Keeping up with baby's appetite

My child has consistently been eating 4oz every hour either breast milk or formula. I produce about 2oz every 3 hours and have tried everything to produce this much. Is it even possible at 4 months to produce this much?

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I would like to know this as well. With my 10 week old he can drink 5-6 oz from a bottle, but when I pump during a bottle feeding i only get 2-4 ounces. Is my pump on the wrong setting?

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My daughter did the same thing. Now during some of her feedings especially before bed she will eat 8 oz

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I think there’s ways to try increase your supply like hydration etc but the main thing I would also check is that the flange size is correct, the pump is a hospital grade one and the parts don’t need replacing xx

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I've experienced this and had luck w below settings to increase my supply:
- drink water before and during
- start with highest massage setting (60 / 5 on mine) and maintain for 2 mins
- at 2 min mark, switch to express setting highest level (48/12 on mine). Do this for 8 mins.
-at 10 min mark, switch back to massage (60/50)
- ar 12 min mark, switch back to express, but a bit lower setting (42/12 on mine). Maintain til 15 min then done

You'll likely run out of milk early in process, but keep going, this tells your body to make more

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Pumping output is ZERO indication of what baby can get out. Some women cant get any milk out pumping but have ni supply issues. Its also hell of a lot easier to get milk out of a bottle than the breast so babies tend to keep chugging on a bottle. Trust your titties is what i always say 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤣🤣

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She eats from me and then is still hungry. Sometimes her mouth will hurt so bad she can only do bottle

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