Should I suggest pace feeding or...?

Question

So my baby girl is in daycare. She’s 10 weeks old, and during the day she will take about 5-6 ounces of breast milk per feeding and go 3ish hours in between. So today, she had 3 bottles which makes it about 15 ounces give or take, and then before I got home from work my husband fed her another bottle around 5 ounces. So a total of 20 ounces for the day. 
I’ve had people say that’s a lot for nursing baby to eat that much and they suggested pace feeding. My daycare lady said she hasn’t pace fed but tries to take it away at 3-4 ounces and she gets very upset. I just kinda feel like feed the girl if she’s hungry...? Am I wrong or?? 
TIA

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I asked my pediatrician how much my 10 week baby should eat and he said between 23-26oz a day.

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That's not too much. It should come out to about an ounce per hour, so you're looking at about 24 ounces a day being an average. Some will eat a little more and some a little less, and it may vary slightly from day to day

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I would let her eat what she needs. Ideally you want her to consume more milk during the day so she doesn't need as much over night.

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If she’s hungry and not spitting up don’t reduce her milk. My 2 month drinks the 25oz-30oz per day depending on if he gets up once or twice at night 30 oz if he gets up to eat twice if not 25oz daily. Just keep doing what your doing

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My 9 week old eats about 29 to 30 oz a day and we feed him 5 oz to 5.5 oz a feeding. We actually work with ml and kilos and to decide how much a baby should eat on a day you multiply their weight with 150.
For mine that is not enough though so we multiply it with 165 instead of 150 :p so 165 x 5250 = 866 ml which is about 29 oz
Also, this is with formula, breastmilk usually is way less heavy so when I gave that we even used 180 instead of 165. Just feed on demand, if it is too much they will spit up a lot

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No advice, but my baby also eats more than the recommended range. She eats 28-32 oz per day, occasionally as much as 34 oz. She doesn’t spit up and is at 45% for weight and 90% for height. 20 oz during the day doesn’t seem that crazy to me unless she is eating a ton at night too.

Should I suggest pace feeding or...?

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