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Baby Feeding Chart Printable

A feed log you set up yourself — breast, bottle or both, millilitres or ounces, as many rows as fit — printed on one page with a reference strip along the bottom telling you what is ordinary at your baby's age, and who says so.

No account, no email, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

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Feeding

Breast gets a left, a right and a minutes box; the bottle gets an amount. Nothing here converts one into the other, because nothing honestly can.

Age, for the reference strip
Rows on the sheet
16
A newborn day is often twelve feeds or more. Fewer rows means taller boxes.

What is ordinary at this age

    Columns

    The log estimates nothing; the strip quotes. Everything above the strip is an empty box waiting for what actually happened. Everything on the strip is a published figure with the publisher named beside it on the paper, and every one of them is a range rather than a target — the American Academy of Pediatrics is explicit that babies regulate their own intake day to day and that no book or website can tell you precisely how much or how often your own baby needs to be fed.

    Breastfeeding gets no millilitres here. You cannot measure a breast, supply moves with demand, and the honest answer to how much is to feed whenever she seems hungry. What is checkable is the other end: around six wet nappies a day from a few days after birth with clear or pale urine, at least one dirty nappy a day in the early weeks, at least four wet a day treated as generally reassuring, and steady weight gain at the routine weigh-ins. If the count drops well below that, if weight gain stalls, if feeds are being refused or your baby is hard to rouse, call your pediatrician or health visitor.

    Nothing here is medical advice and this page cannot see your baby. A chart is a record you take to an appointment, not a substitute for one. And whatever the feeding looks like, the sleeping half stays the same: on their back, on a firm flat surface, in a cot clear of blankets, pillows and soft toys, with nothing weighted on or over her — including after a big evening feed, when the temptation to leave her propped is strongest.

    How this is worked out

    1. The log half of the sheet does no arithmetic. It is columns and boxes: the time, which side or how much, how long it took, whether any of it came back up, and a line for anything worth remembering. Wet and dirty nappies can be added as two narrow columns beside the feeds, because feeds and output are read together rather than separately.
    2. The reference strip is the part with a claim in it, so every figure on it is quoted rather than compiled. From the American Academy of Pediatrics: breastfed newborns usually nurse every two hours, so ten to twelve sessions in 24 hours is the norm; formula is no more than about 1 to 2 ounces a feed in the first week, 3 to 4 ounces every 3 to 4 hours by the end of the first month, and 6 to 8 ounces at each of four or five feeds by six months, with a ceiling of about 32 ounces or 960 millilitres in 24 hours. From the NHS: around six wet nappies a day from a few days after the birth, and at least one dirty one a day in the early weeks.
    3. The strip changes with the age band you pick, and it prints the attribution on the paper next to the figures rather than only on this page. A sheet lives on a fridge for a month; a caveat that stayed on the website is a caveat nobody has.
    4. Breastfeeding gets no volumes, on the strip or anywhere else. You cannot measure a breast, supply moves with demand, and the AAP's own answer to how much a breastfed baby needs is to feed whenever she seems hungry. What the strip gives you instead is the checkable signal — nappies and weight gain — and the row where the log records how long a feed lasted rather than how much went in.
    5. The sheet is drawn at true page size and printed untouched, in A4 or US Letter. Set the margins to None in the print dialog: the margin is already part of the sheet, and a second one added by the browser is what pushes a blank page out behind it.
    Questions

    The short answers

    The American Academy of Pediatrics puts it as feeding whenever the baby seems hungry rather than by the clock, and notes that breastfed newborns usually nurse about every two hours — so somewhere around ten to twelve feeds in 24 hours is ordinary in the early weeks. Formula-fed babies tend to go a little longer between feeds. Those are descriptions of what usually happens, not a target to hit, and the AAP is explicit that no book or website can tell you precisely how much or how often your own baby needs to be fed. The log is how you find out what yours does.
    For formula the AAP publishes per-feed amounts by age, and the chart prints them: no more than about 1 to 2 ounces a feed in the first week, 3 to 4 ounces every 3 to 4 hours by the end of the first month, and 6 to 8 ounces at each of four or five feeds by six months, with the daily total usually capped around 32 ounces or 960 millilitres. For breastfeeding there is no volume answer and this sheet does not invent one. If you want the weight-based route as well, the milk intake calculator on this site runs both published methods side by side and says out loud when they disagree.
    By what comes out and by the scales, which is exactly why the nappy columns sit next to the feed columns on this sheet. The NHS looks for around six wet nappies a day from a few days after birth, with clear or pale yellow urine, and at least one dirty nappy a day in the early weeks. The AAP treats at least four wet nappies a day as generally reassuring and notes a newborn may pee anywhere between every one to three hours and four to six times a day. If the count drops well below that, if weight gain stalls, or if your baby is hard to rouse for feeds, call your pediatrician or health visitor — that is a judgement about your own baby and nothing here is medical advice.
    A column for it is on by default because it is the thing parents most often want to compare across days and least reliably remember. Small amounts after feeds are extremely common in the first months and usually mean nothing at all; what is worth a phone call is a change — forceful vomiting, blood or bile, refusing feeds, no weight gain, or a baby who seems unwell with it. A tick in a box for a week is a far better thing to take to an appointment than a memory of "quite a lot, I think".
    That is one of the better uses for it. Print two, keep one at home and send one out, and both sides are filling in the same columns instead of swapping messages. If you are handing over for a few hours rather than a full day, the babysitter information sheet on this site carries the routine and the emergency block as well, and the two sheets are designed to be printed together.

    Where this comes from

    1. American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2024). How Often and How Much Should Your Baby Eat?. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/feeding-nutrition/Pages/How-Often-and-How-Much-Should-Your-Baby-Eat.aspx
    2. American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2022). Amount and Schedule of Baby Formula Feedings. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/formula-feeding/Pages/Amount-and-Schedule-of-Formula-Feedings.aspx
    3. American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2024). Baby's First Days: Bowel Movements and Urination. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/Pages/babys-first-days-bowel-movements-and-urination.aspx
    4. NHS (2024). Bottle feeding advice. https://www.nhs.uk/baby/breastfeeding-and-bottle-feeding/bottle-feeding/advice/
    5. NHS (2023). Formula milk: common questions. https://www.nhs.uk/baby/breastfeeding-and-bottle-feeding/bottle-feeding/formula-milk-questions/
    6. American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) (2022). How to Keep Your Sleeping Baby Safe: AAP Policy Explained. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/sleep/Pages/A-Parents-Guide-to-Safe-Sleep.aspx
    7. NHS (2025). Reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). https://www.nhs.uk/baby/caring-for-a-newborn/reduce-the-risk-of-sudden-infant-death-syndrome/

    Every link above was opened and read when this page was last updated. Snuggle is not affiliated with any of these organisations and none of them has reviewed this page. Nothing here is medical advice.

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    The app this site is for

    Snuggle does this with your baby’s own pattern.

    This page works from an age band, because an age band is all a web page knows about you. Snuggle starts from the same bands and then blends them with what your baby actually did today — how long she lasted, when she went down, how the last nap ran — and shows on the face of the ring how sure it is. Early estimates say they are early.

    It logs sleep, feeds, nappies and growth in one tap on a dim red screen, and every caregiver in the household is on the same timeline in their own account. The arithmetic runs on the phone, on your baby’s own history. There are no AI features in it.

    In development for iPhone and Android. Not released yet — when it is, it will be on this site.

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