Hi, my 13 wo has recently started to feed quite poorly. Up until now she has been an excellent feeder, nursing every three hours during the day and then going 5 hours at night for her first stretch then every 3 hours thereafter. I have never been able to do a dreamfeed because she is way to sensitive and wakes right up.
Lately however, she seems so distracted that she isn't nursing well. She is incredibly impatient waiting for my milk to come in, but once it does she will often nurse for a couple of minutes and then begin bobbing on and off, so much that she is beginning to rub the hair off the side of her head! I have tried feeding her in her room away from all the action and it doesn't seem to make much difference. She is still sleeping long enough during the day so it doesn't appear that she is getting hungry. I doubt that I could start working towards a 4 hour EASY yet as she can only stay up about 1-1.25 hours during the day before she starts yawning.
Night time now however, is a different story. She is now starting to wake up every two hours or so just squirming and wiggling around like crazy. I have tried getting her back to sleep, but I am so worried that she is hungry that I usually try feeding her after about 2 1/2 hours. She still bobs around a fair bit but she generally will eat, although nowhere near as well as she was a couple of weeks ago. Her sleep is very fitful now at night...as is mine!
The only thing that I can think of is that some of this started after she drank from a bottle for a day while I was away. I expected her to be a little impatient the first day or so back on the breast but I can't imagine that she would still be hanging on to that after two weeks!
Not sure if I should be concerned or not. I remember DS doing a bit of that, but not as bad as this. Any comments/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!
