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3 mo feeds at night but not really in the day!! Help!

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Thankyouandgoodnight · 29/10/2008 11:40

DS wakes every 2-3 hours at night for a feed and will, if encouraged, take from both sides (which I do). He wakes about 7am ish but won't feed then and from that moment on until he goes to bed at 6:30pm, he will feed once or twice. How can I reverse this????

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Thankyouandgoodnight · 29/10/2008 11:41

p.s Nothing I can do will force him to feed in the day! He's fully BF.

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purplemonkeydishwasher · 29/10/2008 11:42

i foudn taht around this age my DS got really curious about what was gong on around him. there was too much to see so he didn't want to waste time feeding!
try feeding him as you would at night (if possible) in a quiet darkened room.

Maria2007 · 29/10/2008 11:57

I have the same problem, and am interested in any responses... my boy is 12 weeks old, and for the last 3 weeks or so he is interested less & less in eating during the day. As purple said, he looks around & is interested in socialising, so he probably is bored by just looking at the breast! He interrupts his feeds in order to 'talk' (gurgle, smile, vocalise etc!) At the same time, it's probably growth spurt time, and the every-2-3 hours feeds that you describe can be attributed to that too. My boy also wakes all the time for the last 4 days.

What I've found as a solution (and it's not ideal, perhaps, but it works) is expressing quite a lot & giving him bottles of expressed milk during the day, on top of whatever breastfeeding he does- which is not much. Today I have felt so tired, both from breastfeeding him constantly at night, and also by expressing so much, that I also gave a bottle of formula (which I haven't needed to give so far at all).

I think it's a good idea to go to a darkened room & feed him there... but it's not always practical, & I've found it very restricting & also tiring, since feeding takes so long during the day, because he just stops all the time. So you could also try, if it feels like the right solution for you, a bit of supplementing (EBM or FM) during the day, so that at night you manage to get a break.

Thankyouandgoodnight · 29/10/2008 12:39

I have tried the darkened room thing but to no avail. He's just not hungry. I'm wondering if I'm going to have to take away some night feeds to ensure hunger in hte day . The trouble with that is that you can't remove some and not others as they have no way of knowing which ones they're 'allowed'....

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Maria2007 · 10/11/2008 08:51

Bumping this thread up just to see if anyone has any ideas? Things are continuing this way with us, my boy is 14 weeks & prefers feeding during the night! (Which makes for exhausting sleepless nights for me & DP...) Then during the day he simply can't be bothered & manages 5 mins at most only on one breast every 3-4 hours or so.
Any suggestions from more experienced mums?

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