Feeding all evening?

[Philomena]

My DS (7 weeks) has had a monster feed this evening. He has fed, on and off, since 4ish until 9ish on the breast and then he gulped down just over 150ml of EBM.

Is this right? Could my breasts be empty?! I'm pretty sure he was swallowing, although he did keep falling asleep on me. I'd say he was feeding for 15 minutes out of every hour. He had a good half-an-hour on the breast at 4ish.

Am I giving him enough?

My dd always cluster-fed that way, between about 6pb and 11pm. It's quite normal, as far as I can make out.

In my experience they have phases of doing that which is to try to increase stimulation to up their milk supply as they're having a growth spurt. Think the best thing is just to go with it and know that it will improve . I can still remember how soul destroying it is as it's at the time of day when you're at your most tired. It will get better.

completely normal IME - very exhausting though and difficult trying to eat your dinner with a baby sucking away on you. I seem to remember dropping quite a bit of pizza on DS2 when he was doing this

Hang in there Philomena - this phase doesn't last long

Tommy - I used to drape a dishtowel over the babies heads while i stuffed my face . When they were having one of these feedathons I was always STARVING. And exhausted

the kellymom site has lots of good info about breast compression to speed up the flow of milk

Philomena - its a really exhausting time for you. Make sure your partner looks after you. Sleep when you can , eat well and get DP/DH to change nappies, make meals ect. Find a good book or magazine to read while feeding or chill out with music/tv. If you sit there worrying about how much DS is feeding and getting frustrated about "not getting anything done ", you will feel worse.

Sorry but it s just a phase - you need to go with it I'm afraid

I agree that this sounds normal but don't worry it won't last forever.
Your breasts fill up pretty quickly after a feed too so don't worry that he isn't getting enough.
Maybe he's just filling up for a 12 hour sleep.

Quite normal

Albeit, exhausting....

And the more you feed the more your supply will build up.

Phew...he's asleep at last.

Now I'm off to bed...will be back at 4am no doubt when he wakes up for the next marathon feed between 4am and 6.30am!

He is big - 91st percentile.

I remember being tied to the couch every evening between 6pm and 1am feeding DD.

And she fed every 1 1/2 during the day. It does get easier, I promise you.

Oh that brings it all back! I remember this too, but it is better than them crying, and hopefully as someone else has already said, he may sleep through sooner, as he already seems to understand a little of what nightime is all about, the 4am feed you need to start stretching on a bit, with the twins dh and I had one each side of the bed and just tried to sleep through the fussing 15mins longer each time until we managed to get them going through until about 6.30/7am.

I actually look back with fond memories feeding all evening - how sad is that? I just found it very comforting that they needed me that much.