How many hours between baby feeding?
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If baby is back to birth weight, feeding on demand is perfect. I've never seen anything that says she should be feeding every 2 hours. That seems an awful short time.
Every 2-3 hrs is recommended for the first few weeks. Baby might not be waking up for feeds yet. I think I stopped waking my girl at 3 weeks and just let her feed on demand. She’s now 9 weeks and in the 89th percentile. Also, there were several times where she went past three hours and was totally fine. She sleeps through the night now and goes 7-9 hours without a feed
@Kirsten she had surpassed birth weight by 3 oz at her check up at 5 days old! Haha now she’s 9 days old and usually wakes on her own to eat, but it’s typically like 4 hours between. I also have pretty fast milk so she nurses about 10 minutes usually and then is done. I typically collect 2.5-3 oz of let down on the other side during that 10 minutes
Sounds like bub is doing well. I too had a lot of letdown. Was wild.
Feed on demand if baby demands the breast every 3 hrs then that’s what it is. Your supply will be based on the demand. Cluster feeding will come up soon that might change very soon