7wk old falling asleep during bottle feeds

[annaswede]

My 7 week old is is continually falling asleep during feeding, which means each feed is no more than 50ml. I have uped the teats to Variflow (tommee tippe wide neck) from slow flow.

We added up over a few days that she is only getting between 300 & 400ml a day, when everything else is suggesting she should be on 700ml.

We are just about to try to get her onto a Gina Ford time plan, but thus far she eats so little & needs feeding far more often. Sometimes 10-14 times a day ! To top it off, this is making us waste so much breast milk, so now we resort to only making up 90ml bottles, in the knowledge that she wont finish them.

She has been bottle fed from day one on a mixture of mummy milk & Aptamil 20/80% (I cant express much & have flat nipples so have used nipple guards during each breast feed.

normaly 1st & last feeds are from the breast. with a mid way bottle fed expressed milk.

Help.....

I run my own business (design shop) & desperatly need to get at least a few hours back in the day to catch up on emails from suppliers.

can I just add, before all the "GF" issues are raised. I am just using her time plan as a guide, thats really as far as it goes....... all her other "sergent major" methods dont fit with our lifestyle & the way I want to raise my little bundle.

..... forgot to add, she seems to be getting plenty of sleep. about 4-5 hours during the day, & upto this weekend, was generally awake from 5pm right through untill midnight, then would sometimes sleep right through the night.

anyone ?

she is feeding like a baby ought to feed!
i would pay no attention to what guidelines on the tin say she "should" be having, it can never be right for all babies.

follow her lead.