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Poppet1710 · 01/12/2019 12:54

Need advice again from you lovely people. My 6 week old baby is being bottle fed a mixture of breast milk and formula and has been for a week now. (We can’t directly feed from the breast despite lots of support and intervention so for our well being we switched to bottles.) He has breast milk during the day and formula overnight. There just seems to be no pattern to how much and when he eats. I’m not expecting a routine but just wondered if it is normal for him to graze in this way. For example in the last 24 hours he has fed 10 times:
1pm 110ml expressed, 4pm 130ml expressed, 18.30 90ml formula, 21.30 90ml formula, 23.45 60ml formula, 3.30 90ml formula, 06.30 50ml expressed, 08.45 70ml expressed, 11.00 20ml expressed, 12.30 50ml expressed. We are offering a soother at he takes it at times but others not. He was 4.45kg on Thursday and is taking between 650 and 800ml a day since we switched to bottles. I don’t know whether it would be better to alternate feeds between breast milk and formula rather than the day night thing we are kind of doing at the moment. Any suggestions welcome.

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Poppet1710 · 02/12/2019 13:18

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