Marla, if you take into consideration the size of the newborn's stomach, , a 1-day infant has about a 5-10ml stomach capacity. If they are "supposed to" nurse 6 times/day, that's about 30-60ml in 24 hours, give or take. By 3 days, the capacity increases to about 25-30ml, x 8 feedings/day is about 240ml/day. By 10 days, the stomach capacity has grown to about 60ml (or 2 ounces). Thinking again about the nursing 8-10 times in 24 hours, that's about480-600ml in 24 hours.

No where near the 2 ounce "nurser bottles" they give in the hospital! No wonder babies are throwing up all the time, and suffering from that new onslaught of GERD. Hey, this is a great education topic for a paper I have to write!

Best wishes,
Sam Doak


---- MARLA NEWMARK <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am trying to find out how many ccs a healthy, term newborn needs per feeding and  per 24 hour period for both the bottle feeder and the breastfeeder.
>
> Also, for any of you who are hospital based how do handle mothers/babies that are doing "both".  Of course we try educating the families.  To say the least it is frustrating to try to latch a baby who has been given 30-60 cc for numerous feedings.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Marla
>

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