My DD is 10 weeks, EBF with slow weight gain (currently 2-9th percentile, down from 25 at birth). She is generally a quick feeder although I have been trying to encourage her to feed for longer in recent weeks, with variable success! At nights she usually has an initial long stretch of 5 hours, waking around this time. She will then feed for a short while, sometimes only 5 mins, before falling asleep again. I try lots of things to gently waken her and encourage her to continue but she remains asleep. I then put her back down (she sleeps between my husband and I in a Sleepyhead) whereupon she usually remains asleep for a couple of minutes (normally when I have just settled myself back to sleep!) and begins rooting as she is still hungry. This happens 3 or 4 times before she is satisfied.
I'm reluctant to change her nappy as this really wakes her and she thinks it is morning! I've tried side lying nursing but she tends to have even shorter feeds and she struggles to latch herself on (she had TT cut at two weeks but we still have to constantly work on latch) plus I don't feel comfortable co-sleeping when she's not in her sleepyhead.
Any tips for encouraging her to nurse for longer without starting our days at 4am?!
Thanks in advance :)
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how to encourage my DD to feed longer at night?
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Tumtitum · 21/04/2016 04:28
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