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I started feeding on demand from the very beginning, but we didn't have any serious problems. She's also just started going longer than an hour between feedings (only when she's awake... she goes much longer when sleeping). According to everything I've read, you should produce according to demand. If you're worried about it, maybe pumping between feedings will help keep supply up.

We've fed on demand since the beginning, even when we had to supplement the first couple of weeks because LO had problems latching. She normally eats every 2-3 hours, but sometimes when she is cranky or going through a growth spurt (she's almost 8 weeks) she will eat every hour. At night she'll do one 5 hour stretch of sleep.

From day 4ish? The clinic at our hospital said I should try and feed her every 2 hours(!) until she reached her birthweight, but it was such a fight to wake her and feed her. Plus she was a great eater, lost less than 5% of her weight before she started gaining again and had no jaundice. My instincts said go on deans an it was way better.

I always feed on demand. My supply always changes based om her needs.

She fed on demand since day 1 and established her own feeding and sleep schedule.