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Parenting & Pregnancy > Feeding & Breastfeeding Should babies be put on feeding schedules or fed on demand?

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Scheduled feeding refers to the principle of feeding your baby every two hours (for example), regardless of whether he is crying with hunger, or asleep, or happily playing with his toes.

Feeding every two hours, should ensure that your baby does not go hungry (at least hopefully not for long) and that he gets the correct amount of milk. However I can see three main SHORT and LONG TERM problems with this structured feeding:

1. Waking up baby - if you feed to a schedule which advises you to wake your baby up if he is asleep at the time he is due a feed, in the short term you are deprivi...

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