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How long is your little ones feeding for? My LB is 4 months next week and his feeds vary xx

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My girl is 13 weeks and her feeds really vary too. Anything from like 4 minutes up to 15 at the moment x

My 12 week old feeds pretty much to a schedule which she’s made herself 😂 She wakes up, or if she’s already awake she cries, for a feed pretty much every two hours on the dot and she usually feeds for around 20 minutes. Apart from at night when she sleeps through

During the day seems to be shorter feeds at around 5-7mins otherwise about 12 mins

Five and a half minutes apart from before bedtime when she feeds for up to an hour 😅

My little girl feeds for a minimum of 20mins every 2 hours during the day and usually for an hour every 4 hours at night

My girl is 12 weeks and some feeds are 5/6 minutes but then others can be 20-40 minutes. Doesn’t seem to be much pattern to it! I think it depends on how thirsty and/or hungry she is.

My 13 week old tends to feed very 2-3 hours for about 8 minutes on average

My 12w old between 5-20 minutes, he won’t won’t comfort suck anymore just flings his head off and tries to take my nipple with him 🥹

My little girl has been cluster feeding since she hit around 4 months along with a BIG sleep regression during the day. She wants nothing to do with naps lately unless it’s 30 mins a piece maybe an hr 😣. She eats every 30 min to 3 hr depending on cluster or not. She drinks about 5-20 mins depending on if it’s just a quick snack: drink or a comfort nurse/ actually hungry.

My 12 week old is still every 2 hours during day some times 3. And feeds between 5 and 20mins. Night time he wakes twice for feed

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How would you feel?

Just curious as I feel like I’m being petty but I thought I’d ask. I made what I thought was a good mum friend a while ago but after a string of comments on my parenting and then the final breaking point was making unkind comments about my daughter that made my daughter cry because she said it in front of her to her own children I decided it was best to end the friendship. I said it politely and just said that I couldn’t have my daughter around someone like that and I wished her and her girls the best.

Well now probably my closest mum friend is hanging out with her a lot and they’ve gone on family days out etc.

Am I being petty? Would you be a little hurt by it?

I just wouldn’t entertain someone who spoke negatively about my close friends children or her parenting. I don’t know I guess I feel a little hurt 🫣

* I’d NEVER tell my friend who she can’t and can be friends with. I’m an adult and can deal with it quietly and be happy for her to have another friend but really.. it has to be THAT friend?!* 😂

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So I stopped BF at 3 weeks old and I stopped for 2 reasons

1) I hated what it was doing to my boobs and wanted one thing for myself since all of me belonged to my child
**(I know some of you may think that’s selfish on my part but my baby was strong and healthy and I asked my doctor what they thought before I stopped)**

2) i was going back to work and didn’t wanna stop working and go and pump every two hours because my work place was pretty fast paced and I didn’t wanna do that and it took about 45 minutes for me to set up and pump and then take everything down.

I want to restart since I am now a sahm.
Has anyone ever stopped and restarted after a few months??? If you did how was it? What did you do to restart your supply??

How often do you check nappies?

No judgement please but I just wondered how often you check nappies? I tend to wait a couple of hours unless I hear her poo in which case I’ll change her straight away. This morning at 5:35am I put her down in the next to me after a feed thinking when my husband got up for work 25 mins later I’d wake up and change her, but then I didn’t wake up until 7:15 (and he didn’t know I’d not done it) and so she wasn’t changed for about 4 hours (from the last feed) and I feel so guilty 😭 but it’s made me wonder if I should be doing it more during the day too. She’s breastfed so does go in her nappy a lot but I don’t really check for wees. She gets so hysterical when she gets changed it breaks my heart so I probably put it off a little bit too.

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My 5 week old will go to sleep after a feed around 10/10:30pm BEAUTIFULLY. However once she has woken around 1:30-2am and we have changed and fed her (in low red light, no talking etc), she will be put down for all of 15 minutes before she is loudly grunting which leads to crying. It's worth saying that we are having to keep her upright for 20-30 minutes after each feed due to reflux.

She has recently been diagnosed with CMPA and has been moved onto prescribed milk with gaviscon for her reflux. We thought the discomfort from that was keeping her up but it isn't.
We are really struggling with this wake up time. Once we've spent an hour or two trying to get her back to sleep, one of us is forced to get up for the day with her around 4am.

I know she's very young, but any tips for getting her back down after that middle of the night feed would be greatly appreciated just to get a little more sleep.