Help - newborn drinking too much??

[violetclouds]

My DS is a week old tomorrow, for info he was born c section, milk came in day 2 & he has been constantly feeding since the moment he was laid on my chest.
So I have been expressing every other feed on one breast to allow my husband to do a feed before he comes up to bed so I can get a couple of hours in.
Fast forward tonight I left a bag of 5oz in fridge, husband gave him 3oz then he was still fussing an hour later so he gave him other 2oz then he has just woke me up panicking he has no milk left & hes still rooting so I latched him on before I had chance to think if it was a good idea or not.

What I'm asking in short is what should we do? Continue to feed if & when hungry even though everything online is saying that it's way too much for a week old baby? Will he just throw it back up if too much?
Second baby & I feel like a first timer!!! Don't know what to do for the best!

Newborns love a good cluster feeding in the evening to encourage additional milk supply. Personally I would try and avoid expressing during this stage as the cluster feeding encourages your milk supply to regulate to his needs. Or express and give it during the day.

Look into pace feeding as often bf babies will guzzle from a bottle as its easier for them.

@LifeIsBusy thanks for replying 😊
So do you think it's likely he's taking quite a lot from the breast in the evening anyway then? Obviously it's panicked me because you don't know how much they're getting form the boob & it just seems a lot for a young baby!
I have a Hakka hand pump which I just attach at same time of feeding on other breast & get a good 3-4oz every time.

It's normal cluster feeding especially as growth spurts are 1 week, 2 week 4and 6 usually.
With your DH make sure that he is pace feeding with the bottle. Bottle teets hit a part of the mouth with the swallow reflex so they will keep swallowing with a bottle.

Just follow babies cues and for DH make sure baby is actually showing full feeding cues.

@violetclouds hakaa gets let down not the same end of feed/pump high fat stuff more thirst quenching. It's potentially why looking for more - thirst satisfied but still a bit hungry.

If towards the end of the feed you swap the hakaa and baby around so baby goes onto breast hakaa just on and hakaa goes onto breast baby just fed you will get a very small amount of very high fat to combine with the thirst quencher so it will make it a more filling milk.

Also, as hormones drop naturally through the day, if you pump in the morning the milk is creamier and thicker, and have dh give that in the evening to help keep baby fuller.

You can't really over feed a BF baby so follows their lead but watch the bottle flow as others said.

And with every feed remember to wind loads, babies that young don't have different ways of telling you wants wrong so feed, wind, check nappy, wind again, repeat basically until they seem comfortable to sleep.

Great advice everyone thank you very much 😊

It's difficult to know how much your LO will be taking from the breast but generally speaking (outside of cluster feeding and growth spurts) they usually take between 1-1.5 punch per hour and no more than 4 ounce in a 3 hour stretch but everything is thrown out the window when you introduce growth spurts and cluster feeding. They need to cluster feed to regulate what they need from you so it's best to try and avoid giving bottles over these crazy periods.