9 week old addicted to nipple

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I've experienced cluster feeding and growth spurts before but this is extreme. Since about 3 days ago DD is on my boob ALL THE TIME. She pulls off, fusses, panics, re-latches over and over. I can get her off for 15 mins or so when DH holds her but she complains and grumbles and eventually cries til she's back on. Nothing else settles her. She doesn't even nurse herself to sleep (except at night). DH is off to a stag do this weekend for 4 days and helpfully got the dates wrong and managed to invite his sister and her DH and teenage DS to come and stay on the sofa in our one bed apt so I am panicking! I am going to have to entertain them sans DH with a tiny person attached to my nipple for the whole time... It's going to be the most awkward weekend of my life.

I digress though. Is this normal? Anybody else have a tiny nipple junkie and did it wear off? It seems to be comfort nursing a lot of the time. Will she end up with eating issues? Does it sound like it could be reflux?

Any help and advice would be much appreciated. My nipples hurt and I need a break.

It's well within normal and NO!! It is nothing to do with food issues or eating disorders. It will pass.

However guests could be asked to come another time. It's not going to be easy unless of course they wait on you hand and foot.

It's just different stages they go through. She's probably becoming more aware of stuff going on hence the fussing. I'd put the family off though or if this is impossible then get dh to explain how it is. They change so quickly though she might have settled by then. Or be doing something else equally as vexing!

Cancel the family. At them if they insist.

It's normal. Either cancel family or give them Internet and a list of take aways , show them the kitchen and tell them to carry on abc to make you a drink when ever they make one for themselves and you'll be in the bedroom feeding!

Dh should cancel the family visit or cancel the stag. Or pay for you and the lo to decamp to a hotel for a couple of nights, to feed in peace!

ehhh how I wish I could cancel it all! Stag is his brother's though so impossible, and SIL is often strapped for cash (hence staying at ours) but has booked flights to come visit (we live in Berlin) so I don't think a cancellation would go down too well. Argh.

So super glad to hear it's normal though. I had eating issues in my earlier years which I desperately don't want my LO to repeat. DH's bro always fed like a maniac as a baby, was a chubby child and ended up obese as a preteen so I was panicking that she'd inherited some overeating gene. Very happy to hear DD is not alone in her constant molestation of my poor nipples, thank you to all