Formula feeding help.

[CourtneyCox2021]

Evening,.
So need some advice please 😁

When my LO was born she always drank more then the "guidelines" and I went with the flow...

When she goes through a growth spurt she insatiable with hunger - she drains bottles and sometimes has a second bottle totalling about 900mls to 1000mls a day. Which is what she is meant to have.

When she's not having a growth spurt she's having maybe 700mls some times less.... 🤔

She's like 1.5 stone and in a high percental.

She has some purees and tasting foods as she literally grabs my food, she never eats the food she tastes, and literally spits it out after a good suck or chew. She's not got her tongue thrust etc. I know the guidance no judging. The puree she has like 6 bites, even without giving food she won't drink anymore I do it sometimes to increase fluid intake (mainly porridge) .

She's 5.5months.

Any advice? Or just let her do what she wants?

I think that doesn't sound too wild, my twins are 7 months and for the last couple of months at least they've had 4*200mls a day plus quite often a bonus 150-200mls at about 10pm. One is on the 75th and one probably about the 50th

My LO has 5 feeds 6am/10am/2pm/6-630pm and dream feed about 11pm.(we give this as otherwise she wakes about 1am then won't drink her morning one at all) I make 210mls bottles - most she has in day is probably 700mls. But I suppose as she's growing I guess that's her Norm 🤷🏼‍♀️ she is happy baby smiles meeting miles stones etc

What centiles was she born on for weight and height and is she still tracking her weight centile?

I wouldn’t stress about mls if she’s satisfied and growing. A few bites of puree sounds right at this age. All astounds normal, don’t worry!

*sounds normal

It's hard to say exact weight - lockdown baby means no HV checks etc. But when we do it at home, she's tracking correctly.... High centile think it's 95th/97th she goes between. She's about 1stone 5lbs. Though we haven't done it for about 3/4 weeks. But she's getting longer - bigger clothes needed and she's still got fat rings 😂 wet nappies still. Bowels are maybe once a day as she's always been sometimes every other day.

Thank you. Such a worry when we have no groups and such and FTM.

I find it strange that one week eats loads then next it's a coaxing her to drink 🙄