Fussy period at night, on & off the breast

[Bumperlicious]

Firstly stuck feeding & on iPhone so sorry for typos. Dd2 seems to always have a fussy period. She has currently been feeding on & off for about 3 hours. I don't mind, usually it is 2am which is horrific. But she's not even feeding properly, pulling off the breast but then rooting again, falling asleep but then complaining when o try to put her down.

I can cope with it this time of night but it is usually the middle of the night & I am barely functioning through lack of sleep. Any advice?

sorry, no real advice just sympathy. my DD does the same thing midnight till 3 am and only finally falls asleep with a dummy. have asked every midwife I've seen about it and all say its normal. only thing that gets me through it is making sure I had a nap. oh, and some expressed milk handy as filling her belly sometimes calms her enough to latch. good luck, I feel your pain.

It could be something.

It could be nothing.

You may never know.

It's bloody irritating when it happens, but then next week it will have passed and she'll be onto something new.

Don't stress yourself about it.

How old is she?

mine is 10 days. don't know about OP

Well mine was such a complete pain at night, literally and figuratively, that I ended up giving her bottles for weeks on end. Back to EBF now, at 16 weeks, and she seems to have settled down a bit. No doubt the 4 month growth spurt will put paid to that!

DD's other fussy period used to be around 8pm until midnight. I spent pretty much all evening, every evening, just feeding her, but that's pretty common I guess.

I don't know if anyone knows why they do this, except possibly lower milk flow/supply?

She is 18 days. It's killing me! Have 3 yo dd1 so day time naps out of the question. I really want bfing to work out so trying to hold off on dummies/bottles for as long as possible.

Can't tell whether she really is hungry, gassy or just comfort sucking. Thing is it's still a bit painful so the coming on & off isn't helping.

Bump

She was doing a good sleep, except last night it was 2.5 hours, then up feeding again for an hour then 3 hours

I suppose my worry is why she is on an off the breast, it's not like it is even cluster feeding as half the time she is not even feeding (I don't think) she is struggling to stay latched on or pushing her face into the breast. It's not helping my nipples at all!

Sounds like a growth spurt. I've been there! It's just a phase so it will pass eventually. Hang tight!

My DD is 2 weeks and have had this for a week now. A couple of minutes feed then too sleepy to latch, then a couple of minutes later she's hungry again!

Always evening through to about 2am ish so really disrupts sleep. Does a growth spurt go on this long or is she just 'getting going' as she's so new do you think?

Bumper, bfing usually takes more than a few weeks before it's well established for both mother and baby. As do baby's sleep patterns - amazing how easily we forget these things, even with older kids who are still little!

Just take everything slowly (well, as much as possible with a 3 yo) and remind yourself continually that these phases shall pass, and in 6, 8, 10, 12, etc weeks from now things will be SO different.

Good luck!