DD feeding for just 10 minutes at each feed

[Aloha31]

Is she getting enough? She is 9 weeks, and used to take longer. Thru the night she always took about 10 mins, but thru the day it's just this past few days that she has gotten quicker.

Can she be getting enough in 10 min to last the 3 hours to nest feed (we don't have a schedule as such, just a natural 3ish hour cycle).

thanks!

She's just a very efficient feeder - ds used to do a full feed in 5 minutes which suprised people

Is she weeing, pooing, alert, hydrated, gaining weight?

Some babies feed in a few minutes, some take hours. Your body should be pretty efficient at producing what she needs and at 9 weeks she should be quite efficient at removing it.

Agree with Saul as long as she is doing all of those things you have no worries.

You're lucky - my ds still takes longer than 10 minutes at 12 months

Don't worry. if your baby is thiriving, you just have a very efficient feeder. I wish I hadn't listen to the HVs saying 10min too short for a newborn. I spent so much effort trying to rouse a sleepy baby to feed for longer I should have just trusted the fact she gained back her birth weight in one week means shes obviously getting enough.

It scared me too when my DS suddenly started doing shorter feeds. I think he had just got better at it.

She is definitely thriving. So I shouldn't be worried.

Thank you!

So much conflicting advice, it's stupid really, every baby is different.

neither of my dds ever took more than 10mins to feed, and they were massively fat thriving 98th centilers.