Can you over feed a BF baby?

[Chica31]

Sorry I have just finsihed writing and realised it is a bit long...

DD2 is 15 days old. She eats very quickly, mainly due to my let down being quick and she has to swallow it all or get drowned!

Thanks to advice on here and a direction to kellymom, things are getting better with my let down and she isn't drowning as often.

We were having problems with wind and being sick about an hour after a feed, but again, has improved loads and normally happens once a day now.

Just come back from the 15 day check by the doctor and nurse, I have been told that she is putting on too much weight and to only let her have 5 mins feeding at a time. She was 3kg 68g at birth, 3kg 46g leaving hospital, 5 days old she was 3kg 68g and now at 15 days she is 4kg 4g.

Is this too much, too quick? Or shall I ignore, along with the advice this morning to put DD2 asleep on her side as her head is slightly misshapen, not that I can see it is and neither can DH.

No, you can't overfeed a bf baby. I don't think this is good advice at all, they are effectively telling you to put at 15 day old baby on a diet!! Ignore them and feed when she wants, can congratulations :)

I hadn't thought of it like that, my 15 day old baby IS NOT going on a diet!

Ignore them!

Ridiculous! All that would give you is a hungry baby and a wet blouse.

I had oversupply issues too.
Once my boys got back to their birth weight they gained nearly a pound a week for the first 4-6 weeks. Weight gain settled down as obviously they can not go on gaining that much each week.

Continue to breastfeed on demand

Such weird advice - surely if you limit her to 5 minutes a time you'll just end up having to feed her every 20 minutes?

It does seem strange, my boobs feel like they are going to explode at the best of times. I wake in the night very wet after 4 hours, but luckily she isn't going longer than that at the moment.

I figure I will settle down soon.

I fed dd1 for 11 months until she didn't want it any more, hopefully I will be able to go longer with DD2.

I concur... you are doing a great job. Did they say why it was too much weight?

Not sure about the sleeping on the side thing either... SIDS advice is to put babies on their back, loads of babies get mishapen heads, they straighten out in almost all cases.

This is odd advice.

I know about the head already got the same advice with dd1, we bought a goigoi pillow and all fine. dd2 is also on the pillow.

We live in Spain, at least the hospital are now advising to sleep on back. 20 months ago with dd1 it was still advised on their side!

You are doing really well - sounds like odd advice on both counts. My ds2 gained 12lbs in the first 10 weeks and then slowed down - he is now a skinny 10 year old.

sounds like you know what you are doing so ignore that advice, your supply will settle down.

also you might want to check what growth charts they use in spain as uk ones are now for breastfed babies. when i had my ds1 5 years ago they were for bottle fed, the growth is very different so the percentile lines are in different places. just a thought as i found it very confusing.

I have had both my dds in Spain, and whilst the hospital and our local clinic were excellent, I totally ignored everything everyone said about feeding, whether milk or solids. And they are obsessed with weight gain. Smile, nod, ignore. Come on here or kellymom instead!