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The Breast Feeding Support Thread
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Just feel I need to post today as I'm having a very low day. I'm feeling exhausted, have had a virus the past few days and night feeds are not getting any easier. My son is just under 10 weeks old and I know it's normal for him to still be feeding at night but I'm wrecked. We've been trying him with one bottle a day since 6 weeks. At first he kind of played with it, then one night he downed 50ml. I thought 'yes, we've cracked it!' That was two weeks ago and since then if my husband goes near him with the bottle he gets hysterical and the only thing that calms him is the boobie of course. I don't understand why he took it then suddenly went anti-bottle totally!
I don't need to be away from him any time in the next couple of months but it would be nice to know that I could go out for a few hours without worrying about rushing home to feed him. It's just all taking it's toll at the moment probably because I've been feeling unwell. The other problem is getting him to sleep in his cot as I don't sleep well when he's in the bed and he ends up beside me by 3am at the latest every night as he won't settle otherwise. It's better having him in beside me than not sleeping at all, but I don't know how much longer I can take it.
Rant over, hoping I feel more positive tomorrow as I do love Breastfeeding but the way I feel right now I want to quit!
As posted before, sleep when baby sleeps.. i used to love the morning feed after breakfast when the older girls were gone to school. When my 4th cam i used to read to the then 2 year old and feed the baby, the 2 year old would go back to sleep and so would i.. it was a lifeline, cos when the other 2 came in from school it was all go.
At night-time (2, 3 ,5 am) feeds i just brought the babies into to bed and i lay flat on my side and fed lying down so i could doze.. when baby was done i would put him back in the moses basket, I always had a spare small sheet that i put under me, this i put under his head just as i was putting him into the basket.. it was warm so no cold shock when i put him down and it smelled of me, i always found it a good idea to have something warm under their heads putting them down.
Its not easy when they're so little, but it doesnt last forever and eventually they do sleep a little longer every night.. and the first night the sleep through you'll be awake wondering if they're okay
Best of luck with the feeding
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How Strange wrote: »Bagheera is this your first? If so sleep when the baby sleeps. It might sound like a cliche as you hear it so often but it's true and it really helps. Both of you get back into bed after breakfast, snuggle and sleep.
Do you not like co sleeping? I resisted it first time around but second time I just went with it as it was the best way to get some sleep. I used to half lie down/half recline and put a pillow under the elbow where her head was. I always left a night light on so I could see where she was but it found cosleeping great. She decided at 12 weeks she didn't want to sleep on me and she preferred the Moses basket so we started using that. At the beginning if put in something with my smell on it and I slept on the sheet for a couple of nights so it smelled familiar to her.
No I have a three year old as well so that's one of the reasons I'm so tired. He's really playing up at the moment and I'm finding him very tough going.
I would be happy to co sleep if it was just me and the little one in the bed, but with my husband there too I just don't have enough room to get comfortable. I tried to get my husband to sleep in the spare room but he won't and that's peeing me off too. He says he doesn't find the other bed comfortable but I know I'd get more sleep if he'd just go in there!
I feel like crying at the moment as I have just fed him to sleep twice only for him to wake up again. My husband is up there at the moment trying to settle him now. I know it's just a bad couple of days and in a few days time I'll hopefully be back to enjoying feeding, but right now I really want to run away from it all
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As posted before, sleep when baby sleeps.. i used to love the morning feed after breakfast when the older girls were gone to school. When my 4th cam i used to read to the then 2 year old and feed the baby, the 2 year old would go back to sleep and so would i.. it was a lifeline, cos when the other 2 came in from school it was all go.
At night-time (2, 3 ,5 am) feeds i just brought the babies into to bed and i lay flat on my side and fed lying down so i could doze.. when baby was done i would put him back in the moses basket, I always had a spare small sheet that i put under me, this i put under his head just as i was putting him into the basket.. it was warm so no cold shock when i put him down and it smelled of me, i always found it a good idea to have something warm under their heads putting them down.
Its not easy when they're so little, but it doesnt last forever and eventually they do sleep a little longer every night.. and the first night the sleep through you'll be awake wondering if they're okay
Best of luck with the feeding
I might try that with the sheet; he is already too long for his Moses basket but I used to lie on the mattress when feeding him when he was in it to keep it warm.
Just after my last post I remembered back to when my first was that age. I keep looking through rose tinted glasses but the reality is he probably was the same (although he was definitely much happier to sleep in his cot). I survived that so I'll survive this. It's just good to get it off my chest here, thanks
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Need to talk to my lc tomorrow too... Supposed to be pumping to try up my supply too... Just aagh! 15 months I fed C no thrush, no blocked ducts no problems with supply (except in my head!). This time my supply isn't great, blocked duct constant pain and she's 10 days old. I think it's because she's so inefficient from the tongue tie.
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Hi All,
I am 39 weeks pregnant on my second child. I breastfed my first son for 7 months (4 1/2 years ago), but I must admit, I did not enjoy it it was incredibly hard.
I want to breastfeed again, but this time I want to enjoy it!
The reason why it was so hard with my son is because he was a "snacker", he would only feed for 5-10 min 15-20 times a day. He would wake up 6 to 8 times a night. I know this is pretty normal for the first few weeks of a baby's life, but at 7 months we were still on the exact same pattern! I don't know if I went wrong somewhere or if it's just the way he was. I did encourage him to feed for longer but he would either fall asleep or push away when he was strong enough to do so!
My baby was the perfect/happiest baby otherwise, thriving, no colic, no reflux, never cried when teething! On the other hand, I was broken, was very close to PND I reckon, purely due to the lack of sleep. My body could not go into proper rest mode as my little boy would wake up every hour to hour and a half. After 5 months I could barely sleep between the feeds, my body constantly anticipating the next one. I completely finished breastfeeding at 7 months (after a 3 week battle for him to take a bottle!). He slept through the night a couple of weeks later, but it took me a lot longer to regain a proper sleep pattern (with acupuncture sessions to help my body relax and restore sleep
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The exhaustion was unreal, and I feel I did not enjoy my baby the way I should have. So this time I want to enjoy it and enjoy this little baby!
Ideally, I want to try to introduce a bottle a day of EBM early enough to get the baby used to the bottle, so that my husband can take over if I get overly tired or want to leave the baby with daddy and take my son oldest son somewhere .
A few questions :
- How can I "prepare" my nipples for breastfeeding? What cream would you recommend? I had very sore, cracked, bleeding nipples after a few days of breast feeding. But since we had to top up my son with formula for a week when he was a week old (due to jaundice and big weightloss after birth), that gave my nipples a break and when we went back on breastfeeding they were healed.
- How soon can I express and give a bottle? I know it is recommended to wait 6 weeks to establish a supply, but just a couple of oz a day? What about nipple confusion, does it really exist? As I mentioned above, we had to supplement my son with bottles for a week and this did not affect my supply or his suction, was I just lucky?
- Does anyone of you take supplements to boost their supply? I have heard of fennel tea, any opinion on it? On my son I did wonder if my supply was good enough for him, but since he was gaining weight at a good rate, the phn had no concerns.
- Any good website or FB group with practical info you would recommend?
Many thanks for your help!!0 -
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