To wonder if we're overfeeding her?

[willisurvive3under2]

2 month old twins. Mix fed, twin 1 is mainly breastfed with the odd formula bottle. Twin 2 doesn't feed well from the breast so she has a lot of bottles. I have no problems with this - we're just trying to survive these very hard few weeks with little twins and a young toddler.

However my DH will feed a formula bottle to twin 2 every time she cries and can't be calmed down in other ways. He insists she must be hungry. She does in fact show hungry cues and will down bottle after bottle. We're giving her way more than the recommended amount shown on the formula tub. Is this ok? They were born small and are still catching up - at 2 months they're the average newborn weight. Will too much milk hurt them?

I know the latest guidelines say to FF on demand but twin 2 literally never says no (and is never sick, she keeps in every last drop). I've never FF before as my first was BF for a long time. Any advice welcome.

It gets easier. I get cold sweats when I think about the sheer volume of bottles they go through at that age. I seemed to spend hours a day just washing and sterilising.

My son was a preemie, and maybe 2 months on he started feeding every hour or so on 13oz bottles!! He was doing it for comfort I think. The HV suggested a dummy which I very reluctantly gave him, and he started feeding ever 4 hours on 8oz bottles.

Ah just seen they have dummies, it may be worth just getting a checkup at the doctors, no harm. But yes may just be hungry

If she’s drinking it and not being sick I don’t think you are overfeeding her. My little boy was a hungry baby. He would want a bottle every 3 hours and demolish it. He was big and health visitors worried me by saying be careful to not over feed him but if I tried to give him less or stretch him out longer between bottles he would just cry and get even hungrier. He’s 1 now and perfectly fine. Crack on with what you are doing.