eating all the time!!

[daniel'smom]

so ever since ds (7wk) started eating less frequently at night (usually around 1 and 4) he is nursing almost every two hours during the day. Of course, if he's in a light sleep pattern during a nap, he wakes up and is hungry, which makes for short naps and overtired baby and stressed mama. Anyone else see this when nighttime eating goes down?? DS nurses one side only--I can't get him to take more at a feed no matter what I try--and he's refluxy too (not horrible, though)

Any advice? Or do I just nurse every 2 hours and deal with the short naps until he gets bigger??

Thanks

[Samuel's mum]

If he's refluxy at all that might be part of it. Reflux babies tend to do better with smaller more regular meals.

Depending on how long this has been going on for it might also be a growth spurt in the mix.

Everyone's breast storage capacity is different and whatever some people attempt it's not going to always be possible to go to the longer intervals some people manage. (Breast storage capacity is only part of the story as milk is made continuously but it does have some part to play in interval length. It's not the same thing as 'supply' as supply will be about the same for almost all women over 24 hours). But 2 hours forever would be unusual.
I wouldn't settle for 2 hours and just wait for him to grow out of it. See what you can do. Have you tried extending very gradually even by only 2-5 mins a day. You could also perhaps try a couple of cycles of EAEASY a day (a really short second A just so he goes down awake) and see if that breaks the cycle of him being overtired and having a really short nap.