Hopipolla
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Hi,
I was bf my son up until he was two weeks old. I had mastitis and it become too painful. I fed on demand. He always fed a lot on Breast milk. I switched to formula and he has no pattern of when or how much milk he was taking, I duscussed this with a gp who said he will be going through a growth spurt and as long as he's not being sick it was ok to feed on demand. He has recently been treated for reflux and have been told by a different doctor that what I was doing Is all wrong and he should be getting 5 5oz bottles in 24 hours. I tried this but it didn't work. If I didn't feed him when he was hungry he screamed the house down. I tried 3oz bottles every three hours but he would cry after the 3oz because he was still hungry. He might have a 3oz bottle then want another 3oz an hour later or sometimes he's satisfied from it. He might have a 5oz bottle then then 2oz 2 hours later. He had no pattern. I have tried many other ways of trying to settle him but he shows signs of hunger and nothing else will work.
Does anyone elses baby do this? He is 5 weeks old. Has anyone managed to get their LO into a routine? He sleep between two and four hours at a time on a night. He only wakes up for feeds. I feel stuck. I don't want to overfeed him but then I hate to see him upset when he's hungry and I'm not feeding him. Can anyone help?
I was bf my son up until he was two weeks old. I had mastitis and it become too painful. I fed on demand. He always fed a lot on Breast milk. I switched to formula and he has no pattern of when or how much milk he was taking, I duscussed this with a gp who said he will be going through a growth spurt and as long as he's not being sick it was ok to feed on demand. He has recently been treated for reflux and have been told by a different doctor that what I was doing Is all wrong and he should be getting 5 5oz bottles in 24 hours. I tried this but it didn't work. If I didn't feed him when he was hungry he screamed the house down. I tried 3oz bottles every three hours but he would cry after the 3oz because he was still hungry. He might have a 3oz bottle then want another 3oz an hour later or sometimes he's satisfied from it. He might have a 5oz bottle then then 2oz 2 hours later. He had no pattern. I have tried many other ways of trying to settle him but he shows signs of hunger and nothing else will work.
Does anyone elses baby do this? He is 5 weeks old. Has anyone managed to get their LO into a routine? He sleep between two and four hours at a time on a night. He only wakes up for feeds. I feel stuck. I don't want to overfeed him but then I hate to see him upset when he's hungry and I'm not feeding him. Can anyone help?
