Hi
DD2 is 4 weeks old today! I breastfed DD1 for 20 months, she is now 4. I really want to breastfeed DD2 for at least a year but am having a few problems.
She seems to want to feed constantly between 6 through to midnight and will drop off to sleep but the minute i try to burp her she wakes up or a few minutes after putting her in her crib she is up. She is happy to look around for a bit and then she starts crying to be nursed and so the cycle repeats itself until she eventually sleeps at midnight and then will wake after 3 hours. During the day she will go for either 2 or 3 hours between feeds (but only because she is asleep).
DH has tried to get her to sleep without nursing to give me a break and with a dummy which she takes at first then spits out and wants me again.
I have tried to express but could only get 80ml out of my right breast (did this whilst feeding her on left) I dont know if she is not getting enough now, last night i gave her a formula feed at 9.30, 120ml and she drank it all and then half an hour later she wanted more milk from me. DH tried to help by getting her away from me for a bit but she starts crying and gets so hysterical that when she does come back to me she calms down right away and then falls asleep = and when we put her down she wakes right up again and the cycle of feeding falling asleep burping and getting up and doing it again starts.
I am so tired/confused i dont remember doing this with DD in the early weeks, feel like giving up as i dont get to spend time with DD1 as im so tired or cranky. Someone told me to just leave her to cry it out and she will learn to sleep on her own but it breaks my heart when she cries for me with DH so how can i do that to her?
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denise77 · 19/11/2010 09:01
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