I have read that one! We have been using some of the methods with slow success.
We co sleep as well (when I can no longer keep re settling her in the cot) and I have been pulling her off when her sucking slows and then putting my back to her. It works some of the time, but then there are the times when she crawls up and peeks over my shoulder with a cheeky grin trying to look at me to ask for more boobie haha
I find that with the constant night feedings I get so exhausted I cave and resort back to simply feeding her to sleep and then have to start over again. I am hoping that with DP helping me we can help her get through the night without needing to nurse... He realized today that I am not coping and seems to be on board. Usually he kind of takes the stand of, oh I cant help because I don't have boobs grrrr.
HotI- to answer your qn, no it didn't effect either weight gains or supply for us. I was conscious of making sure they had enough and I did offer more feeds during the day but found it was hard to add much more than one extra in. By then my girls were feeding pretty much 3-4 hourly. It didn't effect our bf journey at all either they both continued on for many months after that.
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