This is interesting Siobhan. It sounds like it worked well for you. I think it must be a girl thing as my DD is also a very distracted feeder and supposedly I was the same. if theres anyone talking or nearby she pulls off to look. im having to express and feed a bottle when out as its a nightmare to get her to take a feed and i end up sitting with boobs on show as she keeps pulling off to look at something!Currently the 11am feed is probably her biggest apart from bedtime as she isn't taking much in the morning at all. I really need to get her to be a bit hungrier for the first feed in order that I can do this one before i go. I'm not sure the solution. when i try to dream feed she still seems to wake just as much to be fed in the night and still isnt very hungry in the morning.
Today she seemed ridiculously hungry all day though.. may just be a one off but if it keeps up she may be trying to tell me something. today she fed at 8, top up at 9.30 as she'd had a bath so was hungry, 12, 1.30, 3, 6.30 then wouldnt go to bed so fed again and she was hitting me getting annoyed as she wasnt getting enough so i heated up some expressed milk and she took another 5.5oz from the bottle! she hasnt had a feeding day like that in ages. i know shes actually hungry as she never nurses for comfort.. goes mad if i offer her when she isnt hungry. it does slightly make me worry what if she was hungry like that and i wasnt around.. its so much easier just whipping ur boob out to see if that whats up or not than heating up a bottle!
