Baby feed only when crying after midnight

Im a FTM, and my baby is currently 9 days old. He’s on formula milk fully and feed every 3hrs. However sometimes to keep our sanity at night, as he would not sleep at all once he’s awake at night till daylight, we would feed him every 3 hours day to night but after midnight, we would only feed him if he wakes up and cry, can be every 4 hours or so. So far he’s still slowly gaining weight. His jaundice is still within normal range of 191. Is it ok? #firstbaby #FTM

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I do mixed feeding (latch with FM top up) and kept trying to wake my 4 day old baby up to feed every 3 hours but she’s not interested. I mentioned it to the lactation consultant and she told me babies fed with FM/mixed and latched BM have different feeding schedules. If latching have to wake every 3-4 hours to feed cause their intake can’t be tracked. But FM can feed on demand when the baby is hungry.

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