hungry all the time???
my baby is 12 days old and is a good baby, she sleeps between feeds and only crys when hungry.
The problem is she is starving all the time, she needs to feed every 1-1 1/2 hours and can take up to 3ozs every feed. Im formula feeding her and i have tried to hold her out on cooled boiled water but she just crys even harder till she gets her milk. The MW advised me [before signing us off to HV] to just give her the milk as she is clearly a very hungry baby, what should i do? ive a toddler so cant let her cry at night for too long as i dont want to wake my other child and going out during the day is all but impossible as she needs so many feeds, what should i do???? x
The problem is she is starving all the time, she needs to feed every 1-1 1/2 hours and can take up to 3ozs every feed. Im formula feeding her and i have tried to hold her out on cooled boiled water but she just crys even harder till she gets her milk. The MW advised me [before signing us off to HV] to just give her the milk as she is clearly a very hungry baby, what should i do? ive a toddler so cant let her cry at night for too long as i dont want to wake my other child and going out during the day is all but impossible as she needs so many feeds, what should i do???? x
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I say just go with it for the next few weeks, easier said than doen with a toddler i know. I fed LO once and got literally 5 mins down the road and she started yelling again. Guess what - she was hungry lol.
It didn't last too long, she'd grown out of it by about 6 weeks. Still had a lot of milk in the day after this, but it did mean she slept really well st night which gave me the incentive to allow her to set the pace in the day.
As long as she looks healthy to you I'd say keep with it and feed on demand
I cant believe James is 11 weeks old, im not sure if you remember me as ive changed my user name from ~Diane~ to ~no2bump~ but i was on ttc with you for a long time, cant believe its been 1 year from your BFP, seems like yesterday and now your wee man is almost 3 months! How are you finding motherhood? x
Jezzy thanks for the advice, she is now going 2 full hours between feeds but im not even sure if that is 2 hours because are you supposed to count from the feed started or ended???? i could from the start but if its from the end she is feeding every 1 1/2 hours???? im sure she is going through a growth spurt today because she has guzzeled down 4ozs bottles every feed and is hungry again in no time...... i dont remember it being this hard with my first baby! LOL