Baby bringing up entire bottle

[Strawberry06]

Had to switch my baby to formula.

We've been giving him 9oz bottles in stages so he'll drink some then I'll burp him drink more then burp but then when he's finished and I burp him he brings up what looks like the entire bottle!

It doesn't happen with every bottle but quite often. Then I don't know whether he'll still be hungry and to give him another bottle.

Is it just normal reflux? He's just over a week old.

Sound like your over feeding him. What's his weight? He should be having about 2oz in his bottle

If baby is a week old then a 9oz bottle is far too much for them. Their stomach will be tiny!

NHS website states at week old stomach is size of a walnut, and cold hold 45-60 ml

9oz sounds like a lot, what weight is your baby. Babies usually bring up surplus milk. I’m sure at a week old I wasn’t feeding anywhere near that amount.

Yep. 9oz is far too much and that’s why he is being sick. For reference, I would give DS 3oz every 4 ish hours and that worked well for us. Little and more often is the key!

9oz is huge for a week old baby, please follow the recommended volumes on the formula box. However these are just a guide, most important is to pace feed. This means letting baby latch on to the teat when they are ready not pushing it in, having baby upright, having the teat only half full of milk, stopping when baby wants. Never push baby to finish a bottle. Pace feeding helps baby dictate how hungry they are and should help avoid overfeeding/triggering excess reflux.

Agree with others OP

2oz at a week old is plenty

My 20 month old can only take 6oz without being sick

I agree with the others. Look up some videos on how to pace feed and make smaller bottles. Mine (now 20 months never drank more than 7 oz at a time and didn’t drink 4 oz at a time until about 3 months.

Please read the directions on the box. Who has told you to feed him 9oz?! That's huge!

9oz is far too much! Most babies never have bottles that big even when they are at the stage of moving onto solids. Mine had about 3oz at that age, I’d usually make 4oz because that’s the smallest amount the perfect prep machine does but they wouldn’t finish it. I’d start with giving 3oz about every 3 hours but don’t push him to take more than he wants. If he needs to suck between feeds then give him a dummy. If you think he has reflux then see the GP.

My 7 week old doesn't have 9oz even, it's way too much! He has 4oz max at this age..

Sorry all I got completely mixed up with my measurements! He's currently having 3oz! (90ml) but sometimes it doesn't seem enough for him and he's wanting more!

Ha that makes a lot more sense! How frequently are they feeding? I was making 4oz bottles at this age, and they were not quite finishing them, probably having like 3.5oz. As a rough guide it’s 2.5oz of formula per lb of bodyweight in a 24 hour period, so, for example, a 9lb baby would need 22.5 ounces total, so that could be 3.75 ounces every 4 hours. Babies do have a strong sucking reflex though so if it’s that you might want to try a dummy. If they’re actually hungry the dummy won’t placate them so there’s no harm in trying one.

@InTheRainOnATrain he was 8lb11 when born and when weighed on Monday he'd only lost 1%

We were thinking he probably needs a dummy so we'll try that.

We thought he was guzzling down too quick which is why we introduced breaks in the feed to burp him but it's sometimes on the last burp he brings the entire contents back up.

Then I worry he won't settle cause he'll be hungry!

One more thing- it always looks like far much more spit up, which can be quite normal with a burp, than it actually is. If you can mop it up with a single muslin then it’s not even close the whole bottle!

How often is he feeding? When you work out how much he’s having in 24 hours is it roughly 2.5 times his weight?

During the night it's probably every 2-3 hours. During the day is a different story as he sleeps a lot and generally falls asleep after whatever feed he has.

I think a dummy is a good idea @Strawberry06 . If he sucks and falls asleep you'll know he just wanted to suck for comfort. If he spits it out and cries again after not very long you'll know he is genuinely hungry.