3 month old feeding too much?

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My ff 3 month old is having 6oz every 2 hours and every 2 and a half to 3 hours at night (not so bad). He will occasionally have a 3oz feed about an hour and a half after a feed and he can then manage to go to 3 hours.

He's been having 6oz for the last month but was managing to go 3 hours in between feeds but it's been getting less and less over the past few weeks.

I've tried hungry milk, which made him really sicky and giving him an oz more milk, but he just couldn't fit it in and either threw it up or just stopped at 6.

He's putting on weight very well and is on the same percentile as he was when he was born. He's not 'big' but quite long.

The health visitor was rubbish and just suggested making him wait an hour and cry it out if needs be, but there is no way i'm going to let my newborn cry and grizzle for an hour.

Can anyone offer any suggestions? Is this ok for him to be doing? A friend told me to put a rusk in his bottle, but i'm told they really don't recommend weaning before 6 months now.

Your friend is an idiot and you are right to question her advice on here, not to her face obviously . You should only ever put milk in your babies bottles, cereals, rusks and baby rice present a serious choking risk.

If your baby is very tall, and tracking his height centile, I really can't see what the problem is, though I can understand why you might find it hard work

Firstly, please don't put anything like rusk in his bottles - it is dangerous because it is a choking hazard. It is also basically introducing food, which at 3 months is way too early. You might like to pass this info back to your friend so that she doesn't offer such advice to anyone else.

If your baby is putting weight on whilst following her centile line, then could you just stick with feeding every 2 hours? It may well be that she is going through a growth spurt and wants to feed all the time because of that. It may then settle down in a week or so. I think you are right to go with your instinct that forcing your baby to go longer between feeds is not what you want to do.

Sorry, "he" not "she", somehow managed to switch gender in my reply...