To try hungry baby milk?

[Joeyest84]

My ds (8weeks) has been on 180ml (6oz) of formula for the last week taking five bottles a day. He's just getting over a bad cold where he barely ate but now is drowning all his bottles and wants an extra feed at night making it six bottles now . Is it worth trying the hungry baby milk as 180ml is already a lot for his age and weight so a little reluctant to up the amount and really could do with getting rid of the extra feed he now wants at night as I'm now getting no sleep.

Have you tried giving him 7floz?

Maybe he needs more bottles in the day? I wouldn't go with hungry baby as it is just harder to digest, it doesn't have any extra calories. How much does he weigh?

How many day feeds and how many night feeds is he having?

This probably makes me sound like a bad parent, but if my dd wanted more milk i gave it to her without thinking!
Some days I'm hungrier than others, and after I'm ill I always eat everything in sight.. Same for babies?
Her weight has just stabilised at 12 months, but it was never a concern.

You might want to read up on hungry baby milk before you take that step, I never bothered reading up/ giving the milk but I've heard some less than ideal stuff about it. Hope he settles down soon!

tents baby hungry, you feed baby. What's bad about that?

My dd was on the 91st centile and the hvs were worried about her putting on too much weight, I agreed with them and carried on doing exactly what I wanted
She's now settled..... On the 91st centile!!

Hungry baby milk is a big con don't get sucked in, just more difficult to digest. Up the bottles to 7oz or feed more often. I think at 8 weeks my ds went from every 4 hrs to every 3 and has stayed like that and is now 6 months, I just gave him what he wanted and was lead by him, yeah sometimes he doesn't take a whole bottle sometimes he does. But as said above on different days you probably eat more than others and babies do the same.

Also I know its more expensive but less drama at night, I buy ready made cartons. So wake up, decant into bottle, feed baby and back to bed. No wandering about and making or heating bottles.
Also thermos with boiling water and made up bottle in cool bag, would probably work as well.
It's hard with no sleep, ds is going through a growth spurt so is having a feed at 2/3 am instead of 5/6 am and I am knackered.

ihate I have a giant 91st centile baby too! Smile and nod ha .

The hungey baby food is just larger molecules that take longer to digest - it didn't work, yep I tried it. It just constipated dd.

I cluster fed and upped her oz and she settled.

I would just up his milk. If he's not hungry he won't drink it. He could be going through a growth spurt in which case you just give more milk and see how it goes.

tinker glad to know I'm not the only one with a giant! Is yours tall? My dd is the same height as my friends averaged heighted (?!) two year old!

op just go with your instincts, take a deep breathe and do it then agree with whatever the hv says and keep doing it
:)

I have a giant baby tall wise, and got "oh I thought he would be heavier" from the hv the other day, he was much bigger at 6 months than the 9 month old next in the queue for weighing. I care not, I'm tall and so is dh.