Hi everyone,
My girl is now 1 month old. We had her at the hospital recently as she had a raised temp and some issues with pooping. While we were there they asked how much she was feeding.
She's exclusively formula fed on kendamil and has been since birth. She struggled to get the hang of feeding at first and lost too much of her birth weight so had to be monitored. She thankfully got the hang of it quite quickly and put the weight back on no bother. Since then her growth has been fine.
She's now got into a nice routine of feeing like clockwork every 3 hours. She was having around 3oz for the first couple of weeks but quickly progresses to needing a 4oz bottle. As she was finishing the 3 every time and didn't seem satisfied. She doesn't always finish the 4oz but has done on a number of occasions rececently.
I told the hospital this and the Dr has told us we are overfeeding her and we should knock it back down to a 3oz maximum every 3 hours. We've done this and she's now waking every 2 hours absolutely ravenous. Rooting for her feed and very quickly becoming agitated and crying. We used to have plenty of time to get a bottle prepped between her starting to root and fuss and progressing to a full on meltdown.
This is our first baby so we've just been following her lead and going with her flow. Now I feel like we've done it all wrong and are giving her bad eating habits already at such a young age. Has anyone else's baby been so hungry for food at 4 weeks. How quickly has anyone else progessed to bigger ounce bottles?