honestly, my dd has a new 'issue' every week, sorry to keep enquiring of you all!
She's 20 weeks and exclusively BF. At the moment she's still not sleeping very well, but she does feed a heck of a lot at night. She's in the bed with us after her first waking (anywhere between 11.30 and 2), because it's much easier simply to feed her lying down than sit up and have her wake up fully then be very hard to settle. As a result she's often latching herself on and off all night (I can wake up with her at say 3.30 and deliberately attach her, then wake up again an hour later and she's still there just comfort sucking but probably getting some milk too).
As a separate but probably linked issue, during the day she feeds for very very short times - sucks vigorously for no more than a few minutes at a time then is very distractable and starts looking away and won't go back on. Muslin over the head doesn't help any more, she's now starting to put her hands into her mouth while feeding. She seems to want feeding every 2-3 hours during the day but only for this very short time, it's very hard to get her to feed any longer. I know distractability is quite common at this age, but might she be less bothered about feeding as she's so full after the night?
She's producing plenty of wet and mucky nappies (by heck yes... ) and has put on a lb in the last 3 weeks so I know she's getting enough food, it's just that is it normal to have so much at night, perhaps even in her sleep, and less during the day? I know at some point we're going to have to get things the other way round as I'm not getting as much good sleep as I'd like (though almost certainly more than if I was getting up to feed her in a different room...!). Any opinions from people who know about the relative benefits of day and night feeding? Thanks!