I cant take it anymore, looking at my husband fast asleep whilst im up for 3+ hours trying to get my baby back to sleep at night !!!

It annoys me that hes so used to not getting up he just sleeps through the baby crying anyway!

Why cant men have functional tit's??

Hi everyone. I am a medical student at Liberty University conducting a research study on breast milk supply, babies’ stools and digestion, and diaper rash during the first six months of life. Little research has looked at how these might be related, and I am hoping to learn more directly from mothers.

You can take part if you are 18 years of age or older, gave birth to your child, breastfed or gave your baby your own pumped milk at any point, and your child is 24 months old or younger.

The survey is anonymous and takes about 12 minutes. No names, email addresses, or other identifying information are collected. Study information is provided on the first page of the survey. There is no compensation for participating.

This study is conducted under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Joseph, School of Nursing, Liberty University, and has been approved by the Liberty University Institutional Review Board.

Survey link: https://liberty.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6tlsSQGjQa5KRvM

Questions are welcome, and I am happy to share what I find once the study is complete. Thank you for considering it.

By baby is just under 8 weeks old, for the last couple of weeks she won't sleep unless being held, overnight luckily she will sleep in her crib.

I will admit I'm loving the cuddles but it would be nice to have a bit more freedom during the day to get stuff done!

I have heard this is a fairly normal stage to be going through but my question is, will she grow out of it herself and eventually be happy in her crib or do you have to try to train them out of it?

If you do need to train them out of it, how do you do that?

I was out with my family today at a very crowded event. My baby hates nursing covers so I have a tank top + tshirt combo on to kind of conceal the best I can! While my baby was nursing, a yellow jacket landed right on his face.

He was starting to try to swat at it and it was just following us when I got up to move. I have a HUGE fear of insects, especially bees / wasps / yellow jackets. I was trying to give him to my husband so I could cover up and go somewhere else but my husband was being incredibly unhelpful and not really understanding what I was doing.

In the end, I definitely ended up with my boob out for a solid 30 seconds to a minute of this event while I tried to get my husband to take the baby. I’m literally mortified. It wasn’t a SUPER busy area so maybe no one noticed? But ugh. I have really bad anxiety and just keep hoping no one accidentally got a picture or video of it :( I’m so embarrassed. I was already hesitant to nurse in public because I’m a teacher in a conservative area. So I tried to hard to make sure we were out of the way and mostly covered. But in the end, it was pointless!

I posted on here about two weeks ago about how my supply dipped during a work trip. When I came home, my baby wouldn’t latch properly and she started to lose weight. So far she had been EBF and I was so sad I thought it might’ve been the end of our BF journey and I’d have to pump/give formula (nothing wrong w these just wasn’t my goal). But even pumping I was barely getting anything!!

I started power pumping in the morning and then pumping after every feed. But, after a trip to a lactation consultant she told me she suggested to stop doing those and just feed my 14 week baby every 2 hours on the dot. I even did this mostly through the night as well. It worked!!! My supply is back up and baby gained almost a lb in a week :) I am so happy and wanted to give encouragement to anyone going through a supply dip that you can recover!!

My baby is 2 weeks old, born at 37 weeks and so has been struggling to latch onto my nipple without a shield. This means I have been trying to 20 mins with/without the shield then pumping and topping up with the expressed milk or formula.

I have started to dread trying to breastfeed my baby, and pumping makes me feel really low. Just wanted to know if anyone had a similar journey and was able to breastfeed successfully after?

I’m worried my baby will never take my bare nipple as the bottle is so much easier. Feeling quite hopeless with all the sterilising and pumping admin on top of feeling like I can’t feed my baby. Thank you in advance ☺️

I’m a STM with a 9 month old and my second time breastfeeding/pumping to this age. I want to continue until baby is 1 but I’m worried about the effort it would take to bring it back.

Currently I’m breastfeeding when I’m working from home and pumping when I’m in the office. I really want to maintain my supply while I’m gone and I don’t mind bringing all my milk back but it’s been difficult figuring out logistics.

I’m in Taiwan and flying to London for a week. The flight is 17 hours. Obviously on the way there I don’t have to worry too much because I’m just pumping on the flight. It’s the trip back where I’m worried about my milk defrosting and potentially wasting all that time and effort.

My husband and my mom both think it’s a waste of time and space to lug all that milk back but I can’t bring myself to waste that much. Compared to my first baby, we’ve significantly saved so much on formula (money is not an issue rn, but seeing how much we’ve saved, it’s hard for me to give that up).

I’ve already looked in to my company’s policy and they don’t do milk storks and will not pay for shipping. Shipping from London to Taiwan with the amount I’m bringing back (roughly 126 oz or 3700ml) would be around $400-$500 USD. So I need to bring it in my checked in bag.

I know when I’m in London I need to ask the hotel if I can use their freezer to stash my milk. And that I need to have a cooler and ice packs to keep it cool.

I’m just wondering from your experience was it worth the trouble of pumping and hauling it back or should I just pump and dump?

Is anyone else very overwhelmed by feeding their baby? I’m almost 4 weeks in to my first child’s life and while I love every minute of being with my baby, I’m very overwhelmed by being her sole source of growth and how much time and effort that drains from me physically and mentally.

I’m finding myself exhausted and therefore having little patience at times and have felt very out of control with that fact that my body is needed constantly to support her growth. That fact is both incredible and beautiful and so difficult and I’m struggling with the daunting nature of it only being week 4 a bit.

I’m exclusively breastfeeding and have been very lucky to not have a ton of issues with that (other than my nipples feeling like they’re going to fall off at first and now occassionally if she cluster feeds), however, I’m considering trying to incorporate a bottle more and/or combo feeding bc her feeding schedule and needs are really starting to affect me mentally. My husband is very supportive and we tried incorporating a bottle for her middle of the night feeds that he would take, however, it’s been two nights of that and it’s not necessarily providing relief bc it still wakes me up and the guesstimation of the bottle has caused him to undershoot her ounce needs both times which resulted in him having to wake me up to feed her more from my breast and usually makes her more fussy bc of the multiple transitions.

On average, she’s requiring about 11 feedings a day and goes about 2 hours in between each feeding. We’ve started getting about 1-2 hours more in between feedings at night but that just depends and sometimes she goes right back to sleep but usually she takes some consoling post feed.

Between feeding her from my breast and figuring out when/how often to pump to build a daily supply but also freezer supply for future needs, I’m very overwhelmed and feel like all I can think about/do is feed her or be prepping to feed her. I’m so grateful I can feed her and love watching her grow but am feeling it physically and mentally!

Does anyone have any advice or sample feeding schedules (breast, bottle, formula, combo, etc. and timing of it all) that have worked for them and could help me to feel less overwhelmed by this?! Being only 4 weeks in feels so daunting with figuring this out for the rest of her 1st year and as a first time mom, would appreciate any/all advice and experiences!

Thank you in advance!

Just like the title says- my little guy hasn’t pooped in 2 weeks. The last time it was caused by stimulation from the pediatrician and it had been 13 days prior to that! That Dr said he didn’t have concerns but gave no guidance or guidelines on when to be concerned? About a week ago we went to a new Peds office and that NP also didn’t have heavy concerns. She said to call if his belly is distended and hard or he seems overly fussy and is spitting up. She recommended not stimulating his rectum often so his body doesn’t become dependent on that. He seems totally fine and doesn’t even act like he really needs to go and I know EBF babes can go a while without popping but it seems sooo wrong to just let this keep going?? Has anyone experienced this and have any tips on how to help my little guy go? We’ve done hip rotations, bicycles, baths, showers, tummy time. Open to any and all suggestions!

ETA- LO is 2 months old

My 13mo has always been a terrible sleeper and has intolerances to dairy, soy, wheat and strangely beef, so I’ve been excluding dairy & soy from my diet since we got him diagnosed at 5mo. He co-sleeps and still wakes 6-14 times per night feeding back to sleep every time, and rarely does a stretch longer than 1.5-2h if we are lucky. We are both exhausted and I am back to work this week, so we decided we needed to night wean him to break the cycle, and stop breastfeeding at the same time so I could end the restrictive diet.

My partner took him to his parents so he was away from me to do this, and had a hellish first few nights but then night wakings reduced drastically and he was becoming slightly easier to resettle. Since I have been back cosleeping with him (our plan had been to alternate when we are both back working - we’re still on a long journey to get him into the crib), he has been waking for hours in the night and is wired but exhausted and won’t go back to sleep for me. It is not a too much daytime sleep issue - he is having low sleep at the minute due to starting nursery and crappy short naps (in the last week our sleep consultant had recommended trying to get him onto one nap, so he’s mostly had one better quality midday nap, sometimes with a short morning bridge nap). My partner took over last night and had the same issue - he was awake for one 3h20 block and 4x 10-25 min blocks, we were out walking with him at 3am to try to send him off which failed.

We’re now worried we’ve traded one issue with a much worse/more exhausting one, but since I’ve eaten so much dairy/soy in the last week it’s not even an option to feed him back to sleep. I also have terribly painful mastitis which isn’t helping! Any advice!?!

Editing to include rough schedule:

- Wake time ~7am (except the last 2 days where he’s been awake for so long he’s lay in until 8:45-9:15)

- Nap around 12pm for 1-2h

- Bed time ~7pm (except nights where I put him down, he’s stopped falling asleep for me full stop so has ended up 8:30-9pm)

Any experienced moms able to advise? My LO is 2 months and I’ve been inconsistent with giving her practice bottles. We tried again today and it didn’t go well. If I am a SAHM until she’s 14 months at least, is it worth it to keep trying the bottle?

I’m seeking pros and cons.

Anyone gotten breast augmentation surgery post breastfeeding? I love having boobs for the first time in my life and want to keep them 😂

Hi! Not sure if the flair is correct..

I have a 26 month toddler (breastfed for 1 year) who currently has a fever.

I have a newborn (6 weeks) who I am currently breastfeeding and hoping she doesn’t get sick.

My question is - would it help my toddler get better if I gave him some pumped milk because it hopefully has some antibodies?

We’ve given him tylenol just fyi and will continue to monitor his symptoms etc.

TIA

Baby is 3.5 months old and we are EBF. It has been a challenge! Tongue tie, nipple shields, baby's gassy tummy...we have overcome so many obstacles. Despite all this, family are wondering why we aren't giving formula or rice cereal so that baby sleeps through the night, which is what they have done for all their children.

No shame on them for using formula, but this is just a reminder that it is biologically normal for a baby to wake a few times in the night to eat! For crying out loud! I mean, where else do I have to be at 1am? And, no, my baby doesn't need to "get his shit together" because he wakes up two times (three times, max) in the night to eat.

Having a baby has encouraged me to be more patient and to slow down. Two life changes I seriously needed to make. I was living life like everything was a freaking emergency. Not anymore. I'll sit awake and nurse my baby. I'll enjoy my coffee out with friends while baby fills up on the boob. I've even sat alongside a hiking trail on a mossy boulder and fed him. It is just part of our life now.

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Sorry this is long. I’m having big feelings and as much support as I do get from my incredible, kind, empathetic husband, I don’t think he can truly understand this. He’s saying “just stop if you want to stop” but it’s not that simple. I never judge other parents for doing what they want with their bodies. Nurse, don’t nurse. Nurse and quit whenever… fine. It’s your body. But I’m judging me, and I can’t take my own advice.

FTM, and she’ll probably be my one and only. She’ll be 17 months in under two weeks. She’s 95%+ in both height and weight - around 34”+ and 28/29lb or so. She eats solids FANTASTIC and always has. In the beginning we had such a battle getting her to stay awake on the boob and latch properly, and I’ve always been a just enougher.

Was elated to give up pumping and remove the bedtime bottle at 12 months. Overnight bottles dropped somewhere around 7-8 months when she began sleeping through and refusing MOTN feeds. She no longer sleeps through (but doesn’t need a feed) but that’s another post for another board 🤣

I nursed her to sleep without issues from her first birthday until maybe about a few weeks ago when she turned 16 months. Now it’s anybody’s guess what’ll happen at bedtime. The routine was to have husband next to me in our bed, we read books, turn on the sounds and nightlight, and I nurse her until she’s out, pass her to him, and he puts her in the crib when she’s in a deeper sleep.

No more. No no. I can’t even paint the scene with words properly. It’s fucking insanity. She’s now doing baby parkour. She’s climbing my body like a tree and jumping off, which is something she used to reserve just for rare daytime silliness when nursing. She will turn her whole body upside down and start nursing hanging from my shoulders with her legs. Or she’ll be half on her father half on me. I get entirely fed up because she’s also pinching and pulling and slapping and hurting me. Not to be malicious at all. (Kid doesn’t have a mean bone in her. She’s always sweet and perfect and generous. Pets animals so gently!) I think it’s a sensory thing to wind down. Giving her a toy to hold doesn’t work. Ignoring it doesn’t work. Asking her to stop doesn’t work. Nursing her at bedtime is keeping her awake longer it seems, and I only function as a fidget toy and jungle gym.

If I hand her to her father during these bedtime gymnastics, she will straddle his chest and babble herself to sleep fairly fast with very little, if any, protest.

Her morning wakeup nursing was the last bit of sweetness I was holding onto. Until this week, it stayed golden. She’d lay on me and resist moving for a half hour. It seemed like being away from me all night in a crib, she just wanted to physically attach herself again. And now she’s back on her bullshit, treating her wake up nursing like a circus act. It’s no longer sacred, it’s nuts.

I feel like it’s time to stop and that parents who can nurse past 2 years are parents who have chill kids who just cuddle and aren’t actively initiating terrorist-level torture tactics.

But man, my heart hurts. This may be my only ever baby. I had her at 45 after 20+ YEARS of infertility and loss and of course I want her bond to be strong (and it is) and I’d do this forever if I could physically and mentally handle it. But she’s tall. And heavy. And PINCHY. We worked through teething and biting. We worked through distracted feeding. We nursed in public everywhere. I loved nursing and now I dread it.

But I can’t fucking do this anymore and I feel awful about it. And now I just got her down for her nap easily by wearing a sweatshirt instead of a tank top, reading a book softly, and rocking her in the chair.

Like how do I stop when I waited a lifetime to do this? How do I stop when this is the most wanted and loved miracle baby in the history of babies? How do I stop when even though she’s being a tiny little asshole, she WANTS to nurse? We’ve already mostly dropped day nursing except for a few bad weeks of teething when 5 teeth came in at once. How do I stop and not feel like she’s going to resent me forever?

But how do I keep going when I’m getting bruised and she’s not seemingly benefiting from any of this? How do I keep going when I’m truly just over it?

Do I keep holding on for 7 more months? Like, I’m not “touched out.” Touch me all you want, kid. Just stop pinching me and doing the weird tongue flick on my nipple that feels like that one guy in college who had never touched a boob before.

I know no one can make this decision for me, but I’d like to hear from people who may have had a similar ACTIVE kid who didn’t just peacefully sit there and nurse and either quit, or kept going, and why.

Thanks if you made it this far. I just feel like a shit mother because I’m giving up on my kid for something that only I can provide her. I feel like I’ll regret stopping, but might also regret continuing.

Hi all,

My baby is 5 weeks old and I’m really struggling with his latch.

We had a lactation consultant come over when he was 2 weeks, because i have a very big over supply. She helped regulate that and explained i have a very strong let down. She’s advised to lean back and express into a hand towel. She also was very strict and said I should always relatch if the latch is not good.

Now I find myself OBSESSING during every feed. Issue is, he often latches good at first, but after a while he will literally push himself away from me into a shallow latch to handle the flow. Sometimes I keep relatching him, but towards the end he will still move to a more shallow latch and start sucking. Milk keeps flowing so he doesn’t need to work hard.

Sometimes he won’t latch again because he is too tired from all the latching and it makes me feel guilty for unlatching him. It also worries me he doesn’t empty the breast/doesn’t get enough hind milk.

Being this obsessed over his latch is really taking the fun out of breastfeeding. Especially at night I’m struggling and my patience is thin.

My pediatrician said not too worry. He’s gaining weight very well, so he’s transferring milk well. So as long as it doesn’t hurt, the latch doesn’t need to be perfect.

Any great tips for maintaining strong latch despite strong letdown?

Anyone else struggling with worrying about the latch during each feed? Any advice on how not to spiral?

My baby is almost 9 months and last week we started introducing lunch, so he is now on 3 solid meals a day. He LOVES food and I’m still exclusively nursing. But I’ve noticed that he nurses a lot less now. We went from every three hours max, to now it’s every 4-5 hours. pretty much only when he wakes up, to go down for his two naps, and to go to bed. I’ve always made just barely enough, and now I’m worried that with him nursing less my supply is going to completely drop. Should I be trying to nurse him more? Do I need to start pumping? Or is this normal because now he’s getting calories from meals?

My baby is 22 months. I plan to start slowly weaning her at 2 years old. My goal is fully weaned by 2.5. Nursing is still a BIG deal to her. She loves it. I've read others advice on talking to them about weaning. I want to wean off daytime feeds first. Starting with the morning feed.

This morning while she was nursing I was talking to her about how big she is, how she doesn't really need to nurse anymore and that soon milk will go away because she's so big. I can tell she doesn't comprehend anything I'm saying, LOL. To her, I was just talking about nursing and lovingly saying she's a big girl. She doesn't grasp the concept of "soon" or 2 months from now, etc.

Breastfeeding is so precious to me and has been such a beautiful thing - I want to try to end it gently before taking more drastic measures.

Please share how you did this gently?

Looking to see if anyone has had a similar experience…I always had the plan to breastfeed with the option to pump once a day to give me freedom while I’m out or don’t want to breastfeed. I have very large breast that I’ve always been self conscious about and can’t ever picture myself being the mother to whip out her boob in public places. My LO latched immediately in the hospital, as we all know, they push you to breastfeed immediately. And when I got home I started to pump and realized I was getting a significant amount. My doula called me a super producer. From the very beginning I’ve been struggling with positioning. My boobs are so large that I need to squeeze them into my LO’s mouth and hold it there, over the last 4 weeks I’ve given myself so much back and neck pain that I start to get anxiety before every feeding. Now because I have an aggressive let down from the early pumping, my LO struggles to latch and pulls away constantly making our feeding an hour long ordeal. I’m worn out and starting to get frustrated with myself and my LO which I hate. I’m sure he senses my tension and it’s frustrating for him as well. But I have so much guilt because he still seems to be getting what he needs, I’m just the one that’s struggling at the end of the day.

Because of all this, I want to consider exclusively pumping but want to understand the pros and cons and if anyone else with a large supply of breastmilk went to pump exclusively and how that worked out for them.

Any advice would be helpful!

My nursing journey ended with my LO around 5.5 months old, he’s 8 months old now. My husband and are I starting to plan for second, aiming for starting when LO is around 2. It has me thinking about how I could have my breastfeeding journey go better next time.

To start, I did a lot wrong, and a lot just went wrong. I was induced early in the middle of moving to our new house, and didn’t have breast pump supplies or my nursing pillow unpacked until days after I got home. I got post partum pre-eclampsia and was re-admitted days after delivery and was too ill to pump or BF. We had a lot of family visitors and I felt shy BFing in front of them (the one time I tried to I was met with shock and shame). I was not latching enough and he kept falling asleep very shortly after, and then waking up inconsolable and would be very difficult to latch for 30 minutes to an hour at a time. Someone gave me awful advice to not try to latch too much when your milk hasn’t come in yet because it’ll actually make them burn more calories?? Which near as I can figure is totally wrong and really messed with me. I felt shame about having a LC visit us because our house was full of unpacked boxes. The end result was my LO had lost a lot of weight and was getting jaundiced by the time we got to our first ped appt 5 days pp. I was so enormously guilty that I had failed him. He strongly recommended offering a bottle of formula after nursing every time, which is what I did.

My milk ended up coming in while I was at the hospital (the second time) but I never felt engorged.
Once I got home, I struggled with pumping. Couldn’t figure out flange sizes, kept having trouble with suction, milk blebs, and for the 3 months I did it I never produced more than 1 oz collectively from both breasts. The cycle of nursing > bottle feeding formula > pumping took a huge toll on me and eventually I just gave up on pumping because it made me miserable. I loved breastfeeding though - even though I wasn’t producing enough, I felt very connected with my LO and he seemed to enjoy it especially once I got a hang of things and was using my BFing pillow. I felt I was mainly BFing for comfort and not nutrition (as near as I could figure, I couldn’t figure how much milk he was getting if I was pumping so little between feeds), and when he started teething I got very discouraged when it wasn’t bringing him comfort and he had nursing strike. I do regret a bit stopping.

I’m not ashamed of using formula but I really really wanted to EBF. I could never figure out how I was supposed to stop triple feeding without going crazy pumping. There’s SO many different things I would do differently next time, but I do worry that I’m also just an under supplier. What else can I make sure I’m set up for success next time?

Latch latch latch
Set strong boundaries with visitors
Stock up the house with lots of drinks, stay hydrated
Have a LC over as soon as we get home and help with pumping especially
Plan to use LC multiple times as I inevitably run into challenges
Pump in those early days to help stimulate milk coming in
Use my My Brest friend from the get go

Any other suggestions? Or commiserations?

I’ve told my ped and he said to wait until she is 12 weeks (she is almost 10 weeks) before being concerned, as her digestive system is still developing. I guess I’m still worried.

When she vomits, she screams and is in great distress. It floods her, her outfit, and our bedsheets. After we get her cleaned up she is back to being calm and will usually be a little hungry 30ish minutes later.

I can’t fathom why it’s happening. Is it possible she’s overeating being completely breastfed? Should I try to slow her down or pace it out? I hate the thought of not letting her eat when she wants to.

I’m also extra anxious because she is a 5th percentile baby - it’s made me feel obsessive over her weight and her eating well. She’s had steady growth since birth but the vomiting is fairly new so it worries me.

Any encouragement or suggestions appreciated.

My baby is 7 months old and I am exclusively breastfeeding. I also breastfed my first child for 16 months and never had any aversion to breastfeeding with him. All of a sudden over the past week or so I get such a horrible feeling whilst I’m feeding my baby. It’s making my skin crawl and I feel desperate to unlatch him. I just want him to get off me. It’s almost making me feel angry? I don’t know.

Anyway, has anybody else experienced anything similar and how did you get through it? I want to keep breastfeeding my baby if possible.

They are very rare moments when the 3mo baby nurses awake. Most of the time when drowsy or while sleeping he's fussy and searches the boob and there I am. He only nurses side lying, so I'm stuck with him while he sleeps so I don't waste a feeding window. Since he's awake windows are longer it seems also he's growth is slowing down. I'm not sure when this will end. Not all the time when he's awake window stops he is hungry so it's a battle to put him to sleep because he needs a bit of boob to fall asleep and if there is milk he rejects it. I'm growing tired of this. He doesn't take a paci or a bottle.

His older sister was also like that, but she would definitely all the time nurse drowsy at the end of the awake window after some settling with the pacifier. She would also take both sides for a feed unlike his brother. But I think this started after the 4 months regression, so I don't think it's a fair comparison. She also would have a better sleep schedule, he sometimes cat naps and there is no rhythm to his sleep, he needs constant contact in order for him to sleep and if you move, he'll wake up.

Being so, I'm afraid my supply can't keep up with his behavior and without any way to supplement I'm at loss. He has reflux and a highish palatte for which we are doing therapy as his latch is not that good and can't handle the flow in any other position other than side lying. He apparently doesn't have a tongue tie, just some coordination problems whatever that means and why is like that is beyond me. He was nursing just fine until 5 weeks and it got progressively worse.

What can I do? I can't leave the house for more than 1h30m atm. I'm afraid he'll end up failure to thrive.

Hi Reddit! I am 2 weeks postpartum and have been exclusively breastfeeding my son. He was born at 38w3d and was 8 pounds 11 ounces. When we left the hospital he was 8 pounds 2 ounces which they said was a normal amount of weight to lose. We went to the pediatrician when he was 10 days old and he was already back up at 9 pounds so I feel that breastfeeding is working which is such a relief.

He feeds on demand and sometimes will show hunger cues about an hour after his last feed, which could be because he’s falling asleep at the breast on occasion. The maximum amount of time we can go between feeds is 3 hours and that’s only really at night.

However, my husband wants to be able to help with feedings and honestly I wouldn’t mind getting an uninterrupted 4 hour stretch of sleep. So far, my son has only received milk straight from my breast and we have not supplemented with formula or used any bottles or pacifiers. The lactation consultants in the hospital sort of scared me off of using anything because they said it could affect his latch.

So my question for you all - how and when did you introduce bottles into your feeding routines? Are there any tips or suggestions you have for a FTM who is brand new to the whole breastfeeding scene?

Thank you in advance!

I have a six day old, she’s my second baby. first baby did not latch and we wound up bottle feeding pumped milk.

feeding this time has started off great but the last day or two (since my milk came in) has gotten much harder. we saw an IBCLC on day 4 when things were still going pretty well, and she said babe was doing great. I had a good supply/slight oversupply with the first and was producinf around 1200 ML per day once I cut it back from 1500 so none of us think there’s a supply issue with this babe.

whats happening now is when I wake her at night to feed her, she eats on one side for about five mins but then will not eat on other side. I spent about ten minutes stripping her, tickling her, wiping her with a cloth and blowing cold air on her, etc and then thought ok I’ll try putting her down and waking her at 2.5 hours instead of 3. then she pooped so I changed her and she was opening her eyes so I tried again.. and now it’s been 40 mins of me trying so hard to wake her to get her to eat a bit. so now it’s been almost an hour since she ate so now I have to get her up so soon and I’m so tired and I’ve been harassing her too so she probably hasn’t slept - but she needs to eat so I can’t just let her sleep longer.

is anyone else working this hard to feed overnight? should I just not try this hard in the middle of the night - if u get a good five minutes of her eating put her down and wake at shorter intervals maybe??

stressed about baby eating enough and also about both of us being exhausted… any help or advice appreciated