2 week old won’t sleep after feeding!

[Charlottef94]

We have a 2 week old and have been dealing with BF issues from the beginning. He is rarely contented by a feed and often these take upwards of 40 mins. His weight gain so far has been poor and we are now on a plan of topping him up with formula or expressed BM after every feed where he seems still hungry.

The past nights have been horrendous for sleep and have been something like this:

7-10pm cluster feed
11pm 60ml formula which my DH gives to give me a chance to sleep
2am I wake him for breastfeed
2am - 5/6am - I feed him then he is constantly awake, fussing, asking for more food, I give bottles of expressed top up milk to try and settle him, he doesnt settle
8am - feed again

I’m at my wits end and exhausted. I’d love him to wake up for feeds every hour and a half even, but hes not sleeping at all through the bulk of the night and im spending hours trying to ensure he is fed and settled.

I’m starting to consider if formula is the better journey for us as he only seems satisfied to sleep easily after a bottle.

Has anykne else had a similar experience? I just want a baby who sleeps after i feed him 😩

It’s totally your choice if you want to switch to formula, your baby will be fine with it and if it gives you some sleep - great.
But don’t feel pressured to do anything you don’t want to.
Your baby is trying to help supply during the night. That’s how it works - the more he feeds (often cluster) the more your supply will increase. Yes it’s exhausting but that’s what they do and in the long run it helps to get your supply up and things will settle down after a few weeks.l, maybe even days.
Do you or have you considered cosleeping? If you want to continue breastfeeding I would very much recommend trying to cosleep. My LO would easily drift off to sleep just lying down next to me and feeding. No rocking or transferring needed! Learn to feed side lying, follow all the safety guidelines (look up lullaby trust if you’re not sure) and let baby have access whenever he needs to. I used to co sleep and breastfed and honestly you can snooze through some feeds. I am an incredibly light and rubbish sleeper but cosleep allowed me to get much needed rest!!