how much expressed milk to give a 6 wk old baby for one feed at night

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hi my sister is considering giving her 6 wk old daughter one bottle of expressed milk at night, if she does do this how much milk should she give?

Thanks

I used to express as much as I could for a dreamfeed so that DH could do the last feed (although the bit about my getting an early night never quite worked ). I was doing that from about 3 or 4 weeks right through until DS went on bottle strike at 16 weeks. Can't remember how much he took at the beginning (think it was somewhere in the region of 40-60ml, but that was more limited by what I could produce during the day), but it could vary from 10-20mls up to over 200 as he was getting older.

I do remember being worried he was being short-changed if he finished the bottle (would he have drunk more?) and frustrated on those nights where he hardly took it (all that hard work down the drain !

We started with three fl oz and worked our way up until we hit the spot. DH would give her the bottle (once we'd taught her to use it - dreadful palaver but worth it) and at first she'd look at him expectantly at the end of it and start rooting again, so I'd appear and finish the feed. Next night, another fluid ounce, and so on until it was enough to send her back to sleep. About 5 fl oz in our case to start off with, but I think that's unusual.

I would say about 120ml at that age, but she may not take all of that. If she does scoff it all, then try some more next time.

yup I would say 90-120ml too.

Start less and offer more a bit later if seems hungry, as sometimes we would try dd on 120ml and she would guzzle it down only to vomit the whole lot back up again because it was too much! But she can take 90ml and if after half an hour still hungry/not settling has another 30ml.

If your DC doesnt finish what is offered you can refrugerate it and offer it at the next feed according to kellymom- which is what I do as like Mole007 I hate to see all that hard work wasted!