Trying to FF on demand, and but baby over feeding and being sick-help?

[raininginbaltimore]

Firstly, I am not trying for their record number of posts. I maybe I should just be start one out all my feeding woes!

Anyway, I dd is 1 week old. FF since day 5. Have been feeding on demand so sometimes 1oz, 2 or 3. Rarely 3oz in one go, but occasionally 3 hours between feeds, and often 2 hours with some cluster- type feeding in evening.
A couple of times now though she has shown hungry cues an hour or so after a feed (poking out tongue, and chewing fists, and trying to root or latch onto my arm) and so have fed, and but then she projectile vomits as clearly her little stomach is over full.

What can I do? I don't want to ignore her hunger signs. I sometimes she does it and doesn't vomit. I think she is very sucky and maybe wants comfort. So a dummy? DH is less keen on dummy as 2.11 ds still has one for sleep. But maybe it is way?

could she be tired rather than hungry? You could try a dummy and see if she uses it to help go to sleep.

congratulations on your DD, I remember you posting about going camping when pregnant (Counting Crows fan so I noticed the username!).

I haven't FF & I am sure someone wiser will come along, but I would give a dummy. When a baby breastfeeds (or at least when my babies have breastfed) there are feeding sucks & "I want to sleep/relax" sucks. I guess on the breast they can control whether they induce let down a bit more easily than with a bottle.

Hope someone with experience comes along for you though!

Have you tried feeding her held fairly upright with the bottle at a horizontal angle, so she has to suck to get milk out rather than gravity continuing to drip the milk into her mouth when she's doing the more light, fluttery, sleepy sucking? This can help. There are also bottles which are designed only to let milk out when actively sucked on, sold as "special needs feeders" although they look different to a normal bottle.

Thanks. Have given dummy and she has gone off to sleep. I will try to feed her more upright next feed too, but she definitely does those little flutter socks, and like when we was bf.

Honestly I thought I wouldn't feel quite so clueless with my second. Although I was bf ds at this point.

this might be totally irrelevant but my 3wo ebf ds has vomited up what seems
like a huge amount on more than a few occasions and it seemed like he was overfull. i mentioned it to hv who said its a normal part of being a small baby, they arent great at knowing when to stop when they're tiny and if they take too much it will simply come back up. She said ds will grow out of it as his tummy gets bigger and he gets better at knowing he's full.

Not sure if same with bottle fed?

I think a dummy is probably better than her being sick, though. :)