Cry cry and more :(

[cosmicangel007]

It's heart renching to hear my DD cry after every feed.
She's 4 months old today and recently her time inbetween feeds have been shorter and shorter and she still cries. She gets about 24oz a day in 5 or 6 bottles.
I'm slowly adding a little to each feed in hopes that this will help.
I know it's advised to always have more in the bottle than she'll drink but honestly I think if I put 10oz in each she would drink it.  For some reason I've never had either of my LO's refuse the liquid gold (BM).

During the day I can get about 3.5-4 hours inbetween feeds
The early evening is our longest stretch of 5 hours
Then from 2am-6am there about it's 2.5-3 hours between.

I'd you need my exact E.A.S.Y routine I'll have to get to my computer.

Anyone else have LO cry after every bottle?
I'm So Sad

[Erin M]

There's a hugs growth spurt at 4 months -- could it be that?  Is she in any discomfort do you think

[cosmicangel007]

No discomfort that I can tell of.
She's just waking up so randomly and wanting a bottle
I've tried soothing before just offering but it's not been successful

I find it so hard to believe that she drinks 4 oz then 3 hours later drinks 4.75 oz then 3.5 hours another 4.75 as if she's not had anything

[Lolly]

Is she having breast milk in her bottles? If so it's not really unusual to be honest - many breastfed babies can't go 4 hours between feeds at this age because breast milk is digest far more quickly than formula.

I would increase her bottles to 5oz of you can and keep her on a 3 hourly feeds and see if that helps. As Erin said, there is a big growth spurt at 4 months and that could be causing it too.

She probably needs more than 24oz in a day too. How much does she weigh? A rough guide for formula is 2-2.5oz per lb of body weight in 24 hours, I'm not sure if that's the same for breast milk but if she isn't satisfied at the end of a bottle it does sound as if she needs more.

Laura