Hi,
I seem to have big whopping babies and wonder whether anyone else has and what issues have come up?
Leaving aside the having to give away all the newborn clothes I bought and other people gave since they went straight into 0-3 size and v quickly into 3-6 months (he's just growing out of 3-6 now and is only 3 months!)
My 3 boys were 9lb15, 8lb12 and 9lb7. Each has been a VERY strong sucker and frequent sucker (dunno if this is summat to do with being big?) but each has sucked me into oversupply which I've had to sort out...
And I think one of the reasons I found BF each hard at the beginning was that holding a large heavy baby with no head control was pretty difficult when you don't know what you're doing. Just a theory but I've had latch problems with all 3 at the beginning and I'm sure it's because I've had to juggle them slipping off with holding them too firmly etc...
And for the other two (and I'm anticipating it with this one!) there's been about 1 day around now (3 months-ish) when they've seemed to be feeding regularly every 3ish hours and a longer stretch through the night; and then it shifted back to smaller and smaller periods. I've always assumed this was hunger and I just couldn't make enough with one feed.
The advantages though with mine were they were pretty much on a 2-3 hour schedule from day one, apart from cluster feeding in the evening. I've always assumed this was because they must have had a slightly bigger stomach than other babies and so could take a bit more.
Of course all of this could be complete myth and assumption and I've just got babies who are, er, like this, but I'd be interested to know if other big babies are similar?
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Anyone else BF a BIG baby?
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monkeybird · 27/11/2007 11:11
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