Expressed milk
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I got advised by infant feeding team that the total recommended for the day is Weight in kilos x 150ml So my little girl is 5 x 150ml = 750ml per day If feeding 8 times that'll be 93.75ml approx per feed (just over 3oz) (That said, as long as you're getting 6+ wet and 3+ dirty nappies approx then that's good too)
@Rebecca ooh okay thats pretty similar then I think in ml it was about 110!
@Emma that's very interesting! By that my LG is having waaay more than expected 😅 she's 3.6kg so would be 540ml/day averaging around 12 feeds a day = 45ml / 1.5oz per feed 🤯 and she had 110ml and then breast fed about 40 mins later for 20 mins. And she's still dropped 2 centiles as well!
@Emma her nappies I guess also reflect how much milk she's getting, we average about 12 nappies a day 🙈
It could be that she is wanting the breast foe comfort more than actual ‘food’ as she would have missed that having had the bottle for a feed. My 4 month old is EBF and has one of her feeds a day as an expressed bottle but 8/10 she will want the comfort for me not long after. I would have pumped to replace her feed at the time but she just wants the comfort x
Hope that made sense I’m half asleep typing with one eye open 😂 x
@Carla ahh that's such a good point I didn't think about the comfort side of things! She took the bottle so well, no fuss at all it didn't cross my mind she might miss the connection with me 🥺
@Hannah when I first started giving her a bottle she would always want breast not long after and I always used to think surly not? How could you be hungry so soon and it went on for weeks and weeks and then someone said it to me and I was like that makes so much sense! Thankfully it’s not always so it does give me a longer break sometimes but other times I know she just needs me and that’s okay 🩷
I was expressing milk when my baby was a newborn because of broken nipples and she was having 3oz per feeding every couple of hours (she was 3/4 weeks old at the time but she was a big baby, she was 3.6kg at birth so probably over 4kg at 4 weeks old, I don’t remember exactly lol)
I give 120ml as it’s all I can manage to express but my 6 week old usually wants a breast top up after x