Does BFing (cluster) tire you out?

[HotI]

In the evening, BFing (especially if it goes for a long time) just wipes me out. If bub then goes to sleep, i recover within 20 mins and feel good again. If she is having a party night, it just sucks cos after a long feed or multiple feeds i just don't have the energy to pat or do whatever else to get her to sleep.

do others get this too?

[MummaSue]

yeah me too DD still feeds like a new born

[*TripleJ*]

yeah i do but if u have a bottle of water nearby it helps a bit not much but a bit lol

[MantaRay]

It's been a while since I've breastfed (a couple of years actually) but I still find I get tired at that time of night. I think it's more the busy day and being a mum that is tiring. I found breastfeeding helped because at least I could (mostly? sometimes?) sit and rest while feeding.

[helle]

apparently there is a hormone that is triggered during night feeds (So Dr Karl on JJJ was saying XD) that is meant to help baby sleep, that you also get too. I guess it's natures way of making sure you get back to sleep ASAP so you're not THAT sleep deprived...

Might go google up on that out of interest now '

ETA

When the baby suckles, the mother releases CCK. The hormone infusion relaxes her and readies her to drift off to sleep again.

Quote from the blisstree website.

[MantaRay]

That's true helle. Studies have shown bfing mums get more sleep than ffing mums and that lovely hormone contributes. That's why it's so hard to stay awake during night feeds - gotta love co-sleeping!!