Breast feeding on demand

My little one is almost 14 weeks and I’m still feeding on demand, sometimes she wants more an hour after a feed and other times it’s 3-4 hours. Is this ok or should I be starting to make her wait longer in between feeds?
We also cosleep so she wakes every 3 hours sometimes 2 hours for a feed during the night.
I just want to make sure I’m not feeding her too often? I also think she uses me for comfort as she doesn’t like a dummy.
Any advice on what I should be doing would be great as I’m a FTM

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I wouldn't worry as I was told you can't over feed a bf baby ❤️❤️

No I'm 13 months in and still feeding my twins on demand. I don't think you can over feed x

We're 7 months in and still breastfeed on demand. Every baby is different but the advice is that you can't overfeed a breastfed baby

You can’t overfeed a BF babe but mine is happy with a dummy if he does happen to wake at night x (couple of times he has let me know the dummy is not sufficient thank you mummy, and I feed him 😂) I love being baby led x

I never even heard that feeding a breastfed baby on demand is bad 🤷 you cannot overfeed them anyway. It's very different when bottles come into the picture.

Thanks all, I had heard you can’t over feed a BF baby but wasn’t sure if you should stop feeding on demand around a certain age. I feel bad as sometimes I do offer the boob when I can’t settle her even though I know she’s just tired. If she took a dummy I would offer her this but I just don’t want her to get used to the boob as a comfort thing

Incognito, She’s been using the breast as a comfort thing since birth… 😝 good luck

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