Baby feeding every half hour/hour!! Please help!!

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I've asked this before and told it's normal but it's getting worse!!

My 19 day old baby is looking for food as soon as he's finished his bottle (formula fed), he's having 2 ounces every half hour to an hour! This isn't normal!

What the hell do I do??

Hungry baby is high in protein which is bad for his little kidneys, you want to pick one which has protein levels at the lower end, possibly with extra "whey" added if you read the labels that closely.

Give him the amounts the tin recommends and in between feeds try things like a dummy, sitting on a fit ball holding him upright gently bouncing, putting him upright in a sling close to you etc.

Watch his wet and dirty nappies. You should have 5-6 heavy wet ones. If he is doing that and regular soft poos he is getting enough.

Are you mixing up tired signs with hungry cues? babies like to suck to self soothe and settle themselves

I think I was mixing up tired signs with hungry. Every time he cried I tried everything before feeding him but if he didn't settle straight away I'd give him a bottle.

He's just had another 3oz which he didn't actually wake up for (I did).
Winded him again & put him back down with his dummy. He's asleep!

Can I get a little bit excited, that he's going to get into a routine of actually eating every 3 hours rather than every 5 bloody minutes??!! 😍

Back off to sleep, next feed due at 8am 🤞 he sleeps until then!

I don't know what il do with all the extra sleep I will potentially be getting!

Il update at 8!

Thanks guys

I have my fingers crossed for you.

Dashed shame babies don't come with manual on them

Hope it's getting better. But if he is emptying bottles you should increase the amount. The measurements on the box are guidelines.

My DS is ff and three weeks old tomorrow, so pretty much the same as yours. I've been really worried about overfeeding too as some days he is taking 20-22oz a day! DS1 was on breast milk (expressed, neither baby would feed directly) so I never worried too much about amounts, but I know he was having less than this (I kept a diary of his feeds for other reasons).

My HV doesn't seem concerned but I heard all the 'stomach the size of a marble' stuff at NCT, so my baby eating 4oz at some feeds seems way too much. He is sick quite a bit too but won't take a dummy so I end up feeding him. He'll go for three hours at night between feeds but seems constantly hungry during the day.

I might persevere with the dummy if you have found that helps. Formula feeding can be quite complicated!

What size teats is he on? My son used to feed quite often, fall asleep before finishing but still be hungry when he woke. The HV advised to go onto the fast flow teats as he was tiring himself out trying to drink from slow flow teats, before he could finish the bottle even though he was still hungry.
We have since moved onto size 3 variflow which works at his own pace. Seems to have done the trick with mine.

That's good OP, hope you enjoyed some well earned sleep.

Now when he is emptying his 3oz bottles with ease you need to start offering him 4oz. You want him to be able to have his fill and leave a bit in the bottle so you're sure he's satisfied. Don't worry about over feeding at this stage, he is growing at a rate of knots and needs the fuel.