This BF is making me so hungry! Tips to get through the night without snacking please.

[naturelover]

I'm eating three big meals a day and healthy snacks between meals (fruit, dried fruit, natural yoghurt, nuts) but I'm ravenous during the night. Can anyone recommend any healthy but high calorie snacks that will keep me going all night, to eat before bed? At this rate my teeth will rot with all the midnight snacking (it's not like I can be bothered to brush my teeth at 3am).

How about a bowl of cereal before bed? A good jaw-aching museli or bowl of porridge. Something with the complex carbs to keep you going?

Make some low sugar flapjacks with dried fruits, oats, bit of honey, nuts if you fancy. You can store these next to your bed.

Ooooohhh - expensive but dried mango is delicious.

Just snack at night, I did Just get non teeth rotting snacks - a sandwich in a tub? Make sure you sip some water too, you might be thirsty aswell as hungry.

I snacked at night - muesli bars and choccie!

also had porridge as supper

I tended to drink a lot during the night - could you be confusing some hunger with thirst? However, I eat lots too. I regularly have a cup of tea and a couple of slices of peanut butter on toast (are you meant to eat this if bfing? not sure, but I always have) just before bed. I used to keep a packet of McVities choc digestives by my bed as my mum always advocated that any bfing should be done with a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit (love her for that one )

wow, this is making me feel SO much better - I snacked at 4am all the way through pg but, despite eating like a total hog during the day while bfing I am managing to resist the midnight snacks. So far. This may, of course, be that I am just too tired to be hungry at that hour...

i ate 6 meals a day in the early days.(and began to buy Bounties everytime at the petrol station and eat them right away in the car.) My first meal was usually Weetabix at around 4 am.

Give in to it! If you cant snack now when can you? I go for cereal bars, yoghurt, bananas - anything that can be troughed in 60 seconds!
If you have to reach for the choccie - tell yourself it's for the baby's sake, not yours

A glass of ice cold milk and plain digestives went down well in the middle of the night.

I always found a late night snack of cheese and crackers did the job... apparently protein is good for you before bed (well according to the Diet Doctors)

No tips here I'm afraid I came to quite like my 3 am bowl of cornflakes with ice cold full fat milk slopped on them!!
Or weetabix, no sugar in that so not as dental-risky as whatever it is that you are currently scoffing.