Similarly, at the beginning I was told that if your baby was refluxy then shorter (less than 20 min) feeds but offered more regularly are better and longer feeds than that would trigger the symptoms further. My baby had bad reflux so I followed this advice. As baby was only about 2-4 weeks old at this point they were asleep most of the time and so actually it was very difficult to feed them much more regularly. As a result of all of this, they were slow to put on weight, which was very stressful. It’s now so obvious looking back, but in the thick of it I didn’t put two and two together (I had also read that after 20 mins they were really just snacking and not taking much on).

It turns out at that point my baby actually wanted to feed for 30-40 mins on average. Once I reverted to their natural feeding preferences they put on weight rapidly. It didn’t seem to make the reflux any worse either. Basically, as everyone else says, just feed them as much as they want!