First time mum, and feeding!

[missrainbowbaby]

So, I did a thread a couple weeks ago about my little girl being a slow eating. Well it's took a plot twist😂 she is now finishing off her 4oz bottles over this last couple days and sometimes wanting more, so I've upped her to 5oz which she's eating in the evening all in one go, in the day she will eat it within the hour with a small interval and wake up wanting the rest. But now my mum worry has stayed the same over the eating as now she's on 5oz she will go 4 hours inbetween (evening is 3 as she gets a bit more hungry evening time) but now she's on 5oz she's only having 5 feeds a day. Is this enough for a formula fed baby? She is keeping most of it down also, she's not a sicky baby at all. She will have small spit ups, but I think it's her belly getting use to this extra milk she's having. Or again am I naive thinking that?

She's never lost weight, always gained. Born 7 pounds 1 and at 5 days old was 7 pound 8, 7 pound 13 at 13 days old and Last time she was weighed 3 weeks ago she was 9 pound 14

Advice is to feed on demand. Feed as soon as they show feeding cues and they decide when to finish so she should never finish a bottle but should be stopping when she has had enough.

As long as she is around her centile don’t worry about how much milk she is getting. Focus on out put. Is she weeing? Pooing? Gaining around the ‘right’ amount of weight.

How old is she? If she's hungry she'll let you know so if she's content with her feeds there's nothing to worry about!

And there will be some days when she has more milk than others and this is fine too.

When I had my first I used to wake her religiously every 3 hours to feed as that's what they told me to do. I used an ap to track when she was fed and sound an alarm when her next one was due. Basically I drove myself half mad.
Second is 6 weeks. He's taking 5oz at a time and he gets fed when he lets me know he needs it. Sometimes that's 4 hours sometimes 5-6 hours. He's alert, putting on weight and I honestly couldn't tell you exactly how many times he feeds. Changes day to day on his needs.
If your baby is gaining weight and not screaming in hunger then your doing just fine and so is she.

Presumably she's not losing weight, she's content and she's having plenty of wet nappies?
If so, you're doing just fine!

My little girl will be 8 weeks old on Wednesday. Plenty of wet nappies, she can poo twice a day, or nothing a day. Or once a day. She definitely tells me when she's hungry. I was the same in the first days, setting alarms to feed her, even waking her. It was torture for us both then as she wasn't taking the bottle or taking small amounts and falling asleep. She is the most content little girl, awake most the day soon as it hits late afternoon. Will go down at around 10pm and wake up at 4am, but she can also go between 11pm and sleep until 6am.

Hoping I get an appointment through about her 8 week check soon so I can discuss all this. First time mum worry is next level

It gets easier. I still worry about her but mainly because she's 14 months and keeps running into walls and trying to eat the dogs food....... actually maybe I shouldn't be giving advice to anyone on parenting.

@milawops with that experience I'm sure you have the best advice to give😂 that's a new worry I have to come🥴😂