when does breast feeding get easier??

[joorla]

hi
my dd is 8 wks old - at the moment i'm combining breast and bottle feeding. solely breast feeding during the night and giving her 2/3 bottles (120 ml) plus breast feeding during the day.
I want to switch back to solely breast feeding (which i did in the first 5 weeks) but this morning i breastfed her at 7.30, 9.30, 10.30 and 11.30 and she was still crying and rooting for more so I caved in and gave her a bottle. Similar happened this afternoon. This is why I started to give her bottles in the first place because she always seemed so hungry and had started to feed for 30/40 mins at a time and be ready for more an hour later.
I dont even know if she is actually taking milk as she seems to suck for a few mins and then sit there with her eyes closed doing gentle sucking motions, so not sure if she is just going on there for comfort.
any advice would be really welcome - I dont want to give up breast feeding but am getting to the end of my tether and feel ready to cry cos I really dont want to give up but I also dont want to be tied to the house either.
When will the feeding get less.

Joorla, what you're going through sounds very very similar to how it was with my DD. Also having read your other post about reflux, do you think this could be why she is feeding more often? If she's being sick lots in between feeds then she may be "wasting" so much that she needs extra feeds to make up for it IYSWIM?

I agree about offering both sides each time though, I had trouble with my supply and gave up at 10 weeks, but I did find that lots of rest (haha), lots of water and food like cheese and meat helped to increase the supply (may be just me of course). Drinking lots of water doesn't always help by itself, but being dehydrated makes it worse!

If you're getting sore from all the extra feeding, I used Kamillosan (sp?) and it helped enormously!