Does breastfeeding get easier?

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DS is 8 weeks old and is breastfed. At night things are good, he can go anywhere between 2.5-5.5 hours between feeds and averages two feeds per night. During the day things are rather different and he tends to cluster feed all day every day. He has a little bit but very very often and I’m finding it hard to get anything done during the day. He falls asleep on the breast but if I move him he wakes up so he’s lying on me for a lot of his naps! At night his feeds are really long but he never has that much in one feed during the day. Is there anything I can do to make his feeds last a little longer? I have started expressing some milk as and when I can,so that DH can give him a feed in the evening while I run around and try to sort out the house and make tea. I am going to continue breastfeeding and he’s gaining weight really well but during the day I’m starting to find it a bit hard because I’m basically stuck to the sofa. As he gets older will he go longer between feeds?

He’ll go longer between feeds as he gets older. I know it’s hard now and you seem glued to sofa and under a baby, it passes! It’s normal and it passes. :)

Definitely gets easier. He is so tiny - at that stage with both of mine I would go for the odd walk and coffee but pretty much was glued to the sofa and used it as an opportunity to catch up on Netflix and doze. Try not to worry about the house and have super easy dinners. It's a relatively short period of time and when you're charging around after a toddler you miss it!

I remember around 8 weeks being really tough with DS1 and it’s proving the same with DS2... just felt/feels like feeding is constant and you can’t get anything done or put them down for a fresh cuppa!
It did get easier with DS1, can’t remember exactly when but I know we moved house when he was 3 and a half months and he was definetly having more predictable and less frequent feeds by then (save growth spurts etc!) that’s what's getting me through with DS2 🙂

It does get easier and fingers crossed it won't be much longer before you see some changes. My first son cluster fed lots and would also only sleep on me. It changed a lot by 16 weeks (more like 12 weeks really as he was premature) - at that point he was more alert, less falling asleep feeding, no more cluster feeding and napping in his cot.

I remember 8 weeks feeling hard as it felt like I'd been doing the same thing for so long and I couldn't imagine it ever changing - but it did!

DS2 is now 9 weeks old and generally feeds quicker and less frequently that his brother did. He was full term and over 10lb (now 14lb ish) and I wonder if that's what has made a difference this time.

Keep going - you're doing great

I didn't cook a thing for 4 months, it was just sofa, sling and pram pushing. I think it's just a case of waiting until the baby gets big enough to take milk more effectively, be able to fill up more and take more of an interest in their surroundings.