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Please tell me this is normal?!

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Caz10 · 23/03/2008 16:36

DD is 14 wks and her feeding has gone all peculiar in the past few days...normally she had a very predictable feeding pattern of 20minsish on each breast, nappy change in the middle, so basically i knew a feed would last an hour. Occasionally wshe would take a "3rd" side. She's had slow weight gain so I like to offer her the 3rd side as a kind of top-up, and she normally takes it. I was feeding her every 3hrs - part of her weight issues i think was that she wasn't "demanding" a feed, so we were lifting her if she was asleep and hadn't woken after 3hrs etc.

Anyway, now I can't get her to feed for longer than about 5-10 mins each side and she gets very grumpy if I try to put her back on. She seems content after these short feeds but then is getting very tired and grizzly, which I was taking to be hunger, but she's having none of it!

I'm PARANOID about her getting enough to eat. She seems to be just snacking and napping all the time and generally out of sorts.

Presumably she won't starve herself but I'm concerned about how little she seems to be taking. Do you think this is just a phase or should i be worried? Thanks!

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Caz10 · 31/03/2008 21:39

Do you need to go back to work? That is really what I am dreading - I can cope with being sleep deprived and dozey when there are no real demands on me, just pottering about with dd! But I hate to think how tired I will be when having to work too. Yuck. Am sticking fingers in my ears and doing "la la la" at the thought of work at the mo actually!

Oh mine is squeaking at the mo....

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Caz10 · 31/03/2008 21:40

Oh sorry Lucicle, crossed posts! Thanks, it is reassuring to hear other people experience the same.

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MamaMaiasaura · 31/03/2008 22:36

well my little when went completely the other way today and has hour long plus feeds. Ah well guess they like to keep us on our toes

taliac · 01/04/2008 11:52

Re sleep deprivation and work - you do adapt, I don't know how but you do.

Plus at around 6 months most babies stop needing (though not necessarily wanting!) milk during the night, so if you want you can start some gentle sleep training to encourage DD to sleep through..

fingerwoman · 01/04/2008 19:42

no, thankfully I can be a sahm for as long as I want.
although I sometimes think that I'd get more rest if I was back at work than at home with these 2 lol

Caz10 · 01/04/2008 20:04

thanks taliac - at the moment she wakes up STARVING, latches on like a super speed dyson, disaster-ville if I aim her at the wrong bit! So i don't mind night feeds too much as it seems clear she really needs them.

but i am soooooooo tired, and when i go back I'll have marking and prep to do in the evenings too - no more 8pm bedtimes for me. so worried about it.

fingerwoman a lot of people have said that to me! so clinging to the possibility it might be true! .

awen that is exactly it, keeping us on our toes!

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StarlightMcKenzie · 01/04/2008 20:14

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Caz10 · 01/04/2008 20:16

getting there!! coming up against a bit of grief from family, have just started (ANOTHER!) thread... but dh supportive thankfully!
the great weigh-in is next week - if she has gained at this one i think i will feel 1000 times better!

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