My beautiful baby boy is 6 days old today. Follloowing csection birth he latched for feeding immediately. Midwives and bf support were pleased with everything. ON coming home he then wanted feeding constantly, do a good 40 min feed and fall asleep, as soon as we moved him to put him down he would scream for feed. Day time is worse and on a night we would get a good 3hrs sleep in his crib between feeds. Until last night from 3am he would not settle and just kept cuing for feed constantly. At day 3 my nipples were so sore I was ready to give up. I was also worried that he was not getting the milk he needed f rom me. My support worker said he was fine, he was not losing weight in fact was only loss of 2% of birth weight when normally is up to 10%. And he's doing plenty of nappies. She said it was probably soothing suckling and we had to try and find other ways to soothe. If he has had a good 40min feed, he won't need a feed again straight away. So we tried everything the full list of things to help soothe, nothing will work and the one thing that does work is asleep on me so I still could not do the me sleep when baby sleeps. It feels like the only way to calm and soothe him is by giving gum to breast on demand for 5 min suckle and then he sleeps. Is this normal, will it cycle out? Am I doing the right thing? Like any mum you worry that everything is ok with your little one especially when they won't stop crying or it seems won't stop feeding. Recovering from csection doesn't make things easy either. The only thing we have noticed st day 6 is his stools are light green/brown and not the full mustard brown it shows on pictures it should be at day 4-5.
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Constantly wants feeding - is it normal and how long willl it last
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Turno1 · 23/07/2017 09:31
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