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Dropping a night feed - painful!
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om... My daughter is ten weeks old (but a big girl - she was 10 days overdue), and feeds every 3-4 hours during the day, but then at night, I feed her at 10, and then was feeding her at 3 am and then again at 7:30. She seems to be ready to drop the 3 am feeding; she was still asleep and I was waking her because I was engorged and she was just fidgeting, but she didn't seem to want to drink much. So, I skipped it a couple of nights and she went through until 6 am with no problem for her... and I expressed milk at 3 am. I'm finding it excruciating to not pump at 3 and go to 6 am... and if I do both, my sleep is worse, not better! Also, if I keep pumping at 3 am, won;t my breasts never get the hint? So do I just need to tough it out and eventually ti will get better? I would pump, but just enough to relieve the engorgement and pump a little less each evening until you can go through the night. You will find that your breasts are still fairly full in the morning but it won't hurt nearly as much. My DD (3.75 months) has been sleeping through since she was 1.5 months and my breasts are still quite full and leaking in the morning but they don't hurt the way they used to. I'm also wondering what to do during the day.... she is seeming to want to sleep longer than the usual 4 hours... should I just let her and stretch out the feedings until she wakes up? My fear is then that if she feeds less frequently during the day she won't be able to go as long at night... so am I doing the right thing by waking her up every four hours during the day even when she seems like she wants to go 5 or 6 sometimes? Personally I would just let her sleep. It's entirely up to you though. Maybe you could try it out one day and see if she sleeps through the night. Nadene |
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Dropping a night feed - painful!
steph wrote in message om... My daughter is ten weeks old (but a big girl - she was 10 days overdue), and feeds every 3-4 hours during the day, but then at night, I feed her at 10, and then was feeding her at 3 am and then again at 7:30. She seems to be ready to drop the 3 am feeding; she was still asleep and I was waking her because I was engorged and she was just fidgeting, but she didn't seem to want to drink much. So, I skipped it a couple of nights and she went through until 6 am with no problem for her... and I expressed milk at 3 am. I'm finding it excruciating to not pump at 3 and go to 6 am... and if I do both, my sleep is worse, not better! Also, if I keep pumping at 3 am, won;t my breasts never get the hint? So do I just need to tough it out and eventually ti will get better? When my DD dropped her 2 am feed, I was so uncomfortable that I couldn't sleep. In the end I just held my breast over a sink and dripped. I wasn't very good at manual expressing then, and I didn't have a pump. I just let enough drip out to make myself comfortable. After a couple of weeks my body got the idea, and the supply adjusted. I'm also wondering what to do during the day.... she is seeming to want to sleep longer than the usual 4 hours... should I just let her and stretch out the feedings until she wakes up? My fear is then that if she feeds less frequently during the day she won't be able to go as long at night... so am I doing the right thing by waking her up every four hours during the day even when she seems like she wants to go 5 or 6 sometimes? Thanks for any advice... No ideas on this one sorry. DD was a four hour on the dot girl for 2 weeks, then was all over the place, but mostly between 2 and 3 1/2 hours. And if I did wake DD if she happened to sleep longer (she did 6 hours one day), she wouldn't feed anyway. Cathy |
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