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Constant breastfeeding

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Melrose86 · 21/12/2021 19:43

My baby is 10 weeks and I feel I am just constantly feeding him still. I really hoped things would have calmed down and we would have more of a feeding routine but today he has been feeding so often it's making me think how much longer can I cope with this? The longest he has gone between feeds today was an hour and a half when we went a walk. The rest of the day its been more like half an hour between feeds. Doesn't help his naps have been short today. My first was formula fed so I would feed him and know it would be about 2 hours til his next feed and this stretched to longer as he got older but this time there's just so little time between feeds some times. Will it be like this for much longer? He is sleeping for about 4 or 5 hours the first part of the night but whenever he's awake during the day he wants fed 😭

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seaborgium · 22/12/2021 12:14

DS was the same at that age. Once he reached 4 months he started spacing daytime feeds out to about once an hour but he needed extra night feeds to compensate.

Melrose86 · 22/12/2021 12:54

Thanks @AnnaBegins these are good phrases to use. Its good to be reassured that this feeding is normal as no one in my family breastfed so they all think its not normal how often he is feeding.

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RKid · 22/12/2021 13:05

Totally normal! Also remember at this age baby starts to find their hands and so if eating hands is/was a feeding cue for you then bare this in mind.

If you have Instagram look up:

olivialactationspecialist (absolute GOD send!!)
feedeatspeak
lmj.infantsupportfeeding

All 3 pages help me so much (currently BF 12 week old), so many handy tips and also just makes you realise that you and baby are normal!!

Why don’t you try combi feeding? Look into that as an option as gives you a little break.

You are doing a great job though Mum keep reminding yourself of this x

RedRobyn2021 · 24/12/2021 09:33

I could have written this myself

I think the thing I found the hardest was that I just didn't understand breastfeeding and because I was formula fed from 6 weeks, neither did my mother. My mother was actually quite supportive but I got all those comments as well and it's so hard because you're already struggling and second guessing yourself.

It's completely normal, the best advice I could give is trust yourself, trust your baby, accept that sometimes you will have days where you don't get round to doing anything other than feeding baby and maybe brushing your hair.

I used to struggle to get from mine to my mums because by the time she had a clean nappy, I had brushed my teeth, got the dog in the car, she could be ready for another feed. Or she'd fall asleep so I'd have to wait for her to wake. And i only wanted to go to my mums for a change of scene because I was so fed up of my house!!

I found there was a slight turning point at exactly 12 weeks, she still seemed to feed constantly but I noticed I could suddenly get to my mums without a mad stress rush.

Everything feels so slow and yet it does go quite fast.

You're doing very well, this is normal. I promise it's normal. A group that really helped me on Facebook was Breastfeeding and Lactation Support U.K. it was just somewhere to go to get support and reassurance and somewhere to moan sometimes as well. I cannot believe I'm writing this, but breastfeeding is so easy for me now, i can't believe it because it was so agonisingly hard in the beginning.

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