How often should a 13 week old EBF baby be feeding?

[ScarlettButler]

Pregnancy and childbirth obv taken away my brain - how often should a baby be feeding at this age. DD2 can often go 4 hours and long time at night and I am worried she is not feeding enough. If I try to do regimented 3 hr feeds however she doesn't co-operate...should i be doing something else?

So long as she's gaining weight, producing lots of nappies and is content and alert, then feed her as often as she wants.

If you want to feed more often though, how about offering whenever she is getting tired from a nap or waking up from when? Might be more receptive than a 3 hourly schedule.

It can vary from baby to baby, I agree with Rita just watch for her signs that she is hungry, she will soon let you know :)
You may find that she will feed more often some weeks than others as she hits various growth spurts. As long as she is alert and producing plenty of wet nappies then I wouldn't worry.

She sleeps a lot but when she's awake is tremendous fun, lots of smiles and kicking and grabbing and chattering. HV keeps on bringing her weight up as she was huge when born (v overdue) but now just average. But she has wet/drty nappies, maybe she's just efficient at eating? Just concerned i could be missing something...

Is she still dropping centiles?

She was huge when born but dropped down to 50th and has been there for weeks. HV says wd be a prob if goes beneath that

I have similar issue - baby was 8/1 when born, then lost loads of weight in early days and it took just over 2wks to regain birth weight. Since then shes been putting on an ounce a day (she's now 10wks) which i thort was pretty standard but hv keeps bringing up the fact that shes now in a lower percentile than when born. Just as with Scarlett baby seems perfectly contented. She doesn't sleep all that much in the day but sleeps well at night and while she's awake she's alert and smiley and starting to make the goo goo noises. She feeds regularly and theres plenty of poo and wee but despite all that i still have a nagging feeling that things aren't going well purely because of the constant scrutinising of her weight gain by the hv. It's beginning to stop me actually enjoying this time cos Im just worrying shes not getting enough to eat but I really want to carry on with the bf cos I think that's the best thing for her.

Don't most babies end up on a lower centile than they were born on? All my friends babies are, whether BF or FF. The birthweight just tells you how well nourished they were during pregnancy, not how big they're going to end up.

Mine's been slowly dropping from 50th to 25th centile over the last two months - he's 17 weeks now. HV not fussed and neither am I, really - I know he's getting enough milk. Babies do often do this.