Hi I’m a ftm to a 2.5 week old. He’s had the odd few days of cluster feeding but today he wanted to feed for almost 5 hours straight to the point where it was becoming really painful and sore for me and he was becoming really frustrated because for the past couple hours I don’t think he was able to get much milk from me. I’m pretty sure he sucked me dry and when I tried to express with my hand hardly anything was coming out which I’m assuming is because he was on them for such a long time?
Ive just had to give him 120ml of formula to satisfy him and also to give me a break. Was I wrong to do this? Could I have a low supply which is why he was getting so frustrated towards the end of the breastfeed? Will I have made my supply worse by now having given him that bit of formula?
I go no more than 3 hours between feeds (rarwkt 3.5) and that’s only at night time. Am I leaving it to long??
Thanks in advance!