FF - how do you count the ounces, pre or post powder?!

[Tinkjon]

If you have 7 oz of water and then add the powder it makes up to almost 8oz of formula - so would you say that was a 7 or 8 oz bottle? It may not sound like it matters, but DS is drinking next to nothing so every half-ounce here and there counts when trying to aim for his daily total

7 i think.

I say he'd drank 7oz

I'd say 8

I go by the amount of water that I've put in so 7oz.

It's the amount of fluid you start with.

Its a 7 oz bottle it should go up to 8 and this is normal given that you put the water in first nd the powder will obviously add to it hence making up to 8. Confusing I know but you will always know if you have done it right if it goes up slightly from however much water you put in.

My dd is the same at the mo only drinking 6/7 oz of an 8 and she is nearly 5 months so know what you mean, about every ounce counts!!

I would have said 8. If you were feeding him ebm or cows milk you would be counting the total volume and can't see why you'd do anything different with formula, though not an expert.

I have been told that it's the amount of fluid that you drink in total so 7floz of water PLUS the powder makes 8 floz altogether.

Thanks everybody!

clear as mud then ??

Well if some people count it post-powder, then that's what I'm going to do too

If you can see 8oz in the bottle, then drink it all, you can safely say you've had 8oz!

So you can deduce that 7 scoops of powder has a displacement value of 1oz

Oooh, get you, Pink!

It's a 7oz bottle, not 8. You have to add one scoop per oz of water, 7oz of water, 7 scoops so 7oz bottle. I know it a bit confusing coz I was at first too, but it the powder that makes the milk, not the water. 7oz.

what the water and milk make TOGETHER is 8floz, that cannot be denied as it measures up to the 8 floz line on the bottle.
So a volume of 8floz is being drunk, not 7.

kittywise, that's fine, but when I weaned ds off of night time feed and gave 4oz of milk in 7 oz of water, was he still having 7oz of milk?
No.

Tinkjon, on the tin, it doesn't say to make an 8oz bottle, use 7 scoops of milk. I've not known anyone to count that as 8oz.

lbb, you shouldn't be making the milk up like that though. For the correct concentration 7 scoops of milk gives you an 8floz volume of the correct mixture.
the tin tells you the correct ratio of powder to water, that's all.

But what about ready-made formula, lbb? Do you think to yourself 'well part of this is water only and part is formula'?

7oz not 8. You go by the amount of water you start with prior to adding formula powder.

but the dried powder plus the water makes up the 8oz of milk - you cant just make 1oz disappear. If there is 8oz in the bottle after 7scoops to 7oz then when they finish the bottle they have drunk 8oz of liquid. If you check the calorie values of ready made to reconstituted formula then they are the same and you wouldnt deduct an ounce from the amount you pour from a carton.

I love this thread! I'm always wondering about this.

I'd say it was an 8oz bottle, tbh. But I would feel in my heart that it was 7oz.

I've just realised how much formula I've been wasting.

Tinkjon, if I poured 7oz of ready made formula into a bottle then it would be 7oz. I wouldn't say to people that it was 6oz coz some of it was water because it's ready made. The manufacturer has done that bit for us, but they would not use the equivalent of 7 scoops of powder and call it 8oz.

If you are in doubt as to how anyone has come to the conclusions they have, I suggest you call the helpline on the tin and ask them. They will be able to give you the correct answer to your original question.

the formula plus the water does not make up 8oz because you have to think about the strength of the liquid. Any1 know of people that have watered down milk?

If I am wrong, I'll stand corrected but really don't think I am. X

I think folk are confusing volume with concentration here.

The ready to feed 7oz cartons contain 7oz in volume of milk. Your powdered version - 7 scoops to 7fl oz water - becomes 8oz of milk which is of the same concentration as the aforementioned ready-to-feed milk.