Hi Everyone
My DD is 6 wks old, she only seems to feed for about 5 mins (without two periods of big jaw opening sucking) and then falls asleep. I try to wake her up by changing her nappy, winding, stroking her, moving her arms and legs, touching hands etc but if she wakes up she falls asleep again 5 mins later. Sometimes I put her down to sleep and she'll stay asleep for an hour or sometimes she wakes up after about 10 mins and I try to feed her again.
As a result of this she feeds very frequently, she's been putting on weight steadily (7lbs 4.5 at birth and 8lbs 12 last Tues) and has lots of wet and dirty nappys (of late they have been greeny tinged and Thurs night had one that was green/black but only a tiny amount and HV said as the next one was mustard not to worry).
Does anyone have any advice? I wonder if she's not very hungry as she's feeding so often but I don't think I can delay her when she's screaming for food (I had been trying to feed her when she showed the early hunger signs because sometimes we have terrible problems with her fighting and kicking at the breast and getting really upset).
Thanks
Lucy
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Baby always falls asleep at breast after 5 mins of feeding - any advice?
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Lucy1977 · 26/03/2006 20:09
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