3 week old baby crying in every 2 hours

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Hello everyone, I hope someone would be able to help me. I have a 3 week old baby. I breast / formula feed baby in every 3 hours. I keep him on my breast for 25 minutes and then top up with 45 ml formula. So far baby was content and happy but past two days baby is crying, looking for feed. I increased the formula to 60 ml per feed. I am not producing huge amount of milk so I assume baby must be taking 10 - 15 ml max from my breast in every 3 hours. Does my baby need more ? Or is he drinking too much already. Helpppppp

3 weeks old is classic timing for a growth spurt; you can expect another one at 6 weeks. As PPs have said, set yourself up comfortably on the sofa with good support for your arms and back, and drinks and food in easy reach. Then binge watch your favourite show all day, knowing that you are doing your best for your baby. Swap breasts every 20 mins or so - unless your baby is snoozing - so that you are building up your supply evenly.

Feeding for 25 mins then topping up with formula then putting to bed for an hour is classic one-size-fits-all advice, but human babies aren’t one-size-fits-all.

It is much more important to look at output - wet nappies and weight gain - than to wonder about input.

In another few weeks your baby will be much more at home in the world, and meanwhile just make things as easy and calm as you can. Good luck, you can do it!

Repeating everyone else. Mixed feeding isn't a great idea. Your body needs to be responding to baby's needs. It's normally to feed for huge long lengths of time.
Been there but yup it was exhausting.

If you're finding it too much though you can always stop the breast feeding. There's no judgement in that sentence - it's an option. (I could have done with someone putting that to me neutrally at the time tbh rather than pressure either way.) Happy mum means happy baby. Which is trite but true.
Do read up on how to stop though as mastitis is a bitch.

It’s very hard for a new mother to distinguish non nutritive sucking, and in the early weeks non nutritive sucking is very important for bonding and building supply. So while your points are valid, I think OP can do the newborn thing for a few weeks and then faster feeds will usually become easier.

Good point @PicaK , and to clarify when I said “doing your best” I didn’t mean the breastfeeding, I meant the binge-watching :)