How much to feed a 2 month old?

Question

My daughter just had a baby last month.She asks many of her peers advice who have given birth recently also! So you could imagine all the advice she has been givin!! One told her that she feeds her 2 month old daughter 8 1/2 ounces of formula before she puts her to sleep..so she will sleep all night! My question is ..Isnt this way too much at this age..Not to mention causing problems later on? Oh the baby weighed 7 lbs 2 ozs full term! thank you!

Answer 1

If you force feed an infant they will throw it up. My pediatricians guideline and what I did with both of my babies is feed them what they want.

When they slow down sucking and don't appear to want more I put a pacifier in their mouth to give them the sucking they may need sporadically after a feeding and prevent the throwing up of formula.

When my baby girl was a month old she started throwing up most of her feedings and that is when the doctor told me I was giving her too much and to give her the pacifier.

My baby girl drank around 6 ounces at a time when she was about 8 months and my son was only at 4 ounces at over a year. Each one is different.

Your daughter needs to discuss this with her pediatrician not friends. My mother in law insisted we give our 3 day old son water and our doctor actually yelled at my husband for the 1 ounce he gave him.

Check with the doctor!

Answer 2

Babies will eat until they are full and if they eat too much they will throw up! I had to learn that the hard way. I am a first time mom and everytime he cried I tried a bottle! Lol


I know people say dont do this, but a lot of moms do. I put about a tablespoon or beechnut rice cereal in his bottle( depending on how much the bottle is.) I used it in a six ounce and it just made it a little bit thicker. People say it is a myth that they will sleep through the night, but some babies it works on some not. The most sleep I got was five hours in between his feedings until he was about 3 1/2 months. He had no reactions from the cereal, and I still do it now and oddly enough if I dont give him cereal before bed he wakes in the middle of the night for a feeding and he is six months old and has been sleeping through the night like I said since he was 3 1/2 months old. So give it a try if you want.

Good Luck

Answer 3

i think 8 and 1/2 oz is too much. it's not good to force a baby to drink that much.

my son now 3 months is taking 5 oz every 5 hours. He usually will sleep thru the night after bath.

u can advice ur daughter to give her baby a warm bath at night then do some baby massage then put the baby to sleep. it really helps.

if the baby cannot sleep thru the night, then sweet mummy have to make some sacrifices to wake up and feed.

congrats of being a granny ^^.

Answer 4

My first child would eat as much as you would give her by 3 months old and we had to limit the amount we gave her at one sitting. My second child, at 4 months old, takes 3-4 oz every 4 hours during the day then "tanks up" on 5 oz before bed. As some others said, you can't force a baby to eat when they're not hungry and they will throw it up if they get themselves overfull. Seems like an awful lot to me, though.

Answer 5

wow, my son is only 3 months and he never eats that much in one sitting. But I guess all babies are different, so maybe your daughter's just likes a bit more. My son eats (now at 3 months) 4 oz. every 3 or 4 hours during the day, and his before bed bottle is sometimes 5 or 6 oz. hope that helps a bit!

Answer 6

As long as the baby is sleeping through the night and mainly not getting sick from it no ..you have to think of it this way if the baby woker up in the middle of the night you would end up feeding the lil one another 4 ozs so it does add up to 8 ...

Answer 7

Well, I always feed until they fell asleep or got fool. I breast feed. My kids wouldn't take a bottle, so I am not sure how much they ate at a time. I would say feed them until they are fool. It cannot hurt them. Hope this helped.

Answer 8

If thats too much for your granddaughter, she will just throw it back up, or wont drink it, you cant force a baby to eat if they arent hungry, just doesnt work.