Is my newborn over eating or just greedy?

Question

She's 4 days old and she can drink at least 3 ounces a feeding. I breastfed her this morning and decided to bottle feed her two ounces of breast milk I pumped but I still had to breastfeed her again when she was done with the bottle.

Answer

Babies are hungry. Eat. Poop. Eat. Poop.

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If you do give her a bottle, just make sure you’re doing paced feeding (mimics the way milk comes out of your breast) so you can protect your breastfeeding relationship and breastfeed long term

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From what I know a breastfed baby cannot overeat. She will stop when she is full. Sometimes my daughter would breastfeed all day! I felt like a cow!

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becareful introducing a bottle so early, it's reccomendded to wait 6 weeks or until your breastfeeding relationship is established.

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My baby was consuming 3-4 oz about every 2-3 hours I know this because a lactation consultant cane and weighed him before and after being feed and he was 4 days old
I had to pump and bottle feed at this age to because he didn’t have a proper latch and the bottle was suppose to teach him. Don’t worry about bottle feeding this early my baby is totally okay and now we only breastfeed cause the cluster feedings were a lot to handle while pumping. 
I pump 4-5 oz and I was told by a lactation consultant that my baby can eat 2-3 times that amount he is 6 weeks old now.

Is my newborn over eating or just greedy?

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