My DD used to sleep long stetches like that when she was around that age. I thought 'Yay, I've got a good sleeper!' Haha - now that didn't last!
Some babies start sleeping through at a really young age, some do when they're little and stop, some never sleep that long a stretch... All perfectly normal.
I'm sure your DD will have (and probably has had by now) a big big feed when she wakes .
Ladylove, I feel my let down this time, but don't remember it with DD. I have heard that it can get more intense with subsequent babies. it can happen pretty quickly cos your breasts are already starting to get ready when you hear baby cry or when you start to get in position.
Nice work on the sleep, how did your breasts feel going that long wthout a feed? Hope you got a good sleep too. DS had one 6 hour stint so far, and i was pretty stoked with that! I don't think DD slept that long til she was way over a year old.
Cheshire, I'm glad you had such good support while you were sick.
Hot1, well done for demoing! I think we'd be very bad demoees because I pay no attention any more to attachment. DD2 has gotten so big and capable she does it all herself.
Ladylove - I felt let down with DD1 but not much. This time around it's intense! It seems to take just a little longer and DD2 starts to get impatient and then whoosh! Out it comes. This time I stopped leaking much faster too. It's incredible that our bbs change (internally) from one baby to the next.
It is incredible. I am constantly amazed at how the female body is like a Transformer - in pregnancy and birth everything moves and changes to create and nourish another human being. I sometimes feel like a whole different person to who I was before - emotionally of course but also physically my body is now different and doing different things...
Anyhoo, I ended up getting Honor up at about 4:45 and she actually fed in her sleep! A first for us. But she did not have much at all so it was not really a full feed. I put her back to bed and she woke up naturally around 5:30 anyway. She has been having long stretches of night sleep since about two week anyway so I am very lucky - she seems to have worked out night and day really early as during the day she does not like sleeping in the cot but at night she does. During the day she wakes up alert a few minutes after a feed and at night she stays asleep after a feed. During the day she feed every 2-3 hours and at night it is more like 4-6 hours except last night which was almost 10 hours!!!
Ladylove, my DS slept through from 6 weeks to 3 1/2 months then brought back a 4am feed (there is a major growth spurt there) until 6 months. So she may sleep through, or it might be a one off. Don't worry about it, if she's feeding that often during the day, she's getting her food in! If you're uncomfortable, express the milk to get it off. As you said, our bodies are transformers, your boobs will adapt to her feeding timetable
Re letdown, I can't think that it's changed much for me from DS to DD. I feel it and it's pretty soon after starting feeding. My Mum never felt one - didn't know what I was talking about. In my friends, it ranges from non-existent, to funny tingly through to excruciating. I think it's all really varied.
I don't remember feeling let down at all with DD1 but I can definitely tell with DD2... it is almost painful. Things are going well for us, DD1 doesn't look any closer to weaning, I think she would feed more often than DD2 does if I didn't set the 2 feeds a day limit. DD2 seems to go about 3hrs during the day (don't really keep track) and usually has a 6hr stretch overnight, after my experience with DD1, I couldn't be happier haha.
My let down is a bit like a burning ache in my boobs - it's not really any different to what I remember from DD though. Mind you, with the long gap some things have felt like the first time again. I didn't have as many problems with engorgement this time, and have settled quite quickly. MonkeyBoy is still feeding 2-3 times overnight, he had been having long stretches where he cut down to once a night maybe twice but it's back up at 2-4 at the moment. Darn growth spurts!
I am loving being able to settle him really easily by just offering a feed - poor boy got woken up last night by cats fighting through his bedroom window right next to his cot because my stupid neighbour won't keep his pesky darn cat inside at night....
This is my first BF journey and so far have been really enjoying it. I know I am lucky to so far not have had any issues and little man has been growing so well. He was 3.35kg and 52cm born 5.1kg and 59cm at 6 weeks and 5.8kg and 61.5cm at 8 weeks! Not sure now but I'm sure he is still growing like a weed!
He is having his night feed at 6pm bed by 7pm and then wakes around 2-3am for a feed and then sleeps till 630-7am so I am so pleased with how he is going.
I am expressing once a day after our morning feed and eventually he will be BF and EBM feed when I return to work in June. I am hoping to atleast make it to 12 months doing this so I'm hoping I can persist when I do return to work.
I'm so glad I found this chat as I'm sure thought out our breastfeeding journey all you ladies experiences will come in handy with advice!
My DS is 6 months and still feeding once or twice overnight as well. I just think he's a hungry little man because at first I put it down to a growth spurt but the feeds continued so I'll just call it "growth"
Since yesterday though he's been doing the strangest thing...........slurping at the boob. His attachment has always been great and this certainly doesn't hurt. It just sounds awful!
Am I the only person who really can't be bothered with discreet feeding? I hear it so often 'oh as long as it is done discretely' and I just really don't get it. The baby is feeding, what does it matter how much skin you see around their head... I mean really? I honestly got so sick of trying to cater my wardrobe to feed with DD1 that I just don't anymore. I wear whatever I want and just pull it right on down to chuck bub on, I just don't get the discreet thing at all... seems like such an unneccesary fuss, trying to co-ordinate around all that fabric haha.
Any other lazy public feeders? I am openly admitting, I am rarely discreet and if I am, it is purely coincidental as my only priority is feeding my little miss.
I normally just wear a t-shirt and pull it up to feed, I have a couple of bf-ing tops but not many, and a few dresses that I can just push the cup aside and feed. Had to laugh while I was pregnant, a friend of mine was pregnant at the same time and wanted to buy one of those covers, she's now using it and gets more looks while feeding than I do with my boob out. Or maybe I do get them and just don't notice because I don't really give a rat's?
Mind you, come winter I might layer so I've got a singlet under the t-shirt, but that's more so my belly doesn't get cold!
I'm not a discreet feeder at all! I yank my boob out of top and poke it in child's direction. I usually feed sitting down, but have been known to continue shopping clutching a feeding baby to breast (or child, I fed dd browsing ikea when she was almost two).
Don't get discreet feeding versus non discreet. All that's on show is child's head.
In my case I need the whole bb completely free because I'm so prone to blocked ducts. I'm not risking mastitis because someone I don't know might object to my perfectly presentable bb! The only exception is when I'm bfing her in the ring sling, then it's completely covered.
I have no idea why it's necessary to be discreet while bfing, but not when you go down to the beach. And have you seen what teenagers are wearing?? And as for music videos...
Last edited by Jennifer13; March 29th, 2012 at 05:54 PM.
My little man refuses discreet feeding lol - he hates being covered up and will constantly thrash about and pull of until the cloth is removed! And I agree all u can see when they are feeding is skin and I think there are a lot of cleavage tops out there that show much more skin than BF does!!
Amelia hates anything touching her feet when I'm feeding her (except me pretending to eat them ), heaven forbid anything touch her FACE! Meltdown galore!
Oh I hear you on the bub not liking a cover - a well meaning friend tried to drape a jacket over us once, Monkey absolutely cracked it and took me a good 10 mins to settle him enough to continue the feed. Never again!
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), heaven forbid anything touch her FACE!
Meltdown galore!
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