I'm really struggling with evenings and nights with DD2. Days are fine, she feeds 3 or 4 times but I love it. Nights are hard - she feeds to go to sleep then wakes screaming about an hour later - DH can normally settle her (although it takes 30 mins) but by about 10.30 I end up feeding her again as she is inconsolable. I then feed her again when we go to bed at midnight when she wakes up. Last night she then woke up screaming at 1.30, dh tried to settle her but she was hysterical - when I fed her she wasn't even sucking just kind of sleeping with my nipple tightly clamped in her mouth. She was then up again at 2.30 and I tried to feed her but I started feeling claustrophobic and panicky -I just feel crowded out sometimes and I just couldn't feed her anymore - DH is such a good husb and tried to settle her but she screamed on and off for 2 hours - so I ended up feeding her at 4.45am when she finally gave and slept. I want to continue breastfeeding but sometimes at night I just feel physically sick at the thought of her near me again, I feel like she is just using me like a dummy most of the time. I just want a few hours out of the 24 when a small person is not climbing on my head, lying in my arms or feeding at my breast. Dh is willing to help where he can but she can cry for 2 hours for him and not give up till she gets more breast. Can you believe it has taken me nearly an hour to even type this message as she has been up 3 times since bedtime - now Dh is up there trying to settle her but I can hear her screaming again already. .
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do you ever get to the point where you just don't want baby near you to feed?
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Jenkeywoo · 10/04/2007 20:16
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