13weeks, Ebf am I still doing this right?

[Missfrumpsalot]

Hello, you've all been amazing before so I'm back for more reassurance and a bit of guidance.
DD is 13+4 and finally weighs 10'4 and is well above the bottom centile.
My approach to feeding due to her weight gain issues has been very much, feed feed feed, if she makes a noise feed. Its worked in terms of weight gain but I don't know if its sustainable. We co sleep and at the moment after an initial 3hour burst, she's feeding every 1.5 hours. During the day I might get 2 hours if I'm lucky.
She also refuses to nap unless feeding. Would ideally like to get her to nap in her basket soon as she will be going to nursery in April and naps will be needed. I also have had zero success expressing so need to get her to accept a bottle at some point (no luck with dummies either)

Any advice?

13 weeks is still pretty tiny! I didn't manage to get DD to nap in cot consistently until she was about 4.5 mo. Didn't manage to stop feeding to sleep (at night) until she was about 5.5-6 mo. Nursery will have other magic ways of getting her to sleep, that combined with the peer pressure of the other babies sleeping will mean she'll nap differently, possibly even better, for them.

Re. the bottle - I never managed to get DD to take one. DH taught her to drink ebm from a doidy cup when she was 4 mo. Trick is to try bottle, or cup, or whatever, every day and keep trying. He made it into a game, did it when she wasn't necessarily hungry, at the same time each morning. She got it after about 4 days.

Feeding to sleep at such a small age no problem. Also agree nursery will have lots of tricks to help with that and 3 months in a baby's life at this age is a long time.

• allow lots of settling in sessions at nursery

-try different bottles or a doidy cup

• get someone else to give bottle so can't smell milk on you and don't wait until they are ravenous, hungry but not likely to get grumpy

GL :)

PS - Have you tried hand expressing? Found it to be quickest way for me.

Thanks for your advice, hand expressing could be worth go- will give that a bash