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He should be soon start to space out his feedings on his own and it is okay to let him have the paci for little bit to soothe himself. My son is almost 11 weeks and he eats during the day between 2-4 hours depending on if awake or not. If he is napping it can be up to 4 hours before he wakes himself up to eat.
At night he tends to go close to 4.5 to 5 hours between feedings. I know usually what I do is if I need to change his feeding habit or timing different, I will try to have him eat even if he isn't rooting just to take the edge off a bit then that seems to satisfy him enough to hold off for say half an hour to hour or so.
You need to do what feels right to you.
My baby is 4 months old and still eats every 2-3 hours during the day. I asked the doctor what to do, and she said try to feed her more at each feeding. But I'm not going to force her to eat if she's full. So I just deal with it. I don't think there's much you can do. You have to feed them when they're hungry!
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Baby X is almost 6 wks old and EBF, and since he's been born, his "normal" feeding schedule has been for there to be about an 90min between the start of feedings. The exceptions are when he's cluster feeding (where he eats every 30-90 minutes around the clock; there have been 4 or 5 of those days) or when he's sleeping (he usually sleeps for long blocks of 3 hours or so at night and sometimes for naps-- he's a champ that way).
Anyway, is it possible or even desirable at this point to encourage him to space his feedings out a bit more? For my own sanity, I'd LOVE to have a little extra time between feedings. But (because I've had the stomach flu & mastitis), I'm still working on establishing/building up my supply. I'm getting different opinions from the pediatrician (yes, give him the pacifier to soothe him, and get him to space out his feedings more so that they're closer to 2 hours apart) and the lactation consultant (no, breastfeed him on demand, on his schedule, and wait for him to space out the feedings on his own).