Feeding Frustration
Annie has always been a good baby. Lots of naps during the day, and eating every 3 hours. She has always had a fairly big stretch, anywhere from 6-7 hours at night too.
Until now.
For the past week, she has eaten every 2 hours on the dot. her naps are smaller and her night time sleeps are a max of 5-6 hours. I can't seem to go anywhere or get anything done all of a sudden. Not to mention my lack of sleep.
I thought it was a cluster feed thing, until it lasted more than a couple of days, so then i figured she was just growing.
But it kept going.
And last night, I got like NO sleep because she just wanted to eat.
DO i feed her, or am I creating the wrong night time routine?
I am so lost in this new baby world, and so frustrated.
I have been trying to think of what I have been doing differently if anything, and the only things is more exercise and eating better and a bit less. Can this affect her feeds?
What happened to the Annie Bannanie I used to know??!!
3 comments:
your milk will taste funny and be less for the 2 hours after you exercise, you may want to have milk pumped for those times, make sure youre eating and drinking enough, if its less maybe its affecting your milk supply, i would definately feed her, breastfeeding is to be done on demand, she is too young to enforce a 'routine' and refuse feeds, try going back to breastfeeding clinic they will always be a great help, hope this helped
I'm a demand-feeding girl, so if this was me, I'd just keep going and hope that she worked it out. She's always nursing, so she's always hungry.... hmmmm. sounds like my kids. Hang in there!
Sure sounds familiar to me. In fact, Rowan gave me two nights of hourly feedings! Hourly! I was thinking like you, should I feed her or not, and I fed her. I now assume that she was going through a growth spurt. I have also been exercising more so maybe that has something to do with. I have thought about that too. Hmmm.. I think keep filling her up. Remember what helps her sleep and stick with it. Massage, bath, whatever... Do what you gotta do.
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