Hi, I'm a single mum and my baby girl is almost 6 weeks. She's a big baby weighing 9 pounds 10 at birth and my goodness she seems to be constantly hungry at the moment. Nightime is the worst. She will not settle and as soon as I stop feeding her she starts getting grizzly and chewing her hand and so I spend all night long breast feeding, bottle feeding and changing her nappy. This goes on til around 4am. I don't produce enough breast milk to meet her needs, but I still breast feed her before each bottle feed and it can take around 40 mins and each bottle feed takes around 30 mins. It's not easy, she fights with the bottle and often stops half way through crying and squirming about as if she's in pain. I suspect she has colic and tried infacol but it hasn't helped.
My baby poos her nappy after each feed and I must change around 10-12 nappies per day.
I am so exhausted it's unreal. I have no help whatsoever so its just me.
Will it get any easier?
Thanks, Sarah
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sarah00001 · 14/08/2015 00:52
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