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Can he be eating too much?

bornmommybornmommy member
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Anyway this is possible?  I am BF  and giving bottles of my expressed milk.  I'm only asking because DS took two 3oz bottles today and then actively nursed  for 20 mins after.  I feel like that's a lot at once for a 2.5 weeker!   (we obviously nursed in between too... )
              
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                                                            DS #1 born 05/25/2012   
                                                     BFP#2:  06/12/2013 ---- loss 
                                                            DS #2 born 4/08/2014
      BPF#4: 2/1/2016 --- 2/23/2016 suspected molar pregnancy--- 3/15/2016 D&E - diagnosis MM
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Re: Can he be eating too much?

  • bornmommybornmommy member
    Trying to get him used to the bottle for when I go back to work and DH likes to feed him. 
                  
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                                                                DS #1 born 05/25/2012   
                                                         BFP#2:  06/12/2013 ---- loss     
                                                                DS #2 born 4/08/2014
          BPF#4: 2/1/2016 --- 2/23/2016 suspected molar pregnancy--- 3/15/2016 D&E - diagnosis MM
                                                                   BFP#5 - 9/22/2016
                        
                                                                                                                                     * formally bornmommy

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  • colinemmacolinemma member
    It is good to get them used to a bottle if you need them to. It does sound like a lot of milk but he is coming up on a growth spurt, so eating more is expected. Don't worry! I have never heard that you can over feed a baby as long as you are not force feeding them. Our LC told DH when he has to give DS a bottle to hold him like I hold him when he nurses so that he has to work for it...... when you hold babies like many typically think of for bottle feeding, they do not have to work hard for it.....even the slowest flow will let gravity take it's course.
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  • bornmommybornmommy member
    Thank you! We go to the pedi in a few hours so I'll ask for more clarification.  I keep reading that a bf baby cannot be over fed but a ff one can....nothing about expressed milk from a bottle...
                  
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                                                                DS #1 born 05/25/2012   
                                                         BFP#2:  06/12/2013 ---- loss     
                                                                DS #2 born 4/08/2014
          BPF#4: 2/1/2016 --- 2/23/2016 suspected molar pregnancy--- 3/15/2016 D&E - diagnosis MM
                                                                   BFP#5 - 9/22/2016
                        
                                                                                                                                     * formally bornmommy

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