11-week old feeding every 2 hours during the day- is this normal?

[pendulum]

...because the HV ( I know, I know!) said she should be going 3-4 hours by now...

ROFL - it's a growth spurt, it'll past. Your HV is mad

Keep on doing what you are doing, it's the right thing (I'm assuming you are breastfeeding right?

normal normal normal. 3-4 hours at 11 weeks?

Growth spurt. Be over soon!

she needs to coem and talk to my 9 mth old then LOL

Absolutely it's normal - you're actually quite lucky it's only every 2 hours (I know you don't feel lucky.......!)

Ignore your HV - she is so very wrong!

Quite normal.

What everyone else says! Always used to shock me every time DS went through a spurt. Oh, and prior warning, this will happen every few months! Just make yourself comfy and enjoy sitting down with your feet up.

After she's had a chat with Piffle's 9 month old, she can come and see my 7 month old. She feeds when she pleases and it pleases her to feed often.

Be led by your baby and nobody else.

thanks! yes, b'feeding. I don't mind too much, just that she's quite colicky and i wondered if she is 'snacking' too much and missing out on the hindmilk.

piffle- how often does your DC feed? (gave up at 8 weeks with DD1 so no experience beyond that point!)

send your HV over here and she can have it out with my nearly 6mo who is feeding every 2 hours again during the day. We did have a period where it was every 3 hours but never 4. And she's ffed and being weaned both of which are of course the answer to everything

The hindmilk thing is a bit of a red herring IIRC - do a search for tiktok's posts on the subject.

Pendulum, that old fore/hind milk thing is a bit misleading. See here.

My 7 month old feeds fairly frequently. Sometimes (often!) every 2 hours, rarely goes 4 hours even at night.

HV once told me off because my baby actually went too long between feeds on one occasion. What did she expect me to do - set an alarm and wake him up? He was a big baby too so not much chance of wasting away. I agree with every one else - 2 hours between feeds is normal and who's watching the clock anyway?

Thanks for the link SOH- I love Kellymom.

btw my SIL's HV just told her the same thing (3-4 hours)- and her DS is 4 weeks old!

be glad it is during the day, DS did this for 4 months during the night, every 1.5-2 hrs. He is still grazzer

Wouldnt worry about it not being textbook

We've been home since 5.15 and my 9 mo has Bfed 4 times

(what's that 2.5 hours?)

Every 2 hrs is normal
sometiems now he is on solids he can go longer but on average it's 2 hrs

See last night
5pm 7pm 8pm 9.30pm 12.10am 12.50am
the slept til 7.20

Ha first time ever!
6 feeds in 6 hrs...
ho hum

During the day he was exactly 2 hrly until 7 mths.
only since submitting to porridge or weetabix for brekkie has that changed to 3 hrs at a push.
As this is my 3rd bf child, I can also tell you he has been the easiest...

FWIW I know plenty of FF babies in our baby group (I'm the only bf mother actually) and none of their babies go 3 hrs daytime yet and none have ever gone thru the night
Ha my bf is the first to go longer than 6 hrs...

perfectly normal, ds2 was still every 2 hours (or even more frequent tbh) at 6mo, never mind 11 weeks.

BTW my mother was advised by the dr to feed my brother every 2 hours, back in 1958. When he was born he was post-mature, 3 weeks late (wouldn't be allowed now would it?) and according to my mum, looked like "a skinned rabbit". Guess the placenta was failing.

DS fed every 2 hours 24/7 until he was 6 months.

dd is feeding nearly every hour during the day, and she's 8 weeks old.

Even the most experience and professional HV has no idea what youtr baby should be doing. Only he knows that.

My girls fed every hour or two hours sometimes at this age, it's hard isn't it, but it gets better!