My lo is 9 weeks, on a roughly 3 hr easy. (Eats at 6,9,12,3,5,7,10 with one nf.) I just went back to work this past Monday. I'm very lucky that my mom is keeping him, and I'm a teacher, so he only gets two bottles, and I can be there for his 3:00 and bf.
So day 1, I left 4 ounces in each bottle, thinking he wouldn't finish it. He gobbled them down and was angry it ended.
So day 2, I left 4.5, same thing.
Day 3 I left 5, he finished them off and wasn't angry, but my mom said he would have eaten more if there was more.
This seems entirely too much to me. From what I understand, babies take 19-32 oz a day. So if he's at the upper end needing 32, he's taking 1/3 of that from a bottle in two feedings. Whenever we give a bottle, it's a struggle to get 3 oz, but we mainly try at df.
So really I'm looking for reassurance that 5oz is normal, do maybe it isn't, and he's over eating bc its a bottle?