Feeling very run down caused by BF?

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DD is 5 months and since she's been born, I've had cold after cold after cold. I feel exhausted but that's probably due to poor sleep. She's waking every 1-2hrs at the moment :( I'm fed of of feeling so rough. She's exclusively BF could his be sapping my Vitamin reserves or something?

Feeling run down is probably caused more by the lack of sleep! My Dd slept well for the first 4 months and I felt fine, it's only when she started waking all night long that I started feeling terrible!

Wouldn't hurt to take a multivitamin though! I tend to have low iron so I take that, and vitamin D in the wintertime.

The lack of sleep probably doesn't help at all. You poor thing. I assume you're taking prenatal vitamins still? When my DC1 was born I was told to be sure to take a vitamin supplement while breastfeeding (I breastfed him for 18 months with no major problems).

It's probably a mix of 3 things if u feel like me. The sleep definitely, poor diet as u are grabbing what u can when u can/feel like it and bf. u can continue with pregnacare vitamins during bf after birth. Someone else may know another type.

Well done this far!

Thank you. I've not been taking my prenatal bits but I have some left so its easy enough to start again. No one mentioned I should carry on taking them. Obvious now I think about it. Thank you

I second prenatal vitamins but also eating enough I feel so much worse if I have has a day where I have not eaten enough or just eaten snack food!

I think BFing DD2 sapped my body's meagre reserves. For the first year of her life I was ill time and time again, I started to think there was some awful underlying cause. I'm sure sleep deprivation made it worse but it wasn't the only cause, she slept through from 6 months but I was still really ill. I stopped BFing when she was 14 months and almost immediatly felt better. I'm now pregnant again and will stop BFing earlier if my body has a similar reaction.

So no great advice from me but lots of sympathy. It's horrible to be very run down and in charge of a baby.