Hey all. I am after a bit of advice on feeding my 3 week old. He was born a whopping 9lb 5, and dropped 7.5% in the first few days. When the midwife came for his 5 day check, she calculated how much I should be feeding him (exclusively pumping and bottle feeding) and told me to up his feeds to 120-150ml per feed every 3-4 hours. I initially thought this seemed a lot for a 1 week old at the time but followed her advice. At first, he wasnt taking any more than 90ml per feed, but gradually over the next day or 2 he did start to take 110-120. He had reached his birth weight by day 14 and was starting to take closer to the 130-150ml mark on his bottles. He is now 3 weeks old and never seems satisfied after a 150ml feed, often rooting for more 10-15 minutes later and taking at least another 30ml or so before being satisfied and going off to sleep. The constant top ups seem to be dragging his wake windows out and I feel like he is then becoming overtired. I am pace feeding him, he is on size 1 MAM teats. I did try size 0 to try and pace him more but they seemed to give him much more wind so I think he was possibly working too hard on them?
Should I be considering now upping the volume of his bottles? I am super worried about overfeeding him because I keep reading online that you can stretch their stomach. For context, he doesn't spit up hardly at all, burps well (most of the time) and once his tummy is satisfied, sleeps like a log for a couple of hours.
Sorry for the long post, any advice would be appreciated thank you.