Milk amounts, back at work.

[Skadiver13]

Milk amounts? I am back at work now and so no longer BF 7 times a day. Delaney refuses a bottle from my morning nanny so has 3 bottles at day care.
9,12,3. I get home around 5 and feed her by 530/6 but she only eats for 4/5 min.  Then again at 645 before  bed for 2/3 min  Again only a small amount. Then a DF at 10, and she wakes about 4.

Currently doing
4am (she wakes for it)
Bottles 9,12,3 (was 4oz upped it to 5)
530 (1/2 feed)
645 (1/2 feed)
10

I did the DF at 11 and i had to wake her at 5 to feed her before I left. So my question is if she can sleep that long do I drop a feed? I don't know that she's getting enough during the day? Id like to drop the  DF and sleep more but she does take a full feed at that time.

[*Ali*]

It is of course up to you but I wouldn't drop the DF if she is still having a NF and you want to get rid of that. If however you prefer to just do the NF then you can certainly try.

If she is having 15oz from the 3 bottles in total then I'd say that plus 3 other BFs would be plenty. 19-30oz is the normal range for daily intake and average (for a 1-6mo is about 25oz. I'm sure she could get that from all her feeds.

[Skadiver13]

So just keep it the way it is I guess? I did forget to mention that a few times I have fallen asleep before the dream feed and not woken up and she still slept until 4 o'clock. I guess I'd rather get rid of the dream feed before the middle of the night.

[*Ali*]

Drop the DF then if that works better for you and she doesn't wake for it.