Is your baby on your boob all day?

Mine sure is! If she is awake she is wanting to nurse, especially at night. Its actually a little less then a few weeks ago, but they are getting sore. How often is your little one nursing? I do love it though. I love how she is being fed the healthiest thing for her, I love the bond between us and I really love how handy it is! If she cries, the boob stops it right away. Today my 4 year old was watching Dragon Tales and the baby started crying and being fussy. He said "Hurry mama give her the boobie, I want to watch my show and shes too loud!" It was cute! So how is nursing going with you?

Serenity:

Today my 4 year old was watching Dragon Tales and the baby started crying and being fussy. He said "Hurry mama give her the boobie, I want to watch my show and shes too loud!" It was cute! So how is nursing going with you?

 

haha funny, My 9 year old told me the same thing yesterday.. "mom can you feed Mya so I can watch the rest of my show" 

But yes, Mya feeds alot, were not on a scheduel when it comes to feeding, its pretty much on demend all the time durring the day, night time is diffrent because I need my sleep too.. She dosent eat for long periods of time. Maybe 10mins and only on one side, the next time I switch her to the other breast.

She eats sometimes every 2 hours sometimes every 30mins it just all depends throughout the day and then between 8-11pm she is on the boob all the time. She also uses me for a pacifier so DH got her to finaly take her soother. Its not so bad now that she takes it.

When I put her to bed at 11pm she sleeps until usualy 5am, feeds and right back asleep until 8ish.

Last night she went to sleep earlier at 10pm and slept until 5:45am and then again until 8:30am.. she is great at night.. What I wanting was not to feed her more then once at night so if she wakes earlier like say between 2-3am I just give her the soother and usualy that's all she wants is to suck and then the next time she wakes I would feed her.. so she has skipped that 2-3am feeding when she finaly realized she didnt need that 2-3am feeding.  I also use the swaddling blanket and not change her diaper at night at all anymore unless I know she pooped but usualy she dosent poop at all at night. I also put a lot of butt cream before bed "usual the extra strenght stuff" incase she does poop and I dont know about it.

 

So besides Bella no one has a baby on the boob all day? The past few days its been so much less. The first 6 weeks though it was every moment she was awake!

And Bella I am so jealous of all that sleep you get at night! Kathryn actually does pretty well too, but not as long stretches as Mya. My baby sleeps a ton in the day though.Usually 5-6 hours straight and I have to wake her to eat her and she just eats asleep.

I have a booby baby. She won't be held or soothed by anyone else and if she's awake she's generally crying unless she's at the breast and point blank refuses a pacifier - she gags on it and makes herself sick. I can't really afford for her to vomit as my 'milk tanks' aren't really all that big..I can generally only feed up until 10-12 weeks and then I have to supplement becuase my poor babies get SO darn hungry and I can't satisfy them..

I have to say though, Mollie is now heavier at 6 weeks than my 14 month old was at 12 weeks - both were/are exclusively breastfed.. I'm not sure whwat I;m doing differently this time, but breastfeeding definitely is agreeing with Mollie.

Becuase she feeds so much, I wanted to get her to at least get used to taking a bottle, so I could express some milk and get Daddy in ont he deal - as he's feeling really quite hurt by the fact that Mollie won't entertain hima dn it also gives me a break so I can have some time with my 7 year old or 14 month old. Well... I managed to get off 2 ozs (it wasn;t a serious hardcore attempt at expressing) and I added 1ozs of hungry baby formula, which is a bit thicker than standard formula, but wanted to try her as I think she has silent reflux. I was also having thoughts about not breastfeeding her and switching her over to formula completely AND thought it would help her take the pacifier..

Anyway, she took this bottle - which felt like an achievement - but then she had such an upset tummy. I think becuase the 3ozs feed was too large and she's used to smaller amounts but more frequently. I felt INCREDIBLY guilty that I even considered stopping breastfeeding adn then was almost in tears becuase I was so scared in case she didn't or wouldn't go back on the breast.

Lesson learned. I will not give my precious girl formula again and make her poorly (her spit up smelled AWFUL) and I DONT want to stop breastfeeding. Deep down I know it;s best for her. I'll feel guilty if I don't at least get to 12 weeks - which is the minimum both my boys were fed for - she deserves the same good start..

I'm not even fussed she won't take a pacifier now. My hubby just bought me a Moby wrap - it's a god-send! We don't need the pacifier now as she's happy to be strapped to me like a little monkey and I can see to my 14 month old, make a cup of tea, grab lunch, do some light housework and the whole while, she's strapped to me, sleeping snuggly. I need to master how to breastfeed in it though.

But yeah, she LOVES the boob. We also co-sleep, so she latches on and off all night as she wants, so I get LOADS of sleep... I've always co-slept with all of my kids til about 10-12 weeks old, when they start to get themselves into a routine and they feel secure enough to be without me and are much more settled - fingers crossed that she transfers as seemlessly as my two boys as she's much more needy than they ever were.

I'll give her time though, she's so tiny and snuggly and snuffly and she's my last newborn, I don't want to miss a single, solitary thing.. We'll cross whatever bridges we need to cross when we come to it..

Maddisons a booby baby too LOL she loves her milk and seems to feed often my nipples even now get sore when she latches on because she sucks so darn hard anyone would think she is starved lol

Serenity:

Mine sure is! If she is awake she is wanting to nurse, especially at night. Its actually a little less then a few weeks ago, but they are getting sore. How often is your little one nursing? I do love it though. I love how she is being fed the healthiest thing for her, I love the bond between us and I really love how handy it is! If she cries, the boob stops it right away. Today my 4 year old was watching Dragon Tales and the baby started crying and being fussy. He said "Hurry mama give her the boobie, I want to watch my show and shes too loud!" It was cute! So how is nursing going with you?

 

Lucy is fed both breast and bottle, as I am back at work full time, she is 6 weeks old now....

My nipples got really sore about a week after she was born, I bought some shields, used them for a few days, and not had a problem since!  They're great (AvVENT) ....... 

 When I am holding her, yes, she wants the boob!!!!!  I feed her myself, and then top up with formula.  Works for us.    (I failed at BF with both my other 2, so happy to do this, as better than not at all, and I get a lot of satisfaction from feeding her)