Help with new born feeding

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Hi,
I am a new mum & I was looking for some advice on bottle feeding. My daughter is 9 days old. For the first few days she would drink 2oz or less say every 2-3 hours. We've recently started giving her 3oz & this was every 2.5 - 4 hours but she seems to wake in the night for another bottle just after 1.5 - 2 hours. She doesn't quite finish a 3oz bottle so I'm not sure what I should be doing, would I just feed her when she wants it (which is what I'm doing now) or do I need to maybe try her on a 4oz bottle? I'm just worried I may over feed her or starve her so any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you!

I don't think you can overfeed a baby, they will just be sick if they eat too much surely? So don't think you need to worry about that.

If my baby is getting close to draining a bottle I move up another fluid oz. that way there is more there if she needs it.

Oh and I'm feeding on demand. I've had no luck trying to get her to take a bottle at set intervals

Thank you for your reply. I think I'll see how she is today & maybe try another oz x

If she isn't finishing 3oz, how is trying 4oz going to help?

Newborns wake at night, that's just the way it is....

Her stomach is tiny, google newborn stomach size

Have a look how much baby needs based on the birth weight. It's 150 ml per kg per day. Then divide it to 8 to get ml per feed. This is an average. They may have less or more at each feed but this is to guide you. I think such a small baby will eat on demand in terms of volume and frequency and difficult it can be very scheduled and predictable. Watch for the wet nappies and weight gain to guide you. Babies often cry when tired. So if fed well and cries say an hour after the feeding think of tiredness as well.

Hi AnaKristina,

Thank you very much for your help!