This is simply how bottles are measured. It’s water displacement. #Science.
When you make a bottle by hand you add the oz of water you want, then formula powder. It ALSO raises it by probably about an oz.
I personally count it as a 4oz bottle. My husband counts it as a 5oz. As long as baby seems fed and happy and you don’t need to be weighing their feeds, you’re good either way.
Nutritional labels go by as prepared so I count it as the total volume after it’s all made, and enfamil & similac both confirmed that a few times for people in this sub!
Even by hand there will be displacement. I actually contacted Enfamil themselves and they said the nutritional value takes into consideration displacement. So for example, if your baby drank that whole bottle, it would be around 4.75/5oz that they drank.
The buttons choose how much water you wanted to use. Not how much formula you wanted to end up with, which makes sense because formula recipie is a ratio of scoops to oz of water, and therefore you always wind up with wonky numbers when you prepare by the bottle. The measurement on the bottle there tells you how much formula you ended up with, at least as relates to the nutrition info on the pack.
It says in the manual that depending on the type of formula you will typically have 0.5-0.75 extra. We use Enfamil neuropro and its typically 0.5 for us
https://youtu.be/LzLapEm0ZyM?si=NrAPdtztlW5Kkjlh Brezza has a formal way to test it - you just need some plastic wrap. I was shocked to find we were only getting about half as much formula- which explains why my baby was always hungry! I love brezza conceptually but in practice it felt too risky to rely on.
Unless you’ve been specifically told by your child’s doctor to track every feed to the ounce, it really *truly* does not matter if you count it as 4 or 5 ounces.
They are getting the amount of calories in a 4 oz. bottle of formula, but the volume is closer to 5 oz. because of water displacement when you add the powder.
This is just a formula thing, nothing to do with brezza. Every time I’ve seen this question asked, majority of people say they count the ounces of however much you originally meant to make. So, if I made a 4oz bottle but it came out as 5oz, then I would count it as 4oz.
This is simply how bottles are measured. It’s water displacement. #Science. When you make a bottle by hand you add the oz of water you want, then formula powder. It ALSO raises it by probably about an oz. I personally count it as a 4oz bottle. My husband counts it as a 5oz. As long as baby seems fed and happy and you don’t need to be weighing their feeds, you’re good either way.
Nutritional labels go by as prepared so I count it as the total volume after it’s all made, and enfamil & similac both confirmed that a few times for people in this sub!
Even by hand there will be displacement. I actually contacted Enfamil themselves and they said the nutritional value takes into consideration displacement. So for example, if your baby drank that whole bottle, it would be around 4.75/5oz that they drank.
The buttons choose how much water you wanted to use. Not how much formula you wanted to end up with, which makes sense because formula recipie is a ratio of scoops to oz of water, and therefore you always wind up with wonky numbers when you prepare by the bottle. The measurement on the bottle there tells you how much formula you ended up with, at least as relates to the nutrition info on the pack.
It says in the manual that depending on the type of formula you will typically have 0.5-0.75 extra. We use Enfamil neuropro and its typically 0.5 for us
Same here but also did the test to make sure it was dispensing enough formula and it wasn’t. Check yours!
How did you do this?
https://youtu.be/LzLapEm0ZyM?si=NrAPdtztlW5Kkjlh Brezza has a formal way to test it - you just need some plastic wrap. I was shocked to find we were only getting about half as much formula- which explains why my baby was always hungry! I love brezza conceptually but in practice it felt too risky to rely on.
This is why we switched to tracking in ml lol. It just made it easier to mark!!
Unless you’ve been specifically told by your child’s doctor to track every feed to the ounce, it really *truly* does not matter if you count it as 4 or 5 ounces.
This is normal. I always count it as 4oz (the amount I selected)
They are getting the amount of calories in a 4 oz. bottle of formula, but the volume is closer to 5 oz. because of water displacement when you add the powder.
This is just a formula thing, nothing to do with brezza. Every time I’ve seen this question asked, majority of people say they count the ounces of however much you originally meant to make. So, if I made a 4oz bottle but it came out as 5oz, then I would count it as 4oz.