to breastfeed for 6 & a half hours?

[froubylou]

I don't think I am. DM seems to think I am bu though.

But I was very good and slept through her very important hair appointment that she begged me to this morning. I did wake up and flirt a bit with the hairdresser and the other customers at the end. And I was very good on the bus on the way home mainly because dm says she has a car and we will be using that when she has fully recovered from having me.

But when we got home from the hairdresser's and town I was very hungry. So had both boobs twice. Then she muttered something about mopping the floors and putting me in my chair for a bit.

Now I'm not being entitled I don't think but I had been in my pram for a couple of hours and although it's a nice pram dm needs to realise that I should be cuddled for most of the time.

She should know this. I have an older dsis so dm isnt exactly a novice.

So just to remind her I have had her nipples in my mouth since 2pm today.

She is now muttering about 5 weeks old not being a typical growth spurt age. And complaining that she aches from being on sofa too long.

Do you think I would bu to keep bfing until she falls asleep? I am really sleepy myself but know if I try and have a snooze she will try and put me down. She needs to learn I think.

hugs, hugs and more hugs for you

I think you should store all this anger until your teeth come through, then you can use the boobs as a teething ring.

You are a lucky little baby :)

If your baby wants to feed, then you feed your baby.

Doesn't matter if it's a 10 minute snack, or a 10 hour cluster feed. You just go with the flow.

Obviously you are going through a growth spurt, so I think you are being reasonable, obviously it will be difficult for your mum though, so make sure you are unbearably cute afterwards to remind her why she is putting her nipples through this torture.

Ask your Mummy to buy some fennel teabags and drink fennel tea several times a day.
Tell her the fennel tea tastes yummy.
It will increase her breast milk supply.

Or replying as my 6 month old dd: WIBU to bite my dm's nipple earlier because that boob has mastitis and wasn't working properly? I don't have any teeth yet just rock hard gums so I don't see why she needed to yelp so loud and stop feeding me.

Oooh defo nbu. My dm seemed to think putting me down when I was tiny was a good idea too. I soon taught her!!

And now I'm 1 I find a gentle reminder every now and again is all it takes. Take today for instance, I have these white things coming in my mouth that don't half cause a bit of jip do it was only fair to play merry hell and cling to dm all day. She's taken to nick naming me Velcro now, whatever that is!!

Dear froubylou, please go easy on your DM soon. She may go completely frothing mad, and its remarkably difficult to mop floors like that. She has my sympathy and I hope she has a good DVD collection. X

I'm still miffed that the big people put me in a cage at night, I liked the king size bed! You can't lie spread eagled on the angle in this cot thing, pah!

You have to keep them in line I think.

She woke up all smug this morning cos I had gone 4 hours. Silly girl needs to know that was just because I was a bit tired and not because tgat will be a regular thing. Mind you we had a lovely time playing for 2 hours after that big sleep. I don't think she wanted to get up at 7am though with dsis. But she needs to learn you can't have too much sleep as a dm otherwise that very expensive concealer won't get used.

Going to let her put me down for 10 mins. Then be sick. All over everything. Then scream when she has to change me. That should wake df up who is apparently a useless fucker tonight.

He came home a bit pissed and forgot the milk. And took the dog put even though dm had told him not to as she is in season. The dog not dm.

Oh and if I go offline its cos she will have swaddled me. Sigh. That does mean I can scream!

roarmiaow, I'm a great supporter of breastfeeding and breastfed my three into toddlerhood, but this mum is doing a sterling job and needs encouragement, not to be told off for letting off a bit of steam about it. I've always fed on demand but "going with the flow" is easier with your first baby than the next, when you have a toddler to consider as well, and don't really have the luxury of cocooning mother and baby away for a few months. So even though you didn;t ask, YABU to be so condescending roarmiaow

I think you have a very old soul froubylou and are right on course to become an excellent MNer (in due course and presuming your DM toes the line so you grow up big and strong. So far so good)

I didn't think roarmiaow was condescending - I thought she was agreeing you should go with the flow, whether that's long or short.

You are a lucky little baby and, even though your mummy is tired right now, she will feel nostalgic about all these lovely cuddles when you are a teenager.

Yanbu to feed whenever you want, as you are only 5 weeks old. Of course it is a bit hard on your mummy, but she clearly loves you lots and lots. Perhaps you are having a growth spurt (not all babies do this at exactly the same time) or perhaps there is another reason. No doubt you will space your feeds out a bit more as you get older.

It was very clever of you to wait for four whole hours between feeds even just one time when you are so little. I hope you feel like doing this again tonight so that your mummy gets some precious sleep.

Yanbu. Lots and lots of breastfed babies do that, so why shouldn't you? Just give her a bit of a break sometimes though. But not to do housework.

YANBU as long as you give DM lots of sleep tonight. If not YABU.

YANBU. You know what's really lovely though? If your DM puts you down in her bed (made all safe for you of course) and lies down next to you all snuggly and feeds you there. Then you can both have a nice sleep WHILE you're feeding! It took my DM ages to figure this out but once she did there was less moaning from her, result.

-BabyGarlic

Ah yes, if you can convince your mummy to take you into bed with her, you may find that you can feed all night in a lying down position, and she might hardly even notice.

I am 13 months old, and I still do this quite happily. Fortunately, I didn't have to train my mummy, as my older brother had already fought that battle for me. When he was a baby, she was always trying to put him in a cot (because everybody told her that she should) but he cried and cried and wouldn't settle so eventually she gave up and learned to feed him while she was sleeping. I have never even seen a cot, because my mummy said she couldn't be bothered even trying to argue this time round - she would rather just roll over and plug in a breast.

I hope you are sleeping now, and that your mummy is sleeping too.

My mummy is making me sleep in the cot as she is black and blue, daddy gets the head she gets the feet, plus I am like Steve McQueen in that I try to escape.......

Well she tricked me in the end. Swaddled me up in my nice blanky and fed me to sleep. I was a bit tired though.

So I let her have a couple of hours sleep before I woked her up. And then went 3 hours at a time which is really good for my age I fink.

And useless fecker daddy had to go to work this morning so we have had a bit of a lie in. Dsis is away this weekend too. So mummy should be nice and rested for round 2. I am looking forward to that right booby for breakfast as it looks really fulk and ready for me. Yummy.

She thinks she is going to get some housework done and build that chest of drawers that came for my sister. Silly mummy!