Hi everyone, looking for a bit of advice about breastfeeding when you have a family and other children. DC3 is ebf and 18 days old. We've had a bit of a rocky start with scanned nipples, some slow weight gain due to a posterior tongue tie (snipped at 10 days old) and with him being born weighing 6lb 11oz on the 3rd centile hcp are taking notice and monitoring us.
He has two 60ml ebm paced fed bottles a day to try and boost his weight gain (mws insistent of this after the slow weight gain) this approach will be reevaluated once he's weighed this week.
Anyway, dc1 was bf for 5days and dc2 was ebf for 3weeks then mix fed until 3 months. This time round whilst I'm enjoying the breastfeeding I am finding it incredibly demanding with the cluster feeding and mystery of not knowing when he's going to be satisfied after a feed and when he'll scream blue murder wherever we are. He also freaks out at night when put down, so we're currently co sleeping- something that terrifies me as he's so small!
The mornings with school runs are quite demanding and whilst my children are trying to be helpful (they're 10 & 8) we do still have bickers between themselves and general child related arguments, something I struggle with as I'm trying to fill the baby up before we jump in the car.
Will things get easier soon? Every day I fantasise about going over to mix feeding like I did with DC2 but the guilt cripples me and I know I need to really establish my milk supply before making such a big decision.
Hand holds most appreciated!