My DD is now 8 weeks old. From about 2 weeks, she becomes very unsettled from about 5-6pm and cries unless she is breast feeding. It's getting a bit better (she will break for BF/crying to let us eat dinner in 5 minutes flat!) but this goes on until about 11pm. She will feed and keep falling asleep every five minutes, but wake when I remove my breast from her mouth and cry for more. Or she will just fuss and fight, pawing at my chest, bobbing on and off. I don't know if she is bothered by low milk flow in the evening or what. She can be fussy sometimes at other times of the day but not like this. It's every evening.
My friend has a baby a similar age who has been going down to sleep at 7pm for a few weeks already.
Am I doing something wrong? Does cluster feeding actually exist or is it just poor routine on my part? Does her baby just not need to cluster feed or have we created this?
If so, is it ok to interrupt cluster feeding? I try and go to bed at about 10 and although DD is very unhappy, DH is able to settle her eventually and she will go to sleep (sometimes not until 11.30) until waking for a feed at about 1am. Am I being neglectful by cutting her off at 10ish, am I meant to see it through each night or is the fact that my DH is able to settle her, a sign that she's not genuinely hungry but fussy?? It's exhausting and wrecking my already wrecked nipples (we are battling tongue tie issues still).
Any help or advice much appreciated!
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Evening fussiness/cluster feeding
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Kstar8 · 23/10/2016 20:56
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