Newborn seems to be eating non stop

[lukiebebe]

New mum here so do excuse me I'm so clueless and winging it right now.
3 week old seems to be feeding constantly and sometimes he has a little bit falls asleep and then cries minutes later for more. We try to get him to finish his bottle but sometimes he just closes his lips and rejects it and then wants it 10 mins later.
At this moment in time, his dad is feeding him his bottle (2nd time this hour) and again he's conked out and the bottle is still full. Is this normal? We feel like we're constantly feeding him there seems to be no breaks in between. Any advice to get baby to take the whole bottle and sleep for a little longer?

Also he sleeps a lot during the day and at night he just cries, squirms, grunts and seems uncomfortable.

I know some of you may end up saying "normal newborn behaviour" but just writing this post incase anyone else has some advice.

thank you 🥰

Try offering a dummy instead. Sucking is everything to newborns: comfort, relaxation, pain relief. They suck to fall asleep, to pass wind, to feel OK.

If it's been less than two hours since a bottle offer dummy first instead. Otherwise everything sounds normal, yes.

@BuffySummersReportingforSanity thanks so much for this advice. We tried it a couple of times yesterday in between feeds when he was waking and it helped! He soothed himself back to sleep! Yay. 🙌🏼

@lukiebebe I’m not sure if FF babies go through the same, but at 3 & 6 weeks babies have growth spurts and ‘cluster feed’ as a result x

With breastfed babies you keep them awake by playing with their earlobes until they’ve done a good feed. Perhaps you could do the same.
Feed before the wake window ends too.