Is it possible to speed up feeding?

My baby was born with a tongue tie, and I presumed this was why he took so long feeding - up to 1hour 30mins on breast & up to 1 hour on a bottle, often back to back. Cluster feeds are horrendous - 4 to 6 hours non-stop feeding, burping, nappy changing. His tongue tie was cut last Thurs 16th, things haven’t really changed, today he did 90ml in 10mins but other than this random occasion it’s much the same. It takes up so much of the day, what can I do?? FYI he’s 4 weeks old tomorrow and his weight gain is good - 7lb14 at birth, 7lb 11 at 5 days, 8lb at 10days, 8lb8 at 16days.

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Oh my God that must be draining! My sisters boy ate like that for a good while. No tongue tie, but she didn’t make a whole lot of milk. Might I suggest oatmeal every morning (over night oats with peanut butter are great), a hearty meat-filled dinner l, and a WHOOOOOE lot of patience. Your kiddo it still incredibly young, and will be growing fast so I don’t exactly know that it’ll be slowing down anytime soon

Thanks Talitha, glad to of heard of another baby doing the same! Oatmeal for me or the baby? Surely babe is to young, what difference is oatmeal going to make to me?

My baby was like this. I think it’s normal the first 6 weeks to establish your milk supply.

Oatmeal has certain nutrients that help stimulate milk production. Definitely drink lots of water with electrolytes (add lemon with some salt, or coconut water, or just get this electrolyte mix called Liquid IV).

Some babies do just take ages. A friends little one always took an hour to feed so they introduced a bottle - he took an hour to drink that too. Sorry that’s not any help but sometimes it is just down to the individual baby.

Mine use to be like that, he’s now 13 weeks and his feeds are so much shorter 😊

Thank you all, it’s so good to hear these stories, I’ve felt like the only one! Great advice and support! ❤️

@Laura what are the tongue exercises?? I haven’t of them.

@Emma oatmeal like steel cut (skip the prepackaged individual ones) can help with milk supply if you’re running low (ones every morning for a week does wonders

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