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Nipple confusion and sleeping

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na135 · 02/06/2022 06:47

Hi. I have a 12 day year old newborn. She dropped her birth weight and I was advised by mw to top her up with formula. She has now developed serious nipple confusion and screams blue murder unless I feed her through a nipple shield. I am still having to top up with formula.

Any advice on how to stop the nipple confusion would be great. I’m also wanting advice on continuing with the supplement feeding, has anyone done with that?

She would also sleep longer than 3hrs if I didn’t wake her up to feed, should I continue to wake her?

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MintyMoocow · 02/06/2022 06:53

Never wake a sleeping baby, my SIL raised 5 with that as her guiding principle. Worked for and then me.

Coffeeandcrocs · 02/06/2022 06:55

MintyMoocow · 02/06/2022 06:53

Never wake a sleeping baby, my SIL raised 5 with that as her guiding principle. Worked for and then me.

Baby needs to be woken for feeds until they're back to birth weight. After that it's fine to leave them to sleep

Sbena · 02/06/2022 07:38

Yes, do continue to wake her until her weight is on track. They tend to be sleepy for a couple of weeks after birth - soon you may find she is already awake for her next feed!

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MoodyTwo · 02/06/2022 08:38

Keep waking to feed until they are back at birth weight, after that it's fine to leave them asleep so long as they are in your room.
For the nipple confusion I got my DS off nipple shields by feeding with nipple shields first so they were happy then take it off and feed with just breast, i think it took about 4 weeks to come off them fully

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na135 · 02/06/2022 09:42

Moodytwo did you take it off mid feed? Or at the starts she literally screams the house down if I try and feed her without. The whole feeding cycle is taking up to an hour and then I’m getting 2hrs sleep ready for the next feed.
I m exhausted.

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MoodyTwo · 02/06/2022 11:33

So I fed fully on the boob with it on ... then burped then latched him back on without it, sometimes worked some times didn't ...
i made sure he was happy and fed , then after a week or so I just tried to do it from the start every other feed and one time he just latched ... from then on I started every feed without it and if he didn't latch then I would use the nipple shield ... it did take a good few weeks or testing and trying , but as soon as he was upset I used the shields

MoodyTwo · 02/06/2022 11:34

If you co sleep maybe feed with the shield on, then after the feed has finished take it off in the hopes she will latch on while she's sleeping?

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