch dinner). So a "normal" weekday looks like this: 6am: nurse, 8am: breakfast, 10am:bottle, 12pm:lunch, 2pm:bottle, 4pm:dinner, 6pm:nurse. She typically eats at least once in the MOTN, sometimes 2-3 times.

ETA: wording

[browneyedhunni85]

He eats about every 3-4 hours with two solids during the day. He usually will go a long stretch at night. I've noticed he is starting to go longer and longer between bottles.

[Deleted]

I'd say I nurse her about every 2-3 hours during the day.. Usually she's up around 8:00 for the day, I nurse her. Then at about 10:30ish before she goes down for her morning nap I nurse her. At about 12:30 or so, usually about 1/2 hour after I feed her solids for lunch she nurses again. Then at about 2:30-3:00 when she wakes up from her nap she nurses and at about 4:30ish or so when DH comes to pick her up from work she'll nurse again. At 6:30 she get's solids for dinner and then at about 8:00 she nurses and then at 9:30 I nurse her before putting her in bed. Usually she comes 1-2 times at night, it depends when she comes for her first night feeding, if it's earlier she'll wake up 2 times otherwise only 1 time.

Ugh.. this makes me realize how many times she is nursing during the day yet.. it's a lot! 7-10 times depending on the day! Her biggest problem is she get's sidetracked easily during the day so that means she doesn't eat enough so she needs to eat more...

[devotchka]

Jan 2, 2013 11:00:40 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Someone mentioned in the BF poll that their baby still takes a bottle/boob every 3 hours. So does J, for the most part, when she's awake. She could probably go longer since she has little interest in sitting still and taking a bottle, but I generally try to feed her every 3 hours. Should I just wait until she "asks" for it? Maybe she'd actually be hungry enough to take the whole bottle before getting distracted then...

What's your baby doing these days?

eta: Sometimes she goes a little longer if she's been napping or if it's close to dinner time, but if she's awake, and it's been 3 hrs since the last bottle and it's not time for solids, I grab her and try to feed her.

He takes the boob every 2-3 hours when awake. I try to basically give him a good full feeding after he wakes up in the morning and after his 2 naps and then whenever he seems to want it, which makes for about every 2-3 hour feedings. Some of those are comfort feedings, and if I actually go into a darkened, quiet room and lay down with him (or do it after a nap in bed) I can get a good long feeding in.

[imimahoney]

Ari eats 4, 7oz bottles every 4 hours. He is also eating 3 solid meals a day.