Can you over feed a breast fed baby?

[lizzlebizzle33]

Hi my boy is 11 weeks old, we was 9.5lb at birth and has been feeding very well. Hi had him weighed today and he is just over 15.1 lb. I'm just wondering if this gain is average or a bit high as he is already almost too big for his brothers 3 to 6 month hand me downs.

I think a lot of it has been comfort feeding over hunger but I was always happy to let him whenever he wanted so it would help increase with milk supply as with DS1 it was a struggle at the beginning and he gained weight a lot slower.
Now my supply is well established do you think it would be OK to introduce a dummy? I've read conflicting things about BF babies and dummies and DS1 never had one so I don't know a lot about them

Two of mine had dummies from a few weeks, didn't cause any problems with breastfeeding.

@Marcine they'd bring up the excess if their digestive systems couldn't handle it. So many myths around BF, it's physiologically impossible

You can still consume more than you need, even if you vomit some up.
Surely if that holds for feeding from the breast (they can't overfeed because they vomit the excess) then the same would be true for bottle feeding?

Sorry, Stylish, you're wrong there. Anyway sounds like OP and her baby are fine but I can most definitively tell you that it is quite possible to consume an excess of anything and to experience unpleasant consequences. Breast milk, ice cream, beer, anything.

My second bf baby was a very placid baby. She didn't move around much at all, loved her sleep. She was a butter ball as well. Entirely breastfed. Some just grow like that.

Personally I wouldn’t bother with a dummy unless there is a huge issue settling him or suspected reflux. Generally around now they find their fingers and that soothes the fussiness. Anyone I know who’s used one has had a nightmare when it was time to ditch them or they fell out repeatedly overnight with the subsequent wailing.
I’ve mixed fed two and one child would feed and feed (and chubby) and the other would stop as soon as satiated. There was no more getting anything into her. As a poster said up thread, a bit of extra weight is a godsend when they get the invariable temperature bug later and don’t eat for three days or really suffer with their teeth. Unless they are jumping multiple percentiles the HV’s are usually v relaxed.