Hi, can anyone help me. I have a 2.5 week old son - my first - and we have just been signed off by the midwife and left to continue on-demand breastfeeding. However, I'm concerned that he doesn't wake up and demand food often enough. He certainly feeds voraciously when he does wake, but sometimes he'll go for 5 hours or more without feeding if we don't go and poke him and from what I've seen this isn't usual with such a young baby. Any advice? Should I be trying to make him feed more often? It seems a shame to wake him when he's sleeping peacefully, but at the moment I've been waking him every four hours or so just to be on the safe side.
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BF on demand - how often should he be demanding?
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mootthing · 02/06/2009 13:56
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