The amount of milk for infants and young children should be fed on demand, and the standard of the amount of milk for infants and young children of different months of age will be different, and adjusted at any time according to the newborn’s state of mind, defecation, urination, and so on. Adjustments can be made to the amount and timing of breastfeeding according to different daily situations. Breastfed babies can generally be breastfed on demand as long as they sleep soundly, have normal bowel movements and normal weight gain, the pictures are for reference only.
1. If it is a newborn baby, within 3 days, 15 ml each time; within 7 days, 25 ml each time; within 15 days, 60 ml each time, must be fed on demand.
2. For infants and toddlers between 15 days and one month old, if digestion is normal, the daily milk intake per kilogram of body weight ranges from 60 to 120 ml.
3. For infants and toddlers between one month and two months of age, the amount of milk consumed should be gradually increased according to body weight, with a frequency of 6 to 7 times a day, and the amount of milk consumed per meal should be around 120 to 150 milliliters.
4. For infants and toddlers between 2 and 4 months of age, the frequency of milk intake should be between 5 and 6 times a day, and the amount of milk intake should be between 150 and 180 milliliters per meal.
After 6 months of age, when babies add complementary foods, they need to adjust their daily milk intake according to the amount of complementary foods.