Hi, I'm here to answer your breastfeeding questions

[BecomingMothers]

Hi,

I'm here for a few hours to answer your breastfeeding questions.
Stepanie Moore, RN, BSN, IBCLC
Owner
Becoming Mothers
Boulder, CO
www.becomingmothers.com

[sking]

I am desperate to get some answers about a terrible pattern in my baby's breastfeeding. She is 7 weeks old and was born one week before her due date via induction. Our problem goes as follows: My baby wakes up from her nap nurses for no more than 5 min. and goes to sleep, she sleeps for ten minutes or so, wakes up and nurses for another short time and goes right back to sleep. She continues this pattern for three or four times during one feeding (three hour period). Because of overproduction issues (milk squirting out, still feeling engorged..etc), I am only nursing one breast every three hours. At the end, she only gets to sleep for 30-40 minutes tops at a time. This is very fatiguing to me. I never get to rest while she is sleeping. Is there anything I can do? Is she going to grow out of it and nurse one-long-stretch per feeding? (and hopefully sleep for a little longer?)

I have looked in baby developmental books, breast feeding books, sleeping books, etc. I can not find any answers.