How much milk do I need to express for one feed?

[NoTeaForMe]

My daughter is 9 weeks old, how much milk would you think she would drink in a feed?

I'm thinking of expressing one feed a day/every few days depending on what I can get and what suit us once I've started.

Any advice?

the kellymom site has a useful milk calculator. roughly for an EBF babie (ie before weaning) they drink about the number of ounces it was since the last feed - ie if she feeds approx 2 hourly she'll probably drink 2oz, if more like 4 hourly then more like 3-4oz.

They often don't like bottles much (many many threads about that on here!) so I'd get going soon

About 3oz is probably a fair guess.

I'd gave guess 2-3 oz depending on how often they feed.

Good luck by the way - DD is 14 weeks and wouldn't take a bottle by nine weeks. In fact the first two weeks were the only time age did but we had to hold back as she was gettin confused bless her. By seven weeks we had missed the boat.

But DS took a bottle periodically until
About four months when he starte refusing it. I do wonder if that might not had happened if we had been more consistent.

But I'm convinced with DD it wouldn't have made any difference. She likes things to be always the same bless her!

Thanks!

I've kind of been putting it off. My first daughter was mixed fed by now and I never expected breastfeeding to go this well. But I really don't want her to refuse bottles and I'd like to go out at some point!

Shit-do you think we've missed the boat now?

both mine went through phases of hating bottles but eventually due to calm perseverence esp by my mum when I was out, they both switched between the two happily (DD stopped BFing at 15/12 when she got her first very late teeth and was very very bity, DD2 self weaned just before her first birthday but i kept offering til she was one and then accepted that her preference for cows milk in a tommee tippee was actually making my life much easier that this stage)

Don't panic. Babies sense weaknesses!

Just come in with a relaxed attitude that you're giving it a go. I got massively stressed by DDs refusal until I realised that actually bf was going fine, she feeds fast so it's relatively easy and that evenings would get easier before she caved in and accepted a bottle. So I stopped trying. The stress doesn't make it any more likely to work.

From what I read it's best to be consistent about when you feed them with a bottle and do it regularly.

For us that wasn't enough but it might be for you.

DD has opinions and makes them known. In this case her opinion was that bottles weren't going to happen. Either that or she didn't understand them.

We are just going to introduce her to a tippee cup in a few weeks time.

Worth a try with the bottle though, what do you lose?

And good luck. I've known loads of people mix feed successfully. We tried for about a month and to be honest I found getting the time to express as difficult as dealing with DD gettin agitated by the bottle.

We did find she got less agitated if we gave it to her when she wasn't ravenous or tired.

But if any of my advice clashes with someone who has been successful then ignore it please as I've failed miserably twice at mixed feeding despite my best intentions.