5 week-old continuiusly feeding at night
Hi all
My daughter is nearly 5 weeks old and is exclusively breastfed.
She's been pretty good but recently is ravenous at night. She usually gives me around 2 hrs between each feed and will feed from anywhere between 20mins to an hour. During the day she'll feed and be satisfied and fall asleep for about 2 hours sometimes more. At night she'll feed for up to 2 hours (including nappy change and countless times falling asleep) then I'll burp her on my shoulder and she's searching for food again and won't settle. She's absolutely shattered but won't give in and both her and I are getting increasingly frustrated with each other which isn't great!
Any help or advise is hugely appreciated!!
Xx
(also in baby)
My daughter is nearly 5 weeks old and is exclusively breastfed.
She's been pretty good but recently is ravenous at night. She usually gives me around 2 hrs between each feed and will feed from anywhere between 20mins to an hour. During the day she'll feed and be satisfied and fall asleep for about 2 hours sometimes more. At night she'll feed for up to 2 hours (including nappy change and countless times falling asleep) then I'll burp her on my shoulder and she's searching for food again and won't settle. She's absolutely shattered but won't give in and both her and I are getting increasingly frustrated with each other which isn't great!
Any help or advise is hugely appreciated!!
Xx
(also in baby)
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My dd was exactly the same. She was a big baby who fed a lot and seemed to have groth spurts every 3 weeks for the first 3 months. Like you describe she was constantly feeding at some points.
Our solution was to express as big a bottle as poss every mornig so that dh could give a big feed at one of the night wakings. This would keep her conked for a bit longer and give me the rest I needed to keep tears etc at bay.
You;ve both given your lo's a great start and while it's very tough at times like these, it settles down very soon and becomes a lot more manageable. My dd is 9 months now and down to one bf a day. Honestly, the time has flown!!
xxx
When expressing can you do a little at each feed and put in the same container or does it need to be a different sterilised one each time? Ive absolutely no clue about expressing!
Many thanks again
Xx
My baby was two weeks early and he was playing catch up too. It does make sense.
Thanks again for your responses. Just wanted to give an update, she seems to have really calmed down this week, has even given me a 3 hour stretch between feeds at night (2 nights on the trot!) I discussed this with my health visitor on Monday and she said it was probably a bit of a growth spurt (is now 8lb 13oz!) and she also has a mild form of reflux. So have taken that on board and she now sleeps at an angle at night and seems much better, it's also easier to cope with knowing she's not just being difficult.
Xx