am I being unreasonable to think that when dd has fed 2 hourly all blardy evening she should manage 3 hours at night??

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Grrr. Had two bursts of two hours kip last night because missy guzzle guts is always STARVING!

do you bf in bed? this saves me. (great name btw!!)

the bags under my eyes are green/black with tiredness today. Feeding in bed does help, I just lay there with eyes shut but she has a tendency to drown in milk at first so i have to try to be alert at least at the beginning of the feed.

it's a great look - I'm hopeful pouchy eyes (as my dd calls it) will catch on!!

My sympathies, how old? DS2 is just starting to have a decent stretch at night now.

Don't know if its unreasonable but my DD is just the same most nights, wants feeding all evening then up for 1hr feed/messing about/crying then 1hr rest, then start again. Sympathies...

she is 18 days old. We had a couple of nights where she fed two hourly in the evening and then did 4 hourly stretches at night which was brilliant. Last night was grim though.

Poor you. My DD is almost 4 weeks and so greedy. I can't believe she can feed somuch and for so long. Last night it was 1hr feeding 3hrs sleeping but the night before it was 1 1/2 sleeping 1hr feeding. Last night i tried the gro-bag for first time which seemed to help.

I know its of no help but babies this young will still feed as often as this. if you are bf could you express and get your partner to do a feed so you can get some sleep. It will get easier, promise.

DS fed 4-6 hours each night for weeks with at most a 10 min sleep or play between feeds, and has still, at 17 weeks, never gone more than 4.5hrs (once a night for a week, then back to 2-3 hourly)

IME, 2 hourly at night is normal even now - he feeds a couple of times before and after my dinner, then for around 45 mins or longer after his bath, before he goes to sleep. He eats properly so he's definitely hungry - what else can you do?

Sorry to not be telling you what you want to hear (as I wanted someone to tell me his cluster feeding was not normal all those weeks ago) but things will get better (then worse, then better )

actually it's nice to hear I'm not hte only one. Ds only fed 4 hourly from the beginning so this is a bit of a shock and of course with him I could then sleep all morning but now I'm up with ds at 6ish. She's just broken her own record though and was really hungry just 1 1/2 hours after her last feed! Was worried she might be snacking but she feeds for 20 mins at a time and my breast seems pretty empty by the end ( I know they never are empty but ykwim)