DD is 18 weeks and is mainly breastfed, apart from the odd bottle of formula or ebm here and there. She has been sleeping through from 7ish until about 5.30 for about 7 weeks now, with the odd night waking a bit earlier but then she feeds for 10 mins and usually goes back until at least 7 or 8am.
During the day she mostly feeds 2 hourly. Sometimes she'll go longer, at other times less. But, she does tend to cluster feed between 5 and 7.
I think I may answer my own question here but would still be grateful for some input. The past few days, I can't seem to keep up with demand around bed time, I really don't think the milk is there. The last 2 nights, she has fed from both sides and then had 4oz of formula on top of that and still woke up at 3am.
I did join slimming world last week and i'm sure I'm eating enough because i'm not going hungry. You can have lots of extra's like cheese etc when you're bf. However, I have been having a lot of late nights recently (mn is mainly to blame) and I know i'm not drinking enough.
Could these 2 factors really affect my milk that much? I really don't want to give up. It took me ages to get the hang of it and now I have I don't intend to give up easily. Would it help if I express at night and use that as a top up the next night. It will keep that long won't it in the fridge. What I mean is, I don't really want to give that much formula as I kind of feel/want that i'm enough iyswim, at least until she starts weaning.
Thanks for reading this far