Difficulty breastfeeding at night

[LePetitPont]

I have a lovely two week old. He's taken to bf really well and in the day will latch on and feed beautifully. Up to 40 mins at a time, between every 2 and 3.5 hours as he demands.

At night however (say 1 and 3/4 am feed) he is a different story. He bobs on and off, cries, frets - he roots but won't go back on. We rock / walk to calm then start the cycle again. He usually needs a dirty nappy chance in there too. Eventually he'll suck for comfort and nod off but not always.
After this faffing, i am finding it hard to go back to sleep myself.

My boobs let down really quickly, bless him. We xo-sleep but not quite got the knack of lying down to feed as yet which I suspect doesn't help when I try in the night!

I guess after reassurance this is normal or ideas I can try to improve?

Thanks

Sounds totally normal to me. You could always talk it through with a BFC, the helpline numbers are here.

Congratulations on your new Lo too

Mine did this for a while too. I think when they're half asleep they struggle to remember how (it's new for them too).

I sometimes squeezed a little milk out into the sink to make the let down less 'fierce', also cupped my boob in my hand which seemed to help her.

She is now 3 weeks and doesn't do it anymore, so in my experience they grow out of it (and pick up new alarming habits e.g. mine decided she doesn't want to poo in her usual pattern all of a sudden!).

I had a bit of this; turned out to be mostly due to two different things - I wasn't sitting up as much as daytime feeds in a chair and had insufficient light to line up the latch as I would in daylight. As a result he wasn't latching so well at night. Could be just a phase for yours as pp have said but worth checking if you're doing things slightly differently during the day/night.