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10 Week old feeding or fractious - can I do anything?!

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Catla · 25/03/2009 10:41

DD currently seems to be feeding all day and if she's not feeding is fractious. It's making me feel that I can't take her out or visit people as they either don't see her cos she's on the boob or she's creating and I spend all my time trying to sooth her. Can I do anything to stop this cycle? Should she be playing a bit more at this stage? When will she start to hold things and play inbetween feeds? Can I try and put some sort of routing in place in the day or should I just continue to feed pretty much constantly? on the up side, she is sleeping fantastically at night. She is in her room in her cotbed and will go down no problem at 1030ish through until 7am. I am getting up at 2/3am to express to keep my supply up though she is reluctant to take a bottle - sometimes she'll take 4oz in 1 go and then go a few days when she'll refuse completely so can never rely on giving her an expressed bottle feed. Don';t know anyone else in this position. My friend has just had a baby and has gone straight to formula feeding and I think she thinks I'm mad for my chaotic daytimes... any advice/help would be really appreciated. Have found mumsnet a big help just surfing other posts - we had big problems getting started with feeding following a c-section, then mastitis, then oral thrush so now we've got this far I don't really want to give up but would like it to be a little bit more practical with life in general! Thanks for reading...

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eggybrokenoff · 25/03/2009 12:46

Hi, I'm no expert and can't really give advice but just wanted to say my 6 week old has days like this - constantly feeding, not really sleeping and crying a lot. I just let him feed but no idea if I should be doing this. I don't know when they start doing a bit more - mine has one real 'awake' period when he'll lie on a mat and stare around and kick, and he loves his bath but that's about it. What I will say is that I would sell my Granny for one night like yours - i think if you've got that sussed (ours are hell) then you're probably doing everything right. well done on persevering with feeding - I don't think I could have stuck it through all that

MamacitaGordita · 25/03/2009 13:34

Like eggybrokenoff says your nights are great and your days will start to form a wee pattern eventually. Don't try and force a routine yet (IMO), she's not feeding much at night so is making up for it in the day. And what you describe is sooo normal at this age- playing doesn't really feature much til later. It's all about the closeness, comfort and food from you!

You've been through a lot so hats off to you for continuing. It can be tough especially when friends and family are doing things differently, but you're giving your baby such a great start. Things change so fast- in a few months' time you might be back on here with an angel by day and feeding demon by night!

StarlightMcKenzie · 25/03/2009 16:04

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