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My 2 month old has just started sleeping for long periods at night, sometimes 6-8 hours at a time, last night 12 hours solid (6pm-6am !! i know I?m very lucky) . I am wondering if this will affect my milk supply. She feeds well throughout the day. I wake up very engorged if she doesn?t wake for a feed in the night.
Would love to know if I need to do anything ASAP incase my milk supply suffers. Thanks.
It hasn't affected my milk when Jazz decides to sleep through, but i do express when i wake up. She went through 2 weeks of sleeping through every night, and I didn't have any problems with running out of milk, or supply decreasing. I think as long as they feed well during the day the boobies will know what to do!
I had a problem with lack of supply with my DS so this time was worried the same thing would happen. The LC I was seeing suggested a dream feed between 10pm-12am which will maintain your supply. She said not to let it get past 6 or 7hrs between feeds otherwise supply may suffer, not sure if thats fact, just in her opinion (Barb may be able to confirm that) or just in my case because I did have low supply in the beginning this time too.
Woohoo on the big sleeps!!
Your supply should adjust accordingly. So if the day feeds are the same or increased, you supply will stay the same or increase, but after a few days you should start to produce less at night so that you don't feel engorged in the morning. But overall you should still have enough milk. It wouldn't hurt to dream feed before you go to bed, but if your baby is still drinking well during the day it shouldn't be necessary. My first DS slept 8 - 12 hours a night from 6 weeks and I had plenty of milk. He was drinking every 1 1/2 hours during the day though.
My dd has been sleeping for 10-12 hours (some night not) and I have had no proplem with the milk supply and have kept up with what she needs. So you should have no problem either.
Your supply will adjust to when it is required (clever bbs!). Yes, it may drop off overnight (but if bub is not wanting to be fed overnight then that's not a problem) and if your baby then increases their daytime feeds your bbs will produce more then.
Don't spread around you're getting long overnight sleeps - everyone will be jealous!