500ml? ...I have never seen that advice. Interesting how different countries do different things! I don't think I've really even seen advice that if formula feeding, one should go to/past a particular time point (other than that complementary foods shouldn't start before 6 months, or if you have an old fashioned health nurse, before 4 months).
with my researchers hat on: what you get when pumping, and what the baby takes can be quite different. Very little is known about why the ratio of at the breast vs at the pump varies, and one of the researchers I work with is trying to work out what can be done better with pumps to improve.
with my parent hat on: at seven months, middle child flat out refused to take any liquid from a bottle. So, feed at daycare before I went off to work, feed at daycare when I collected zer, bedtime, however many night feeds. There were no negative effects. This child (now teen) would eat pretty much anything anywhere. And zie was a happy child.
tl; dr - yes, you should stop stressing. Baby is getting enough, or would be complaining.
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Date: 2015-10-20 03:16 pm (UTC)with my researchers hat on: what you get when pumping, and what the baby takes can be quite different. Very little is known about why the ratio of at the breast vs at the pump varies, and one of the researchers I work with is trying to work out what can be done better with pumps to improve.
with my parent hat on: at seven months, middle child flat out refused to take any liquid from a bottle. So, feed at daycare before I went off to work, feed at daycare when I collected zer, bedtime, however many night feeds. There were no negative effects. This child (now teen) would eat pretty much anything anywhere. And zie was a happy child.
tl; dr - yes, you should stop stressing. Baby is getting enough, or would be complaining.