Overfeeding a breastfed baby

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Back at work now, expressing for dd's daytime feeds. House husband wants to know if he should feed on demand? Is it possible to overfeed a (bottle) breast fed baby? She certainly enjoys her milk !

Um... probably. I always imagined the "not over feeding" applied to getting the milk from a breast.

how old is she?

7 weeks old

I think it's pretty hard to overfeed a baby, period. If you offer the bottle, and take it away when she's annoyed with it, then that should be fine.

I think feeding on demand is trickier with EBM, though, because you can't leave bottles of EBM hanging about, like you can boobs.

pmsl at the image of breasts hanging about...

Does she have any pattern to her feeds?

Last week before I returned to work she was tending to feed: 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm then cluster feeds until midnight. Now its roughly 6am, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm then cluster feeds til midnight again.

WJ - maybe she just needs bigger feeds less often? I went through this when returning to work as I had no idea how much dd took at each feed. Shame we don't have ml marks on our boobs.....