Dropping the night feed - increase the amount given at each daytime feed?

[Lozzapops]

I feel like this might be a bit of a silly question, but never mind!

Baby is 8 weeks old, exclusively fed expressed breast milk since birth. Takes 130ml per feed, 7 times a day, this has been the case for probably the past 3 weeks or so, having gradually increased volume at each feed.

Feeds are spread near enough like clockwork through the day, 3 hourly during the daytime, with a longer stretch between 8pm and around 2-3am. This night time stretch seems to gradually be getting a little longer (though not consistently). No idea whether she will be dropping that 2am feed at some point, but if she does, do I need to add in an extra feed during the day to make up for the "lost" milk. Or add more milk to her bottles, and just give 6 slightly larger feeds in 24 hours?

Also, should I expect now to be feeding every 3 hours during the day until she is established on solids? She sometimes might go ever so slightly longer than 3 hours, but never gets anywhere near 4 hours. I have no problems with 3-hourly feeds, I'd just like to know what to expect.

Many thanks.

Do you do the dream feed? It's a nice easy feed at 11pm and most babies sleep through it! They then go back to sleep. Yours might even be able to go to 6am if she is already sleeping a long stretch.

Wow - 8-2am?!

I only put DD down at midnight and have just finished our second feed

I think you have to be led by baby! If she needs more she'll let you know.

As an aside - don't get caught up in the bottle feeding "how many ml" hype. I read recently (poss on KellyMom) that bf babies needs don't increase in the same way as ff babies' do ie ever increasing volume. Instead, your milk changes to meet their needs as they grow.