Feeding advice

I have a very hungry baby, he is 4 weeks old and has 4oz sometimes almost 5. The last two days after he’s finished he is still doing his hungry cues so I thought I’d try him with a little bit more to see and both times he’s been sick an hour after? I don’t want to make him sick again so I will stick to 4 again but he’s just not seeming full. I’ve tried to settle him after the 4 and then give him his dummy ect
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our girl is 4 weeks weeks shes on 4 and a half oz every 3 hours and when shes finished her bottle she always sucks and puts her fingers in her mouth so i thought she was still hungry we upped it to 5 and was sick a few times too! the health visitor said its normal for them to suck after because they dont no when there full or not, i normally feed her on demand when she wants it and it's pretty much every 3 hours every day so surely if she was hungry after her bottle she would be wanting another feed before 3 hours if that makes sense x

we do give her a dummy to suck on, apparently sometimes they just wanna suck rather than wanting milk x

We’ve just upped our 4 week to 5 oz as she was still screaming after 4oz rather than being sleepy after her feed she’s going longer than the 3 hours with that now during the day around 3.5/ 4 hours and the last two nights 5 hours I was worried of over feeding as she is sick after but she’s always been a boker and heath visitor isn’t worried as she’s staying were she should be for her weight gain but we will keep an eye on her over the next week or two

We were feeding our baby 5oz after he was giving us feeding cues but he had horrendous tummy ache. We got him weighed again by our midwife and he’d put on something stupid like 200g in 4 days so we were told that he was being over fed and it was because they get confused between feeding/being hungry and sucking for comfort. We’ve been told to reduce his milk intake to no more than 4oz per feed (he is 4 weeks on Friday). If you are concerned I would get your baby weighed and then use the NHS calculation to work out how much per day they should be having (it’s 150-200ml per KG of their body weight).

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