Could be a growth spurt - he's about the right age for one I think. At around 10-11 weeks DS fed every 1.5hrs during the day and 2-3 hourly overnight for about 3-4 days and then my supply caught up and things settled down again. He always cluster fed from around 4pm to 7pm also....
Aww thanks ladies. I rung the hospital yesterday to see if they have a LC and i went straight up there after getting off the phone, she told me to up my Motilium dosage to two tablets three times per day instead of one tablet three times per day. She seems to think i am doing everything else right although she thinks we need to try and get him away from wanting to snack constantly. The problem is when he feeds he only sucks for maybe 5-10minutes then decides to go to sleep and when i put him down he then wakes up and wants to be fed again I think it is just going to be perserverence and he will slowly grow out of it. It isn't as though he is underweight or not putting weight on or anything.
I put my dosage of the Motilium upto two tablets from lunch time yesterday and i have already noticed a difference....filling up alot quicker. All in all i was pretty happy with what the LC had to say to me and was even happy for her to say i am pretty much doing every thing right....thanks to all you ladies of cause
Nearly forgot, when he had his 4pm bottle yesterday he only consumed 120mls and the same for his bedtime bottle as well, so he only had a total of 240mls of formula yesterday! So he is filling up on my gold juice quite well now isn't he?
Nothing much has changed, he is still wanting to snack heaps during the day but i am telling myself that is fine because he has been sleeping 9hrs overnight!
I reckon i must lose 100mls of milk in my breastpads overnight...quite leaky by the morning.
He is still having one between 3-5pm and then one to go to bed with about 8pm and always offering the breast first before each bottle feed.
He is being a bit of a bugger atm with day time sleeping...well actually it is non existant! He might sleep if i lay him down in my bed with my boobie in his mouth, where as at night he self settles and puts himself to sleep after his last bottle. I don't know if it is that he isn't full enough to put himself to sleep of what?? My supply is good in the morning but then i don't seem to satisfy him after that...am i just being paranoid?? I feel soft during the day...i do start to fill up and then he feeds again, it kinda feels as though there just isn't enough there during the day IYKWIM, how do i pick up my supply during the day??
Your bbs not feeling 'full' is not an indication of your supply. Most mums don't feel full anymore after the first couple of months (I think for me it was 6-8 weeks). Some settle down more quickly.
As long as you are used to bfing him at a certain time, the milk will be there. Towards the end of the day a baby is more likely to be fussy and more difficult to settle for many reasons, and not usually your milk supply. I remember my DD would cluster feed in the evenings, three times in about 3 hrs and what seemed quick bfs. If I hadn't been told about this at a bfing class, I would have assumed I was not giving her enough milk, but actually, she was just filling herself up before bed. She would then sleep for a lot longer.
Don't worry about whether you have enough during the day - if you feed him, it will be there!
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I think it is just going to be perserverence and he will slowly grow out of it. It isn't as though he is underweight or not putting weight on or anything.
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