Cluster feeding - tired!!
So exhausted from cluster feeding. 25 day old baby is on the breast every hour in the day and most of the night continuously. Eventually settles down around 4am to 9am. So tempted to start combi feeding! Please tell me this will get better? How long is this going to last for? Is this defo cluster feeding - the symptoms are: won’t settle for long during day, wakes up crying, hands in mouth and rooting, then fine when he gets breast. Fine after breast and only feeds for 10mins or so. Then the cycle repeats about 50mins to an hour later. Nights are another story where it’s pretty much constant one breast to the other.
I’m also exclusively bf but thinking of starting to pump. Was going to wait six weeks, but don’t think I can carry on like this. Also feels like he hardly sleeps cos always feeding
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BF is definitely hard and constant. The issue is that babies also use the breast for comfort. Mine shows all hunger cues when he is overtired. So if he starts being fussy on the boob and gping from one to another, we know he is tired. In this case we have to bounce him around, he cries hysterically for like 3 or 4 mins and then calms down. It does sometimes also help if someone else picks him up so he does not smell me.
It’s so hard. I worried about this and the thought of not being able to settle my little one without the boob, but I have found that a dummy works wonders for this and it’s not been as hard to settle him without the breast as I thought.
The main thing is happy mum and fed baby!
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I had the exact same situation and i was in tears everyday. I know breastfeeding is best but I started formula feeding my little boy and he is a different baby, the change was almost instant. People have continuously made me feel bad for it but I do not regret it because my son now has a much happier mum. I think my let down was too fast so his feeds were really short but often so I don’t think he was ever content. Formula feeding has been a game changer for me.