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

My baby, who is over four months old, has started to grow teeth. Many mothers who have poor breast milk supply will feed their children some milk powder. Babies don’t eat as much as adults, and they won’t express when they are full. We can only rely on mothers to make a judgment on the amount of food they eat. Let us now find out how much milk a baby over four months old drinks.

1. It is not advisable to add other milk substitutes and complementary foods to babies who are breastfed at this time. Breastfeeding is still recommended. As for whether the amount of breast milk can meet the baby's needs, it can still be measured by weighing. If the baby's weight can increase by about 20 grams a day, and is weighed once every 10 days, with an increase of 200 grams each time, it means that breastfeeding can continue without the addition of any milk substitute. When the baby's weight increases by only about 10 grams per day on average, or when he often cries due to hunger at night, you can add one more breastfeeding.

Generally speaking, the baby's breastfeeding frequency during this month is regular. Except at night, he only needs to be fed 5 times during the day, with an interval of 4 hours between each feeding, and only one breastfeeding in the middle of the night.

2. For babies who are fed with milk, it is still recommended to continue feeding them with milk, with the amount to be fed being 200 ml each time, 5 times a day. If you feed the baby 6 times a day, the amount each time should not exceed 200 ml, 180 ml is more appropriate. The total daily milk volume should be kept within 1000 ml. If it exceeds 1000 ml, the baby may easily become obese, and some may even lose appetite for milk.

Anorexia of milk refers to a baby around 3 months old who used to like drinking milk, but suddenly doesn’t like it one day. The mother is very worried and tries every means to get the baby to eat, but the more anxious the mother is, the less the baby eats and just cries while looking at the bottle.

This situation often occurs because the baby has previously consumed too much milk and gained weight too quickly, gaining more than 40 grams a day. This is because the baby's ability to absorb milk increases after 3 months. Absorbing too much milk increases the burden on the kidneys and liver, resulting in an aversion to milk. This is not a disease, but a manifestation of the baby's own self-regulation and self-defense function.

If your baby shows this condition, don't worry. You can try changing the milk powder, or diluting the milk, or letting the milk cool down before feeding. You can also try another pacifier. If this doesn't work, you can secretly put the pacifier into the baby's mouth before going to bed at night and feed the baby when he is half asleep. After about ten days of careful care, the baby will definitely like milk again.

3. Add complementary foods such as vegetable puree, carrot puree, and jam to supplement vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B, vitamin D and inorganic salts, and start feeding with a spoon.

The above is an introduction to the amount of milk that babies over four months old should drink. In order to balance the baby's development, breastfeeding has certain limitations after all. You can give your baby some fruit puree. Supplement the vitamins needed by the baby. But don't eat too much to avoid symptoms of malnutrition.