Apologies, this might seem a bit long winded but wanted to give some background in case it helps.
DD is 11 weeks today. She was born by emcs and due to some complications it was a good couple of hours before her first feed and then she slept and slept...I kept asking if I should feed her but kept getting told at first she was sleeping off the birth and then how content she was as she lay fast asleep. Because of the CS at first I couldn't get to her myself and then struggled as the first time she really wanted to feed was night-time (she was born just after midnight - so approx 22 hours later)and I was knackered but did what I could. When we got home she would feed 20-45 min each side and go upto 4 hours from start of last feed. She even did a couple of 7 hours at night. She mostly slept between feeds. I realise now I probably shouldn't have left her so long but we had lots of visitors and time seemed to fly.
At about 3 weeks things seemed to go down hill. Rather than do a long feed then sleeping she would fall asleep after a very short feed and if i tried to put her down would then wake and cry for more. So feeds would last hours - but she wouldn't actually be feeding all that time. This was hard enough to cope with in the day as hubby was back at work and I also have a 3yo, but was also happening at night, so I started giving a bottle of ebm when she woke and then expressing for the following night - this meant being up around 2 hours in the night. I then started giving bottles in the day to overcome the problem of not being able to move from the couch for hours (I was fed up of telling DS I couldn't do x,y and z for him right now because I'm feeding DD) and also feeding in public was hard because it took so long and she kept falling of asleep so had to keep re-latching.Because I didn't always have enough or any ebm I ended giving some ff. I'd pretty much decided to swap over - much to delight of dmum and dsis, both of whom ff and just don't really get bf. Anyway had to express to stop becoming engourged and found it hard to stop as I was getting a lovely bottle of free nutritious milk. So ended up where possible giving ebm which is now about 70% of feeds. I've realised I would like to go back to bfing and try to cut out the ff now that she is more alert. Sometimes she latches and feeds fine but sometimes she gets really fussy and just won't try to latch.This seems to be more in the afternoon / early evening when my supply seems quite low ( might only get combined 1.5oz) but can be other times. How can I boost my supply then and also deal with the other fussy times without leaving her hungry if I don't give topups? She doesn't want to suckle after a feed and gets upset if I try to get her to feed more. I do want her to continue with the bottle dh gives late at night so i can go to bed earlier but would prefer if it could be ebm rather than ff.
If you've managed to read allthis without falling asleep thanks and any ideas gratefully received.