help dd wont drink bottles

[Jyates]

Hi my dd is 24 weeks old I have been weaning her for 6 weeks now and this week have started her on 3 full meals aday. How many bottles shold she be drinking a day and how many ounces as im struggling to get 3 bottles down her and will only have 5 ounce. Also what size meals shold she be having at dinner time she has 2 ice cubes of veg and two of fruit and tea time 3 cubes of each and she seems to finish them off pretty quick

[rosie and joe's mummy]

not much help but my DD is being the same about her breastfeeds now she's on solids too.

we're on 3 meals a day as well this week. (and she's also 24 weeks)

she gets much more food than that though!!  she's having the same amount of cubes but also mixed with baby rice and milk, which is a way i thought i could get more into her.

she also has a petit filous every day since yesterday as my doctor suggested it would be a good way to get more calcium and energy into her. he said dairy products like that at this age are fine, more so if your baby is bottle fed as it's as processed from being cows milk as bottled milk is, so not to worry.

rosie never seems full, people keep telling me she'll let me know when she's had enough food, but she doesn't!

i can't help with how many ounces etc, but you can just start mixing the milk in with her solids to get it down her. don't worry too much though i think people sometimes can be far too obsessed with knowing exactly how much their babies drink1 i have no idea i cna't measure the boobies!  if you know she's taking plenty of calcium and calories in with her solids you should be ok.

[rosie and joe's mummy]

oh and for breakfast she has baby porridge made with milk as opposed to waterlike it says on the packet, and mixed with a couple of cubes of fruit.


when they are weaned at 6 months ish you don't have to worry as much about only giving tiny meals as you would if you weaned at 4 months. you can start off obviously with only tiny meals but they have a much bigger tummy and can take bigger meals quite quickly!

[tylersmommy]

Number of bottles per day doesn't really matter. What does matter is how many ounces she drinks per day, since formula or breastmilk should be her main source of nutrition for several more months. At her age, she should be drinking 26-32 oz of formula per day. Can you post her daily routine (bottle/solids times and amounts, naptimes, etc) so we can see how to help? Thanks!

[Jyates]

this was her routine till saturday first thing 7 o clock she has a bottle but only drinks four/five oz with breakfast such as baby rice/weetabix

then 9ish she has a sleep for 1hr 11 o clock has a bottle 6oz

between 12 and 1 she has dinner (which was fruit puree 2 cubes

then 3ish another bottle 6oz may have a nap 30 mins to 1 hr

between 4/5 has tea 3 cubes of veg and 2 cubes of pudding may have another nap


7ish has a bottle and then bedtime

this was her routine then saturday I startedgiving her veg and fruit for dinner

she now does not have morning bottle and i struggle to get bottle down her before dinner rest has stayed the same hth

[tylersmommy]

Have you tried cutting back on her solids? She may be filling up on those and not having enough of an appetite for bottles.

[taylorbean]

My dd did the same thing at about the same age. What I found really helped to get all the ounces in is dropping a feed. She was taking about three to four oz. with four to five bottles a day. I dropped her late morning bottle and she all of a sudden started taking in about seven to eight oz. in three to four bottles a day. Also to make up for any lack of milk in bottles, I mixed the formula in cereals and food to sneak in an another 2 oz. here and there. It ended up she was doing about 27 oz up from 15 oz. and now she takes 8 oz in three bottles a day, sometimes an extra one for a df, depending on schedule during the day.