Feeding

You can't overfeed with breast milk if they puts you at ease, only formula x

@Georgie so it okay for me to give her extra she is 12days old and weighed 7.4 at birth and is now 7.11 she didn’t drop any of her birth weight no haven’t heard on any babies putting on that much weight that quickly just worried ftm aswell so feel like i’m overthinking everything x

Don't worry, you are overthinking but it's natural! Babies can have as much breast milk as they like (unless it's making them sick but it doesn't sound like that!) you can keep feeding her until she's full, she may be having a little growth spurt x

My daughter didn't lose any of her birth weight, she gained, and she was breastfed too. X

You can’t overfeed a baby. Just give her what she wants x

I think we stretched our wee ones stomach with a bit of over feeding (breastmilk by bottle) when we were giving him 120ml at 2 weeks (starting with 60 and topping up in 30ml increments. It was the face of the midwives we mentioned it to that made me realise it was "too much" for him... The thing is, he would take it all! He is always showing hunger cues, he was cluster feeding at the time. He didn't spit much up if any at all. We do paced feeding with a lansinoh slow flow bottle. Now at 5 weeks and with breastfeeding going a bit better, we give him one bottle of expressed BM a day and he'll take 120 ml bottles, occasionally 150ml. I've made up a 120ml bottle and he's only taken 60ml just 2 nights ago. He has a high suckle need so we're still trying to figure out when he genuinely is hungry and when he's just looking for comfort, we're trying out introducing a dummy only after a good feed to try satisfy his suckling need.

Best advice is to put a sock over the bottle so you can't see how much she's having, just feed according to her hunger cues. Pace feed the bottles and give more when she wants more. If you were feeding from the breast you wouldn't know how much she's eating, so just rely on her behaviour to tell you when she's hungry and when she's full