How much should I be feeding my newborn baby?

How much will my newborn eat at one feeding?

Let's start with the size of their stomach🤱🏻. (For comparison, an adult's stomach is roughly the size of a softball ⚾). Check out the video and descriptions below.

✅Day 1: 5-7 ml (0.25 oz)
✅Day 3:22-27 ml (0.75-0.9 oz)
✅Day 10: 60-81 oz (2-2.7 oz)
✅0-3 months: 2-3 oz

🗓 Preemies born between 24-26 weeks: feed 2 ml every 6-8 hrs
🗓 Preemies born at 26-28 weeks: feed 2 ml every 4-6 hrs
🗓 Preemies born at 28-32 weeks: feed 2 ml every 4 hrs

Pro Tips:
🔎 Look for hunger cues (Licking or smacking lips, opening mouth, sticking out tongue, rooting, trying to suck on anything)
💧For exclusively breastfed babies, they may want to eat 8 to 15 times in a 24 hour period. This is normal.
🎯 For full term babies (39 weeks +), anticipate a growth spurt around day 8/9/10 as your baby’s rapidly stomach grows in size.

You've got this. 🙌 And we've got you.💪 Need help now? Contact our team of postpartum doulas and infant feeding specialists today.

❤️ Kathleen, Boston Area Doulas

About the Author: Kathleen Stern is a certified labor and postpartum doula and founder of Boston Area Doulas.