Feeding times

Hey, I'm exclusively breastfeeding my little girl who is 8 days old.
I'm using the Huckleberry app to track feeds so I can stick to the 3 hours until she regains her birth weight but I've noticed she was feeding for around 3 hours 30 mins average for a few days but it has been going down, like Tuesday was 2 hours 43mins and weds was 2 hours 23 mins and then today is only 1 hour 43 and I dont expect she'll have more than another 20 minutes before midnight when my clock starts again.

Is this normal due to transitioning from colostrum to milk coming in full flow? My milk came in Sunday.

My LG had dropped 10% of birth weight on day 5 and gained by day 7 to 6.6% under so she has been going in the right direction but now shes having less time again I'm worried shes not having enough.

Any ideas or advice on this?

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