5 week old baby over feeding?

[2pt4kids]

Am looking for advice on behalf of my sister.
Her baby is 5 weeks old and she is breast feeding.
Baby feeds very often and only goes an hour at a time even through the night still. He gets terrible wind and is unsettled and a bit sicky for a good while after every feed.
He only likes being held, wont be put down and is heavy!
My sister is really struggling with the constant feeding and lack of sleep and constant holding.

She saw her HV today and HV weighed baby. He is a big lad and although he was fairly big at birth, since then he has shot up the centiles and seems to have jumped a line every time he's been weighed!
Sister explained to HV how she is struggling and feeling really down about it. HV has suggested that baby is feeding more than he needs to/over feeding (hence the big weight gain and the stomach ache after feeding!) and has suggested feeding for 15 min each side max at each feed and distracting as much as possible before resorting to feeding each time he cries.
I know that you lot on here know your stuff (and that sometimes HV's dont!) so thought I'd check that it seemed like reasonable advice and is likely to help rather than make things worse!
My sister feels so much better after speaking to the HV and told me that she feels like there is now a light at the end of the tunnel as she has 'something' that she can try to make things a little easier (hopefully!)
What do you think? Any other tips that might make things easier for her?

Would be better if your sis could talk to somone, I think - perhaps she can call one of the bf helplines?

It's not really possible to say what's happening here - if he is gaining a huge amount all the time and being usettled this can mean over-supply (there's a thread on the same thing at the moment), dealt with by feeding one sided and only swapping sides every few hours (putting the baby back on the same side every time he wants to feed in say, four hours, and after that time putting him on the other side every time for four hours and so on).

This is a kinder thing to try first than the HV's suggestion, IMO.

OK, I havent heard of that. I will look up the other thread too, thanks.
My sister tried expressing a couple of weeks ago and just expressed one session and ended up with 2 bottles of milk! so she def has plenty of supply.
I will advise her to call the bf helplines too.

Would you mind linking me to the other thread please? I cant see it. Thank you.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/breast_and_bottle_feeding/714061-6-week-old-screaming-at-breast-is-there-anythi ng-i

He sounds a bit like DS2.

He was sicky and unsettled a lot, and had a fairly impresive weight gain too, though not on the scale of your nephew.

DS2 was a sucky baby and liked to suck on the breast a lot. I also had a fast letdown and plenty of milk and he would get very tetchy after his initial hunger was sated, as he would be drowned in milk when all he really wanted was a comfort suck.

A dummy solved this problem and helped with my oversupply - his comfort sucking was not helping this at all. I know dummies aren't generally recommended this early on for bfed babies in case it hinders supply but it sounds like this is unlikely to happen.

As for not wanting to be put down, swaddling can work wonders.

This transformed my lo, and meant I could put him down, and he'd also sleep in his moses basket.

For the record, he went off his dummy at about 3 months and no longer uses it. I think the sucking relex calms down at this time and he no longer needs to comfort suck as much. My supply has calmed down too.

He's a different baby to how he was at 5 weeks, smily and settled - though still sicky and waking to feed 3 hourly round the clock - any tips on curing that one greatly received!!

Tell your sis to hang on in there - it gets better