DD was born on Monday, and I've breastfed her as her only source of food. Since my milk came in on Thursday, she's been feeding loads. It has the advantage that I haven't had hard boobs, so I've always been able to latch, but I'm exhausted.
She feeds constantly in the evening, and gets really upset and unsettled from about 10pm until 1am. She screams and won't be calmed, even though she surely can't be hungry when I've been feeding her constantly since 7pm? MIL and SIL have suggested a bottle of formula in the evening to fill her up, but I really hate the idea of using a bottle when she's so little. She still doesn't really like the idea of having to "work" for my milk, and we have to nudge her through the feeds to get her to suck properly again, as she'll slip into fast gentle "comfort sucking" instead of proper "drinking sucking". I think that a bottle will make that problem worse.
I'm really struggling though. Does anyone have any ideas to calm her down? Is she getting enough food? She does produce lots of wet nappies and a couple of dirty nappies a day, so there's plenty coming out of the other end.
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HELP!!! BFing 6 day old baby, no sleep!
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MrsTittleMouse · 22/10/2006 11:49
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