dude123470
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Hi everyone. FTM, EBF. My five week old daughter received her hep. b shot yesterday afternoon. She nursed at her typical 2 hour mark (with lots of snuggles/sleep in between) until about 6am this morning, I’m now going on 6 hours of feeding, with one tiny nap, a quick bath, and many diaper changes in between.
The last two weeks, she’s been cluster feeding in the evenings (2 hours or so), with back to back long feeding sessions (over 30/40 mins), she was struggling to gain weight prior to the cluster feedings starting (only 2/3 oz a week for those first few weeks)... but now she’s gained a whopping 10.5 oz. in one week - according to her weight in yesterday.
Birth weight: 6 lbs 5.6 oz
Yesterday’s weigh in: 7lbs 7.5 oz
My feeding chart tells me that the last two weeks she’s nursing anywhere from 6-7 hours per day. As opposed to 4-5 hours when she wasn’t cluster feeding. She seems to be actively nursing 90% of the time, and kind of sleep sucking otherwise...
Is there any concern about nursing too long - or gaining too much weight too quickly? If she struggled to gain weight prior to cluster feeding - does that spell trouble for us? How can I help her nurse more efficiently - I typically do breast compressions about 50% of the time I’m nursing. Can breast compressions cause a baby to become a lazy nursing?
I’m assuming she’s on this 6 hour run because of wanting comfort from her stressful doc. apt. yesterday. But boy are my nipples sore....
Additional note: TONS of wet & dirty diapers.
The last two weeks, she’s been cluster feeding in the evenings (2 hours or so), with back to back long feeding sessions (over 30/40 mins), she was struggling to gain weight prior to the cluster feedings starting (only 2/3 oz a week for those first few weeks)... but now she’s gained a whopping 10.5 oz. in one week - according to her weight in yesterday.
Birth weight: 6 lbs 5.6 oz
Yesterday’s weigh in: 7lbs 7.5 oz
My feeding chart tells me that the last two weeks she’s nursing anywhere from 6-7 hours per day. As opposed to 4-5 hours when she wasn’t cluster feeding. She seems to be actively nursing 90% of the time, and kind of sleep sucking otherwise...
Is there any concern about nursing too long - or gaining too much weight too quickly? If she struggled to gain weight prior to cluster feeding - does that spell trouble for us? How can I help her nurse more efficiently - I typically do breast compressions about 50% of the time I’m nursing. Can breast compressions cause a baby to become a lazy nursing?
I’m assuming she’s on this 6 hour run because of wanting comfort from her stressful doc. apt. yesterday. But boy are my nipples sore....
Additional note: TONS of wet & dirty diapers.
thanks for the encouragement!