um. I have been breastfeeding every half hour for the last eight weeks!!! someone please help me! sometimes, she will nurse for 10-20-40min,,, but then. SOMETIMES she will nurse for HOURS on end!!! especially in the morning and at night! she can be awake for 4 or 5 hours just trying to gain sustenance from my breasts! that can't be right! a tiny baby MUST sleep or get cranky, right? we all need a rest! we all need time to play... or LEARN things about the world around us!!!
my lactation consultant suggested five min on one side then switch and do five min. on the other side? well, all that did was cause me to loose sleep! as then, the one month old baby would wake up EVERY single hour to feed at night! yikes! (previously, she was sleeping 2-3-4-5 hours for the first part of the night, then waking every hour after that) so, we did go back to the "old" regular way, 10-20 min (as the baby decides). plus, she gets all that yummy hind milk that way.
i have pumped my breasts. i usually only get a mere one or one and half oz. (one side or both sides combined! is that very little milk flow???) ... OH! except in the morning, rarely, (when she has not nursed every half hour) i can get 2 and half oz from ONE breast! wow! that's like amazing for me! are my breasts low flow? how much milk does a mom usually produce?
please forgive me, if i can not relpy! we will be in a nursing frenzy from 6-10pm (sometimes until midnight!) usually, i can take all this nursing with very good humor! i am pretty needy. i love to feel the comfort and love of holding my baby close! (i have loved a child and lost a child before. but that's another story)... PS. my other child did NOT nurse every half hour! what would make this child do this? has my body changed? is this new baby different? what has happened?
my lactation consultant suggested five min on one side then switch and do five min. on the other side? well, all that did was cause me to loose sleep! as then, the one month old baby would wake up EVERY single hour to feed at night! yikes! (previously, she was sleeping 2-3-4-5 hours for the first part of the night, then waking every hour after that) so, we did go back to the "old" regular way, 10-20 min (as the baby decides). plus, she gets all that yummy hind milk that way.
i have pumped my breasts. i usually only get a mere one or one and half oz. (one side or both sides combined! is that very little milk flow???) ... OH! except in the morning, rarely, (when she has not nursed every half hour) i can get 2 and half oz from ONE breast! wow! that's like amazing for me! are my breasts low flow? how much milk does a mom usually produce?
please forgive me, if i can not relpy! we will be in a nursing frenzy from 6-10pm (sometimes until midnight!) usually, i can take all this nursing with very good humor! i am pretty needy. i love to feel the comfort and love of holding my baby close! (i have loved a child and lost a child before. but that's another story)... PS. my other child did NOT nurse every half hour! what would make this child do this? has my body changed? is this new baby different? what has happened?
she was a mere 6lbs6oz at birth and is now more than 9lbs1oz (we saw the dr a week or two ago). 
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