Am I overfeeding?
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Anonymous
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Our baby is almost 4 weeks and wants to eat all the time. She will have 4oz at 5pm and want more another 3-4 an hour and a half later. We haven't had much spit up until today. But everything I read says 4 ounces 3 hours apart.
Should we hold her off until eebry 4 hours, if she's having 4-5 ounces a feed? I know I feed her sooner if she doesn't have a big bottle but surely her stomach is only so big? |
Anonymous
| An hour and a half later sounds like it's sleep cycle related. Is she happy with a paci or does it seem like true hunger? |
Anonymous
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I wouldn’t push her to wait 4 hours between feeds — that’s only 6 feeds x 4oz a day = 24oz total which is fine but on the low end; my understanding was most babies eat 24-32oz in 24 hours.
That being said, 5pm fussiness and 4 weeks old sounds like normal cluster feeding/witching hour. If she doesn’t spit up much and seems hungry, definitely feed her; but she could also just be fussy because she’s hitting a growth spurt or something. |
Anonymous
| Thanks everyone. Sorry meant 3 hours if she eats 4-5 ounces of it better for her to eat every 3 hours? Occasionally we get one 4 hour stretch at night |
Anonymous
| She may have been going through a growth spurt - babies eat a lot more at 2-3 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months etc. It's not always the same. The key is to listen for your baby's cry - is it a hunger cry, a tired cry, a comfort cry or something else and then respond to it. |
Anonymous
| You are not going to overfeed her. At 4 weeks she’s should be eating on demand. Don’t starve her. |
Anonymous
| I EBF my kids and I fed on demand. |
Anonymous
+1. It's pretty impossible to overfeed a baby that small. If they are throwing it all up, I'd maybe be concerned. But if she's hungry, she's hungry. If you were breastfeeding you'd have no idea how much she was having and would just feed her. When the baby is bigger you can work to get on a feeding schedule. But not at 4 weeks. |
Anonymous
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The concept of "overfeeding" a newborn is a lie created by breastfeeding advocates to try to convince women that bottle feeding is evil.
Newborns are excellent self-regulators. If the baby is hungry, feed them. |