hungrier baby formula
Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me?
My baby is nearly 4 weeks old and has been having 4oz of Aptamil during the day and 5oz during the night. He was going every 4 hours in between his day feeds however, he is now demanding to be fed every 3 to 3 1/2 hours and when he feeds his belly sounds totally empty!
I have tried to give him 5oz during the day but he can never seem to finish the last ounce so I was wondering if changing his milk to the hungrier baby formula would satisfy him more?
He was 9lbs 3 at birth and was 11lb 1 when weighed last week, the Health Visitor said his weight gain was fine, and as he is quite a big baby I'm not too worried about him getting fat I am just not too sure if the hungrier baby formula is OK to give him at such a young age.
If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it.
Many thanks
Rachel
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all my babies had the hungrier baby milk, however my youngest son always fed every three hours day/night until he was weaned so may just want more milk? one feed in the night is pretty good for 4weeks. maybe try giveing feeds more frequently instead at first?
We went onto hungry baby milk at 5 weeks and Bronwyn was feeding every 2 hours or so at that point. It was the best thing I could have done!!!
Thank you all for your advice. I'm going to continue with his normal milk for a bit longer and just feed him more regularly to see how he goes. When he falls asleep during his daytime feeds I've started to wake him up by changing his nappy and then he finishes his 5oz bottle.
I've still got 2 boxes of normal milk for him to finish so I'll see how he goes before deciding, i can see that Max is clearly not as hungry as some of your babies so I wont rush him.
Thanks again for your advice, I feel much better now.
Rachel x
my son is five weeks old, he was 7lb 6oz when born, and is now over 11lb, and very long(tall) , he's taking 6-7oz every 2 1/2-3 hours, think we need to switch to hungery formula, my eldest son also had hungery formula. he's now 13 years old and 6'3"!!!!!
Our health visitor said that you should only use the first baby formula - not move on to hungrier baby or the follow on stuff. Has anyone else had this advice?!!