Posting from hospital after having a beautiful little boy yesterday by cs. I had a cs for DS1 in July 2012. Being a paranoid first time mum I ended up starting mix feeding in hospital as I was so worried ds1 wasn't getting anything. He did lose over 10% of his body weight in first month. I mix fed for a few months, about half and half, and then 'ebf' if you can call it that when it got a lot easier after starting to introduce solids.
Ds1 was always very hungry and would cluster feed all evening and not be put down. We ended up in a co-sleeping mess with him only feeding to sleep and sometimes this could be every half an hour to hour for up to ten times a night (was happy to co sleep but just not the constant feeding). Eventually at around 11 months I cracked and got a sleep trainer consultant.
We managed to stop feeding to sleep and get him in his cot in his own room. It was great! But a few months later illness, teething, co sleeping on holidays saw me crashing out with him every night (albeit now sharing a single mattress on his floor) and him needing me to go to sleep at every wake up, just with cuddles not feeding after we gave up bf at 13m.
A top up session with the sleep expert finally seems to have fixed things and he can now be tucked in and go to sleep! This happened 2 weeks before I gave birth to the next one. He still wakes at least once but can be quickly resettled.
Anyway so I was hoping I could learn from some of my mistakes and I think it was issues with feeding that led to this being that he was never satisfied. The books used to say wake him to feed around every 2 then later 3 hours in the day but he was never bloody asleep that long. I know that it's only been night 1 with the newborn but his insistence on spending 4 hours from 1sm until 5am wanting to feed constantly put the fear in me last night. I want to ebf properly this time, hopefully build up a good supply so this baby isn't always chomping at the bit as it were. Any advice on how to do this and how to maybe make sure/try to feed regularly throughout the day so that he is more tanked up over night?
Sorry - it's really long - will be grateful if anyone has stayed with me!
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Get advice and support with infant feeding from other users here.
Infant feeding
Help me not get in a feeding/sleeping mess this time...?
6 replies
freelancegirl · 24/12/2014 06:43
OP posts:
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.