One day old feeding all night

[newmumagainn]

I had a beautiful little boy yesterday afternoon. He's 4lb 8, so tiny, and we were let home from hospital today. He has fed quite regularly throughout the day, every 2-3 hours, but now it is bed time he wants to feed continuously. Whenever he finishes and I put him in his cot he starts sucking at his hands and cries for more, so I put him back at the breast

I remember nights of cluster feeding with ds1, but not until he was a bit older than this!

I'm so tired and achey and headachey still from yesterday- is this normal? Any tips?

Totally normal.

How lovely, a squishy newborn. Enjoy. Hope you're OK

Oh lovely. I can see, given the current situation, why you are out of hospital so soon. But WOW, you are out of hospital so quickly!

4lb 8 would usually be small enough to go to a transitional ward for support until he’s achieved some weight gain wouldn’t it? I guess at the moment the safest place for you both to be is at home.

In my experience it’s all very normal.
(For my second baby at least, the first one came out so doped up on the morphine he didn’t do a lot for a few days).

Has your milk come in yet? Probably not, as you know your very clever day old baby is helping that happen.
Also, are you making sure to wind him?

Do you have the midwife coming over tomorrow? Can you last till then or do you need support sooner?
Did the hospital give you a number for the postnatal ward? Give them a call? They should be giving you support even though your discharged since it’s so recent? Shouldn’t they?

Congratulations on the birth of your son

Congratulations!

Totally normal, he will be doing all of this to a) get colostrum and b) announce his arrival to your boobs so that your milk comes in. It is tough, it does get better but may take 2-3 weeks to do so.

Can your DH take him for an hour or so and cuddle/rock him so you can get a power nap? Make sure you put nipple cream to avoid soreness as much as you can. Eat and drink plenty of whatever you fancy, you need to keep hydrated and your strength up.

This time of night it feels tough, I got through it by watching easy or funny TV - did all of Brooklyn 99 with DC3. It helped keep me awake and pass the time.

He's little but passed all his tests, is maintaining his temperature, blood sugar levels etc, so they said we could leave. Yep, we have someone coming out to us tomorrow.

Thanks for the replies. We were in hospital for two days before baby was born with a failed induction, so I haven't seen my two year old DS much this week at all. Already feeling the new mum guilt, I know how tired I'm going to be in the morning when he wants me to make his breakfast and play with him.

I'll give snoring DH another hour and then will wake him and see if the little one will nap on him for an hour so I can sleep- good idea, thank you

My sister had a baby yesterday too - congratulations.

It does sound like things may settle when your milk comes in.

Not sure if your thoughts on dummies - would it maybe help you if he had one for some comfort sucking?

I always vowed no child of mine would have one (before kids). That lasted a week and 2 sore nipples before I changed my mind. 😂

Completely normal. He is building your supply. Is he weeing enough?

Hi, my DS is now 2 weeks old. When he was born, the 1st night in hospital was a dream, feeding every 2-3hrs. The next 3 nights at home I honestly thought to myself "i'll never get through this" he cluster fed for 12hrs through the night for 3 nights solid. I was exhausted but as the other have said your little one is doing it to help bring your milk in. As soon as my milk came in he settled and has gone back to regular feeds since. It's hard work but you will get through it xx

I’d hold off the dummy for a couple of weeks at least, as I noticed with mine they meant they fed less & i’d worry about that with a newborn.
Can you cosleep, so you get more sleep? There are safe guidelines - in your shoes i’d ask dh to sleep elsewhere & have squish in with you

Oh and congratulations!

www.lullabytrust.org.uk/safer-sleep-advice/co-sleeping/