6 week old baby - is this normal?

[Spinosaur]

Hello,

My DD is 6 weeks old and I am breastfeeding her. She is ok at night, she wakes to feed and goes back to sleep (I am co-sleeping) She is fine through the day but then, about 2pm onwards she just wants to cling to my boob. If I put her down she cries, if she falls asleep and I put her down she cries and if she goes to another person she cries. I am really tired by then and just concerned about how I should be responding. Do I put her down but comfort her, let her hang on my boob or what? It is a long time since I had a baby (next DC is 7) and am out of practice. Advice please.

from my own experience of 4 babies, this is normal....its the evening cluster feed...i know its not technically evening, but its heading to darkness...i used to sit with my last DD clamped on for 3 hours every evening whilst everyone else cooked/fetched me drinks etc...try to make yourself as comfortable as possible and just relax and enjoy the closeness...i dont remember it going on for more than a few weeks but over time i learnt to recognise when she had fed herself to sleep enough for me to put her down...but do you need to fit a school run into this time?

I do the morning and evening school run most days. I guess I am just looking for reassurance that this is just one of those things that babies do. I find her crying difficult to deal with. she seems quite calm today after yesterday's party!

Yes sounds normal and could be a growth spurt. My 3rd son was like this most of the day for a while around 6 weeks - BIL joked that he had only seen the back of his head for months!

at 6 weeks i decided to give dd1 a dummy. she was just a sucky baby tbh. it was like a godsend. ds1 was the same but he needed to be fed and wasn't interested in a dummy at all. we had to dance with him for 5 hours every evening as if we stopped moving he would scream or need to be fed. dd2 wouldn't take a dummy and screamed for pretty much the first two years whether we held her or not.

yes. it's normal. try a dummy.

Thank you all for reassurance. We did try a dummy but she looked at me and spat it out, almost contemptuously! I feel a bit calmer and more prepared to go with the flow a bit more. :)