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Lola
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Bottle Feeding

okay my baby will be two months tomorrow.. she goes through quite a bit of bottles in a day.. I make them 6 oz. and she will sometimes eat 3 oz. or 4 .. or sometimes (rarley ) the whole bottle... its wasting a lot of formula too. idk what to do.. and what about tooth decay what should i kno about proper bottle feeding to prevent that ? also when i feed her somtimes she wants to eat every hour or less just some questions thanks!

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I washed Khylie's gums every night with a warm washcloth.

6oz seems like a lot for a two month old, I'd cut her down to 3 to 4oz, every time she wants to eat, and let her eat as often as she'd like.

The reason? Their stomachs stretch, newborns shouldn't eat a LOT in quanity, but more often until their stomachs can handle the milk.

Khylie was eating 6oz at 6months every 3-4 hours.

At 2 months she was eating 1-3oz every 2-3 hours. At night she'd sleep around 5 hours. And sometimes she'd eat 4oz back then, but not often.

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Yeah, I agree that 60z is alot. My kids were much older before they got to that point.
2-4 oz at a time is safe and if she;s still hungry, make more.

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yeah .. she really doesn't eat all the 6 oz. most of the time usually just 2 or 3.. okay well thank you!