Breastfeeding routine

[Choice4567]

I'm starting to struggle with breastfeeding/ lack of routine/sleep.

My DD is 2 1/2 months. Breastfeeding has been going really well, but I'm starting to feel the lack of sleep and the fact that it's only me that can do night times and any feeding. I really want to make it to 6 months, but I'm starting to struggle. If I switch to bottle feeding then DP can do some feeds and we can get a routine.

At the moment she doesn't really sleep in the day and still wakes every 2 hours or so in the night. I'm so confused as to how to get a routine!

Any encouragement on how to carry on BF?

Keep going op! I'm only a little further down the line (18 weeks) but it gets better all the time. Co-sleeping and feeding lying down is pretty essential for ebf in my opinion. I've managed to get lots of sleep that way. For me it really helped to put a rolled up blanket behind the baby when he was tiny to keep him on his side when feeding. When he was done I took it away and gently rolled him on to his back to sleep. Didn't need to hold his head.

I know how you feel. Imagine my wanted to eat sometimes every 40 minutes. At the night he woke up like 7 times so i was walking zombie believe me. And even after i stopped breastfeeding after 6 months he still woke up up to 7 times. He started to sleep through when about 15 months. I am not very helpful right:-) so for me there was not routine at all

you are doing well! my daughter is the same age and is exactly the same. Wakes approx every two hours for a feed. Once or twice she has gone three hours. Thats pretty normal. I know that because she is my second! So I was expecting this.
My husband and I sometimes do it so that I go to bed first and he has her downstairs awake... she can go longer between feeding if he is holding her and theres noise etc.. she seems to sleep deeper.
So ive been able to have 3 hour stretches of sleep that way and he just brings her up to me when she starts making noises for a feed.

Hooray for a good night! I felt really weird the first time I got a decent sleep. You know it’s possible now: it can and will happen again.