How much milk should be taken by a 5 months old baby per day?Answer it from real life experiance?

Question

I have a 5 months old daughter.I am a first time mum.Thats why i need to compare with the daily intake of milk for a 5 months old baby.

Answer 1

The chart that my pediatrician gave me says that babies 4-6mos old get 32oz. a day. You have to realize of course that it also depends on the baby.

Answer 2

Baby's feeding habits and intake is probably the number 1 concern for new parents.
Firstly, the very simple answer is that there are no hard and fast rules on how much milk your baby ought to be taking at 5 months of age. If it were that easy none of us would have ever worried about this topic.
Secondly, it would seem that you are caring enough about your baby to come online and ask other people. This would suggest that you are sensible, interested, and your baby is your number priority. I'm sure with all of these factors your baby will thrive and you would seek the help of a professional if anything was amiss.
Now for the boring bits!
Be very careful of the uneducated, unprofessional and experiential advice you will gain from a site such as this.
Recent guidelines from the World Health Organisation state that milk (breast or bottle) should be the sole nutrient for children under 6 months of age. This is reflected in the advice you will receive from NHS staff such as midwives and health visitors.
The research that concluded this looked at many factors.
Before 6 months of age, babies stomachs are unable to digest most of the constituents of solid food, even including baby rice and pureed fruit.
Also, there now seems to be a link between obesity and the early introduction of solids to a baby's diet.
It is now known that the first 3 years years of food intake is the most important, and often causes the most damage to a baby/toddler in later life. Heart attacks at 50 can indeed be attributed to the diet of children during the 1st three years in some cases. The first 6 months of life are arguably the most important of all.
As a midwife and mother of 4, I understand your concerns and the difficulties faced in determining the correct intake of milk intake for your baby girl.
It can be very hard prior to weaning to encourage an ever hungry baby to settle in the day and sleep at night.
Feeding on demand is the rule of thumb.
If your baby doesn't seem very hungry and you feel she is not eating enough, take her along to the baby clinic to be weighed and chat to the health visitor about your concerns.
If it is excessive eating that you are worried about the same plan of action should help.
Most importantly, it is this professional advice that ought to give you the most reassurance. If there is a problem it will be your health visitor or GP that can spot it and deal with it.
I know it can be frustrating when you want a definitive answer about your child, but unfortunately there aren't any.
They are all so different in many ways.
Some weigh more and want to eat all day, some are tiny and still want to eat all day, and vice versa.
Rather than look for an answer about milk intake, rule out any signs of a problem.
Is she gaining weight?
Where does she plot on the centile chart?
Does she pass urine and open her bowels regularly?
Does she have times during the day where she is content after her feed?
Is she vomitting? etc.
These will be more likely to give you the best ideas as to her own individual requirements of milk, and also will hopefully reassure you that you are doing everything right!
I hope that this is helpful in some way, and you can put any unfounded concerns out of your mind or seek the help you need if there is a problem.
Until you die you will worry every day about your daughter.
That's a Mum's job!
Good luck and best wishes.

Answer 3

When my now 2 year old was five months old she would typically drink about 24 ounces of breastmilk in 24 hrs, but it's really hard to know for sure, since some of it was expressed milk in a bottle and some of it was directly from me. That's probably a bit on the low end, but still within the normal range. I started her on baby cereal with banana at 5-1/2 months. She has always been very light for her age, but she's super tall, healthy, energetic, so I stopped worrying about how much she was eating and just tried to make sure that whatever she did eat was as healthy as possible.

Answer 4

My daughter was born on 10th April so at 5 months, she is currently drinking 7oz. She also eats baby rice which I use 1oz of the 7oz bottle to make up the rice. She has a minimum of four feeds per day (maximum 5), sleeps contently throughout the night and wakes between 7.30am - 9.00am.

Although my daughter has 7oz, sometimes the quantity of her feeds vary.

Each baby is different, check to see how much ounces your baby drinks and the frequency and work with that, as the milk recommendation on the formula box is only a guideline, not mandatory.

Good luck..

Answer 5

It says on the packet how much doesn't it? Isn't it 21 oz per day once they go onto solid foods so you do 3 x 7oz bottles?
Mine were both on solids very early, so we were on 21oz from about 3 months, but baby needs breakfast and bottle say 7am, snack (toast + water) at 10ish, lunch and bottle at 12ish, snack (biscuit + water) at 2ish, tea about 5ish ( I used to give water/ juice) and then bottle about 7pm before bed, maybe yoghurt as well if starving, should sleep till morn.
If baby doesn't want all that, don't panic, some don't eat much some eat loads, I had one of each. If they are sleeping thru the night, they are content and gaining a little weight everything is fine. If not sleeping or gaining weight , speak to Health Visitor. Sorry if you are breast feeding by the way and I put bottle, I just did bottles

Answer 6

My 5 month old drinks 5 ozof formula every three hours .

I still feed her once at night as she doesnt drink much during the day that makes it 6 times in 24 hrs.

But do not worry as every baby is unique, as long as she is happy and healthy .
Her appetite will increase in a couple of months, just make sure she has plenty of space to play and be active as this will make her tired and hungry.

Answer 7

My baby is 5 months old. He takes about 24 oz a day. I know its not a lot, but that's all he wants. He takes 4 6-oz bottles a day. He sleeps through the night-- so no extra milk there.

I can't wait to read your responses:)

Answer 8

This is a very important piece of advice, don't compare your baby to others, if you start now it will carry on throughout life. If your five month old is gaining weight and appears happy and healthy, then you have no need to worry about how much she is taking per feed. All babies are different, my two babies were completely different, one fed as much as I could give him and my daughter just drank enough to keep her going. Do yourself a favour and relax, and don't worry about what other baby's are or not doing. It will only get worse. My son walked at 9months old whereas my daughter walked at 11months. You just can't compare!

Mum of two and qualified nursery nurse of 10 years.

Answer 9

BY THE TIME YOUR BABY IS 5 MONTHS OLD YOU SHOULD HAVE AN IDEA HOW MUCH INTAKE YOUR BABY IS TAKING...MY DAUGHTERS HAVE JUST HAD BABIES CLOSE TOGETHER ONE WAS JUST OVER 6LB IN WEIGHT ONE WAS 9LB 14 OZ THEY ARE BOTH THE SAME AGE BUT THE BIGGER ONE TAKES 7 OZ'S EVERY 4 HOURS THE SMALLER BORN TAKES ABOUT 5OZ BOTTLES BUT MORE OFTEN..PLEASE DONT COMPARE WITH OTHER BABIES NEEDS, IF YOUR BABY IS CONTENT ON WHAT YOU ARE GIVING AND THERE IS NO WEIGHT LOSS THEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING

Answer 10

If you are bottle feeding your baby with formula or breast milk, she will probably be drinking about 5 bottles per day with between 5-8 ounces depending on her weight. If you are breast feeding, she should also be nursing for nutrition about 5 times a day, but may be also nursing for comfort as well.

Answer 11

Our 5 month old takes 5 ounces at a time in 5 feedings.

She was a 33 week gestation preemie though... Her adjusted age is actually 4 months...

Hope this helps!