I have a 6week old DD. She is gaining weight well and has plenty of wet and dirty nappies, though she has gone from hovering just above the 75th%ile line to just below it.
She sleeps INCREDIBLY well. From birth she's been sleeping 5 hours most nights and twice she has slept 7. She theoretically sleeps in a cot next to my bed (pushed up against it) but in reality we co-slept solidly for the first month and now she goes into the cot at midnight and comes out to feed whenever she wakes and spends the rest of the night in with me. I did kind of think being right beside me meant she woke more to eat, but last night she slept 7 hours cuddled against me (i put her in her cot but her breathing sounded like she might be a bit scared, although she wasn't making any sounds at all, but she wasn't relaxing in any case so i brought her in with me instead). She is often awake a lot in the day, more than one might expect for a small baby (she is getting older of course, but her sleep has been about the same since day 6 or 7) but she isn't crying, just alert and smiling. I wear her a lot, she is rarely "put down".
I had been pumping every morning, and was getting 5-9oz/day in the one pumping. She just went through a bit of a spurt where for 2 nights and days she wanted to feed all the time. So i fed her all the time and i didn't bother pumping (i had been wanting to stop, i have over 6litres of EBM frozen!). I was full this morning after her 7hours, but not in pain, she fed at about 7am and again at about 9am, then 10.30am, 12pm, 2.30pm - she tends to cluster feed in the evenings, last night i fed her more or less continuously for 3 hours. In the mornings she tends to take one breast at a time, in the evenings she has both sides at each feeding, and when she cluster feeds i just switch back and forth - i can always feel let-down and hear swallowing every few sucks. She sometimes throws up a LOT of milk when she's eaten too much. I am never refusing or delaying feeds, i don't CIO or even leave her restless - i offer the breast all the time. She sucks on nothing but me, no paci, no thumb, no fingers/fist etc.
So my questions:
Will her sleeping so long at night make a dent in my supply? Or will she just adjust her feeding patterns to keep my supply despite her long sleeps?
If she continues to gain rather slowly (she's gained 1kilo since birth, which is within "normal" but not following a curve) should i wake her to feed? Or should i just trust that if i feed her as much as she wants she will gain as much as she should?
I WANT to be able to just trust that her development is normal for her and the chart is irrelevant - my health visitor was very positive about her and said she was thriving. But i lost my supply with DD1 (due to a thyroid problem my doctor is on top of this time) between 4 and 7months PP, and i really want to make it to at least 12months this time. TIA.
She sleeps INCREDIBLY well. From birth she's been sleeping 5 hours most nights and twice she has slept 7. She theoretically sleeps in a cot next to my bed (pushed up against it) but in reality we co-slept solidly for the first month and now she goes into the cot at midnight and comes out to feed whenever she wakes and spends the rest of the night in with me. I did kind of think being right beside me meant she woke more to eat, but last night she slept 7 hours cuddled against me (i put her in her cot but her breathing sounded like she might be a bit scared, although she wasn't making any sounds at all, but she wasn't relaxing in any case so i brought her in with me instead). She is often awake a lot in the day, more than one might expect for a small baby (she is getting older of course, but her sleep has been about the same since day 6 or 7) but she isn't crying, just alert and smiling. I wear her a lot, she is rarely "put down".
I had been pumping every morning, and was getting 5-9oz/day in the one pumping. She just went through a bit of a spurt where for 2 nights and days she wanted to feed all the time. So i fed her all the time and i didn't bother pumping (i had been wanting to stop, i have over 6litres of EBM frozen!). I was full this morning after her 7hours, but not in pain, she fed at about 7am and again at about 9am, then 10.30am, 12pm, 2.30pm - she tends to cluster feed in the evenings, last night i fed her more or less continuously for 3 hours. In the mornings she tends to take one breast at a time, in the evenings she has both sides at each feeding, and when she cluster feeds i just switch back and forth - i can always feel let-down and hear swallowing every few sucks. She sometimes throws up a LOT of milk when she's eaten too much. I am never refusing or delaying feeds, i don't CIO or even leave her restless - i offer the breast all the time. She sucks on nothing but me, no paci, no thumb, no fingers/fist etc.
So my questions:
Will her sleeping so long at night make a dent in my supply? Or will she just adjust her feeding patterns to keep my supply despite her long sleeps?
If she continues to gain rather slowly (she's gained 1kilo since birth, which is within "normal" but not following a curve) should i wake her to feed? Or should i just trust that if i feed her as much as she wants she will gain as much as she should?
I WANT to be able to just trust that her development is normal for her and the chart is irrelevant - my health visitor was very positive about her and said she was thriving. But i lost my supply with DD1 (due to a thyroid problem my doctor is on top of this time) between 4 and 7months PP, and i really want to make it to at least 12months this time. TIA.
. I'm sure you just made a number of mom's really jealous.
