Snacking or comfort breastfeeding

I’d love to know how you get your Bubba to sleep for periods that long during the day. My 8 week old will sleep for maybe 30 minutes at a time

I’m sure that must be a comfort thing! Unless it’s cluster feeding, is this a one off or is it always like this? Your poor nipples?! 🥹🥹🥹

We use a dummy if he’s fussing or upset when I’ve done a full feed so I know he’s not hungry… maybe give it a go and see what happens? Took a few different dummy shapes for us to know which one our 2 month old likes!

Dummies do help heaps as my midwife advised me to use dummies as bub was doing the same thing

I've used a dummy, which he doesn't take all the time but some naps will fuss until he gets it. He likes the jollypop ones like the hospitals use but 3 month version as it matches my nipple size.

Latch is good? At 8 weeks my bub feeds during the day maybe 1-2 per wake period and at night will do more of the comfort sucking but not as snacks as that. If you are willing try a dummy. It took a little bit to get used to it but he will cry if he's really hungry and not take the dummy.

these were contact naps, she’ll stir a few times mid nap and feed back to sleep. If I didn’t nurse her back to sleep she would have woken up much earlier. When she’s slept in the bassinet she sleeps for much shorter durations, maybe 20 - 30 minutes.

it’s always like this. She naps really well so long as she’s able to feed / suck midway through the nap! What dummy do you recommend? ☺️

that’s good to know! Which one do you use?

yes, no problem with breastfeeding or latch. She’s a really good feeder, just loves to comfort suckle. I’ll try the Jollypop dummies and see if that helps.

she loves being close to you I’m sure! Ive definitely noticed if I keep holding ours after a feed, he will keep doing the rooting reflex and show signs of feeding/wanting to suck even if we’ve done a full feed. So I know it’s for comfort, but if I keep feeding him he gets over full and vomits so I’ve learnt not to! I usually pass him to my husband or pop him down to play when that happens because otherwise I would be feeding 24/7.

Ours seems to like the flatter dummy shape rather than the cherry shape. I think it’s a Phillips Avent style, maybe ultra air?

my 8weeks old has uninterrupted naps from half an hour to 1,5/2 hours, and at night he used to sleep 4 and up to 6 hours in a row with no problem, (at 8 weeks they have some growing and changing, so his night schedule is a bit less relaxed than before, but getting there again 🤞🏼)
Overall for day and night good sleep, my secret is to keep him busy and entertained right after the daytime feeds, so he’ll have at least two good naps and a good night of sleep waking up only once (for night time I introduced almost daily routine: feed, entertainment for at least half an hour, 5/10 minutes bath, another good feed, sleep through for at least 4 hours 😇)