How much breast milk does a four-month-old baby eat?

Everyone knows that breast milk is the best food for children. If possible, feed the baby breast milk. However, many new parents have no experience in taking care of babies, so they often cannot control the amount of milk the baby drinks. They are afraid that the baby will not be full and will go hungry. This is especially true for babies who are breastfed. For babies who are fed with formula, they don’t want to know how much the baby drinks each time. In fact, as the baby gets older, the amount of milk he drinks will also increase.

How much breast milk should a four month old baby consume?

Generally speaking, if the baby is exclusively breastfed, complementary foods should be started when the baby is six months old. If the baby is mainly fed with formula milk after birth, complementary foods can be started when the baby is four months old to allow the baby to adapt to complementary foods as soon as possible. Therefore, four to six months is the best time to add complementary foods to babies, but during this period breast milk or dairy products should still be the main food for babies. The daily milk intake is about 600-800 ml, not more than 1000 ml.

In addition to having certain requirements on the amount of milk that babies drink, mothers are generally required to train their babies to develop the habit of regular breastfeeding, generally 5 times a day, with an interval of 4 hours. In fact, the above-mentioned four-month-old baby's daily milk intake of about 600-800 ml is only a general level. In fact, the baby's milk intake is often related to many factors, and is closely related to the baby's growth. Therefore, the specific value of the baby's milk intake should be determined based on the baby's various indicators.

How much milk is normal for a four-month-old baby

How much milk is normal for a four-month-old baby to drink? In fact, when it comes to the amount of milk a baby drinks, it is often difficult for us to simply come up with a specific value for one aspect. Generally speaking, a four-month-old baby drinks about 600-800 ml of milk per day, not more than 1000 ml. However, four-month-old babies generally enter the period of adding complementary foods, so sometimes it is inevitable that the amount of milk they drink is reduced due to complementary food factors, so mothers don’t need to worry too much.

Generally speaking, babies usually have two physiological periods of milk aversion, and April is one of them. If the baby falls into the milk aversion period at this time, it will also affect the amount of milk intake, so we usually need to look at many factors to see whether the baby is really in the milk aversion period.