@nanbee I’m genuinely not sure what’s so difficult to understand about the fact that formula is how the baby gets its nutrition via the calories in the powder. They’re not getting calories from the water. The whole point of tracking oz consumed is to know how much nutrition baby is getting. If you use 4 scoops of formula it’s 4 oz not 4.5 and not 5.
ETA: Assuming a formula that uses a 1:1 ratio but the same is true if 2 scoops = 4oz.
@brynja Baby is getting nutrition from the formula, yes. But they take into consideration that you're not just spooning in dry formula into the baby's mouth. Scoops are not ounces... they are grams which are significantly less. No formula is ever going to go off of you doing math to figure oh, well baby drank 3 oz of the mixture so that will be 1.5 scoops worth of formula so it'll be this much iron.
No. It's prepared formula that they go off of to tell you the nutrition quantities.
@levation1 It doesn’t matter - the difference would be at best 10%ish. What matters is the trajectory, so use one method and stick with it.
I use the total milk + formula volume for calculation because the math is way easier if the LO didn’t finish the bottle, which she doesn’t most of the times.
