Formula - Help me figure out costs,types and brands

[scoop]

Think we are going to go with the good start with omegas concentrate... Hopefully it all goes well. Baby due in 5 weeks!

[MegaSilver]

We have a 2 week old and are wondering how much she should be feeding. She's 8 lbs. Currently, we are feeding her roughly 70 ml of formula a feed, every 3 hours. I have heard "WOW, that's a lot", and "You need to feed her more than that, less often".

I'm trying to convince my wife to gradually over the next few days work our way to 4 hour cycles of 100 ml. She is content to let her take what she wants, when she wants (at the expense of our sleep).

Any thoughts?

[ash101]

We have a 2 week old and are wondering how much she should be feeding. She's 8 lbs. Currently, we are feeding her roughly 70 ml of formula a feed, every 3 hours. I have heard "WOW, that's a lot", and "You need to feed her more than that, less often".

I'm trying to convince my wife to gradually over the next few days work our way to 4 hour cycles of 100 ml. She is content to let her take what she wants, when she wants (at the expense of our sleep).

Any thoughts?

70ml for 2 weeks old, I think that's quite a lot.
I fed him 1-2oz (30-60ml) per feed every 3 hrs and never over 2oz.
I don't advice you to feed her more and less often. You baby is still too young to eat a lot at once. And most of time you have to wake up your baby at 3 hrs cycle because she prefers sleep than eat at her age. Mine is 2.5mths old and still on 3 hrs cycle. I am trying to train him skip one meal at night but never successed yet. I will suggest you try to longer the cycle after one mth old if you want.

[ai_c]

i have a chart give to me by the public health nurse and on it for 4 days - 2 weeks, it says 6-10 feedings each day with 2-3oz each bottle.

[scoop]

i have a chart give to me by the public health nurse and on it for 4 days - 2 weeks, it says 6-10 feedings each day with 2-3oz each bottle.

Is it a big chart? Do you think you might be able to scan that in and post it?

[ai_c]

it's a page length. i'll scan and post it later.

edit: here's the scanned document

[scoop]

it's a page length. i'll scan and post it later.

edit: here's the scanned document

Thanks! We had our baby 5 weeks early and she was only 5-11 and drinking about 20mls a feeding. Now she is up to 12 days old and drinking about 60-70mls every 3 hours.

We went with the good start with omegas concentrate and the nurse gave us a great tip. Bought a carafe and boil water each day and fill the carafe. Water stays hot all day long. Fill as many bottles as you want with the concentrate. we want 80 ml bottles right now so we put 40 mls of concentrate in the bottles and put them in the fridge. At feeding time dump 40mls of hot water into the bottle and you are ready to go, with the hot and cold mixing to the right temp for the baby.