should i stop night feeding?

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Help! My ten week old feeds two or three times at night and five times during the day. Recently, it has become more difficult to feed her in the day - not because she is distracted by looking around but because she's just not interested or falls asleep. Do you guys think I should I try to drop the night feeds so she eats more during the day or do you think it is too soon?? HV says she should be able to sleep through by now (she's nearly 11lb). Sorry this is long but advice would be very welcome.

I would just follow her lead TBH. My DSs idn't sleep through until nearly a year, 10 weeks is definatly very early to sleep through for most babies.

Sounds pretty normal to me. You can try to offer more feeds during the day (5 doesn't seem like a lot) and see how it goes, but don't deny requested feeds at night. The baby is only little.

Do you feed from both sides with each feed? Make sure you do, the extra gush from a new breast can wake their enthusiasm for more.

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at ten weeks feed when she wants it. is she too warm? i had to undress DS to feed him when he was little as bfing was all warm and snuggly - ideal to sleep! he is now 19lb and still feeds twice a night - he is hungry! and eats all day! the best way to get stressed out is by listening to all those 'oh your baby should be sleeping through' etc etc

they need the milk to grow and at that age it is not unreasonable that they should want the comfort too! they instinctively want to be near you!

you could try not feeding her at night but she might kick up a right stink .

Poor advice from the HV.

What has weight got to do with sleeping through? This is a developmental thing, and includes social and emotional factors as well. There is no age ever by which a baby should be able to sleep through.

What does the HV expect you to do with a 10 week old? Leave her to cry?

The night time feeding you describe sounds normal.

My dd is also 10 weeks old, she feeds all day (little and often) around once every hour-ish and then around 3 times in the night. I wouldn't dream of trying to drop one of those yet. Is your health visitor mad, has she ever had children of her own?!
It sounds completely normal what you are doing to me. My dd nods off a lot when she feeds in the day, I've tried all sorts to change it but have accepted that she is tired and needs to have a little nap - don't go mad, I wouldn't sit there for an hour with her using me as a dummy but use it as an opportunity to have a rest yourself. I find switching boobs helps too - the little and often approach seems to be working for us.
If by 5ish I feel she hasn't had as much as she would normally I will try and make her have some more, she usually cluster feeds by then anyway and I can be feeding almost solidly till around 7-8 when she konks out.
Hope this helps, I know it gets confusing when you get lots of different advice but the best thing to do is lead by your baby, not some stupid hv - sorry to all hv s out there but I've given up on you!!!