Breast Feeding now baby is going 8pm to 8am

[NickeeS]

Hi All,
wondered if I could have a little advise please ?

My DD is 11 weeks old tomorrow and I am exclusively bf. She refuses a bottle of expressed BM from myself and DH, but will take for MIL when she baby sits for 2-3 hours. For tha past 5 days DD has gone through the night 8-8 without waking for a feed. I am a little uncomfortable by the morning so express a little milf from one while DD feeds from the other. My fear is that if she starts waking again during the night I wont have any milk and she will not take a bottle for me. Do you think that I should express during the night to keep my milk coming during the night ? or shoul I just let the milk dry up over night ?

any advice appreciated, thanks )

enjoy it
(DD coming up to 11 weeks so I'm going to show her this thread)
If she starts waking in the night again your supply will catch up - do not get up in the night if she's asleep!!
If you're really wowrried, maybe express before bed? Can you use breast shells in the morning (keeping the milk)

I would just go with what dd wants. Your supply will readjust if she wants a night feed in future.

Example: ds came down with a dreadful cold when he was about 16 weeks which made him throw up his feeds and he lots a pound in weight over the period. When he recovered he started feeding 3 hourly through the night like a newborn and put the weight back on within a week! Wasn't a problem.

Enjoy your sleep!

Juts go with it

Your supply will adjust to not feeding at night, the discomfort will pass soon. Your milk won't "dry up at night" though - if your baby ever needs a feed at night there will be milk.

And your DD starts feeding at night again regularly the supply will increase to meet that as well.

Really don't worry about it, breasts are very clever at all this stuff.

And if your DD starts feeding at night again...

DS2 was like this from about the same age. For the first few nights I was very full in the morning so I got into the habit of giving him one breast, which was all he wanted, and expressing from the other, from which I got a full bottle of milk. Then I froze it all for when I went back to work! He never did start waking again, either. Enjoy the sleep.

Thanks for the great advise, aren't our boobs truely amazing. I suppose I am just a new pannicy mum lol. I am loving a full nights sleep, although I do wake at about 3am and just have to go check she is OK, luckily she is a heavy breather so I just listen at the crack in the door
StealthPolarBear I will give the breast shells a try am off to MC later

TheButterflyEffect Thanks for your advice. She was weighed yesterday and all is on target, plenty of wet and dirty nappies. There is always a big smelly one in the morning which I can smell as soon as I go into her

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Enjoy!

Just be happy! My 3 went through 12 hrs a night at 8, 10 and 12 weeks. Pretty soon you will feel full, but not uncomfortable in the morning as your body adjusts. The fact that my babies slept through didn't have any adverse effect on my day time supply. Also, if you ever do have to do a night feed you will find it is just fine as the milk builds up slowly over the night so it's not as if there won't be any there if for some reason you do have to feed at 3am or something. I had occasional feeds after they were generally sleeping through - e.g. we had a few instances of long car journeys at night and I would then resettle with a feed when we got there, or when they were ill or something - I was always able to feed on the rare occasions in the night when I had to.