Formula fed babies

Has anyone used a formula thickener? My lo is taking 5oz and is 3 weeks on Monday, he feeds for about an hour and finishes or only leaves a tiny bit but then within an hour or even less his unsettling biting and sucking his hands for more milk. This seems a bit much for how small he is and how much his drinking and I don’t remember my first being like this he was every 3 hours so was wondering if the thickeners are any good?
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Hi, I’ve not used a thickener but with my first daughter she was wanting more liquid then her stomach could handle so we got her hungry baby formula, it was aptamil.

My health visitor told me to stick to 4oz for my 5week old because I was giving 5oz as he was routing for it but kept being sick. If baby isn’t being sick and can handle the 5oz stick to it! I tried to use thickener for reflux but found it made his sick really thick and struggled to bring it up x

Do you think he’s using it as a soother instead of hunger? X

@Alex don’t think so as he gets upset as well

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