My daughter has always been a huge nurser, but I thought it would settle down by now. She has never popped off the breast because she was full. I've always had to end the feeding when I think she's full. I'm sure a lot of it is comfort sucking especially since she won't take a paci. Each day time feed is 20 - 30 min,but she will go as long as I will let her. It takes a solid hour of nursing at night to get her to go to sleep. If I stop earlier, she cries and won't settle with shh/pat. This happens at night too. She'll wake at 2am, eat for 40 min, then wake at 5:30am, eat for 45min - 1 hr, then eat again at 7am. I check to make sure she's swallowing and she is, albeit slowly after 30 min.
Should I let her nurse for so long? Is this affecting her night wakings? She was up at 2am, 3:45 and 5:30am last night. I tried shh/pat at 3:45 for 45 min but then had to feed her for 15 min to get her to sleep.
I try to get her to sleep by 8-8:30pm (can't do earlier because of my toddler). I've tried a DF at 10am, both breast and bottle, but she's not hungry since she ate from 7:30-8:30.
She's on 3.5 hr EASY and takes good naps during the day. I try to cluster feed in the evening (5pm, 6:30pm, 7:30pm) to speed up the evening but it doesn't work.
Any suggestions on how to shorten the feeds at night?
