In my short bf career so far, the night and early morning feeds have been the best ones - ds is at his most efficient, gets a lot out in a short time and is also satisfied afterwards and will go to sleep, whereas in the afternoon and evening he will feed constantly and seem to be making a lot of effort for very little. Tonight though I've just had a very difficult feed, the reasons for which I don't quite understand. It had taken me a while to settle him after the last feed. Anyway, he woke up at 3.50 (I'm an hour ahead of you) and I put him on the boob, he drank for a few minutes then was suddenly sick - more posseting than anything, but it was very surprising as he was still in the middle of the feed IYSWIM. He was still hungry so I put him on again, he sucked away and seemed to get basically nothing. I was in a real state as I was more or less falling asleep over him (haven't mastered the art of feeding lying down), was very sweaty (used to happen a lot in the early days when I was stressed at feeds) and whatever I did, could not get comfortable. I had to put him down a couple of times because of this. Anyway, I put him on the other boob, which felt a lot fuller, and he was a lot happier and more efficient on that, though it still took a couple of goes at it before he was seemed to have had enough. Then the poor mite got hiccups so we had to wait before he could go back on the boob, which he'd decided he still wanted to. I've just got him off to sleep - it's 6.00, we were feeding for 2 hours so I'm dreading him waking up hungry again very soon. To make matters worse, while I was stumbling about tired I caught his head slightly on a clipboard we've got hanging on his moses basket with detals of his bfs. He protested briefly but seemed OK after that - I'm still worried I've hurt him, though.
As I've only just managed to get bf established (see lengthy thread!) and my worst fear is him starting to refuse the breast again, I'm worried tis could happen after this experience. Is it normal for a feed to be this difficult once in a while after it seems to have been going well - or am I going to carry on struggling?
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Difficult night feed - par for the course or downhill from here?
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berolina · 20/06/2005 05:03
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