How much milk?

To begin with your baby needs to feed little and often and may need to feed as frequently as every one or two hours and will drink about 50ml (1 to 2 fl oz). By two or three weeks your baby may settle into a pattern of three hours between feeds and may take about 100ml (3½ fl oz).

When you make up a bottle, make up about 30ml (1 fl oz) more than your baby usually drinks. When she starts taking all the milk in the bottle, increase the amount of milk by a further 30ml (1 fl oz). Eventually your baby will take a full 8 fl oz bottle.