Help breast/bottle feeding

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My two week old I’ve been breastfeeding and bottle feeding flitting between the two as found breastfeeding difficult. When I breastfeed she feeds for about ten minutes but then wants fed again within twenty minutes afterwards and this goes on for 7 hours or so continuously on the breast. Her nappies weren’t very wet and she screams with hunger. I gave her formula as my nipples were bleeding and cracked and she was content for the first time. I then decided to formula feed but do still want to breastfeed. She’s having a tongue tie corrected today so I want to try again. But I also have a 16 month old so I can’t spend hours on end breastfeeding as he’s demanding too and I don’t have time. Any advice??

It sounds like she is cluster feeding. Very common with newborns. Continually being at the breast is how they stimulate your breast milk supply. Mine used to cluster feed from 4pm to 11pm every night. It was utterly exhausting. Sometimes I just couldn't take it anymore and would give her some formula around 8pm. It will get better though and doesn't last too long. I used to make sure I had lots of snacks and stick myself in front of the telly. It's a lot more difficult to do with another child though.

@nameisnotimportant thanks this is what people are telling me. But today for example I breastfed from 3pm to 7pm for hour long stints and she came off on her own accord but five minutes later was screaming terribly with hunger. I gave her formula and she settled. But what worries me is that she had s completely dry nappy and she almost always does whenever I just breastfeed. I had a very low supply with my son last year and wondering if I just don't produce much milk. With my son i trued everything for four months until they said to try medication at which point I gave up. The dry nappies aren't normal are they??

Usually she wouldn't have a wet nappy straight away. Is she having wet nappies regularly through out the day ?
Formula will settle her quickly because the milk is instantly in her stomach. When they are cluster feeding they are upping your supply. Your milk supply is also a lot slower in the evening compared to the morning.
I'm not sure about your supply generally being low due to how breastfeeding went last time. I do know that I had massive problems feeding my first, low supply etc but my second I had no problems at all, so I think every baby is different.

I found i basically lived on the sofa for 6 weeks cluster feeding and then I guess my supply was perfect and my baby had learnt to feed efficiently so it was a lot less often after that. I had a 3 year age gap so it was probably easier to manage as I could just get a load of toys out and put cbeebies on whilst I was trapped feeding!
Theres no shame in just bottle feeding. But if you do want to try to breastfeed more then you really need to cut back on the bottles and just allow your baby to breastfeed on demand to get your supply up. Even if it's for two hours 10 mins off then another hour! It will get better!