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Infant feeding

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New to FF - routine/amounts?

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Tinsel12 · 19/01/2013 15:53

8 week old DD, have breastfed until last week when changed to mixed feeding. Baby seemed to prefer bottles & turned her nose up at my boobs a few times so since yesterday am just ff. But I'm not sure what amounts to give her, she was 8lb 9oz when weighed 2 weeks ago so on the red book chart would be 9lb 4oz now as an estimate. Am using SMA but although there's a guide on the tin people have said still feed on demand & they should take more in the daytime than at night.

Have only just started a bedtime routine last night, she had milk at 7.30pm, 10.30pm then a bit at 1am, bottle at 2.30 & 5.30 - 9.30am. Long sleep then 5 oz at 1.30pm, wouldn't settle so I gave some more at 3.30pm, she had 2 1/2 oz then promptly fell asleep.

I don't want to overfeed nor for her to go hungry. Tried a dummy yesterday which she wouldn't take before but was fine with this time, but I don't want to use that if she's really crying because she's hungry.

Please help!

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ilovepowerhoop · 19/01/2013 16:03

my 2 fed every 3 hours or so at that age, sometimes after 2½ hours if they wouldnt settle/were crying a lot. I am sure she would let you know that the dummy wasn't enough by spitting it out and crying.

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