Feeding and sleep (Expressing)

Our little one feeds every 2-5 hours depending on her mood she'll generally sleep 8-12 so we get to bed early feed at midnight till 1 ish at which point at the moment she won't go back to sleep till 6am.

So at the moment i bring her downstairs so husband rests, he wakes up when he's done and does everything but feed her till I've caught up on sleep then we have a good 4 hours in evening where we're both rested so one can manage baby whilst other does jobs which includes getting dogs Enrichment sorted for the next day and meals cooked

This was similar to me (im now 6 weeks in for reference - i still offer the boob in the hope he gets better particuarly as he was just over 5 weeks premature but is predominently fed via bottle with expressed milk at present). So I cut down to 6 pumps a day to give me some sanity and it helped and actually I didn't notice an increase in the occasional formula needed as I got higher volumes when there was a bigger gap. My supply has also continued to increase gradually as weeks have gone on mostly keeping up with his increase volumes. I relied on the help of my husband alot - so I only did one middle of the night pump and my husband would take the next feed giving me a longer break to sleep (we only give a bottle over night to allow more sleep as means the feeding cycle takes way less).
I've recently transitioned from a hospital grade double plug in pump to a portable elvie stride and this has meant I can get more done in the day - again I thought my supply might suffer but doesn't seem to have done.

I also was going to bed quite early initally - found that gave me a couple of hours. It gets easier as well as the gaps between feeds lengthens :)

Trying to keep myself alive let alone the baby and the pets is astounding to myself, if it wasn't for Dad the house wouldn't even get a look in of being tidied. So j feel this girl. You're not alone

My little boy tends to sleep from 9-12pm so I sleep then too and he’s then awake roughly from 12-6 on and off I find if I get that 9-12pm sleep it makes all the difference for my coping levels and am able to be much more stable and present with baby and appreciate the fact that he just needs me for extra comfort in those hours. He tends to fall back to sleep around 6am so then we both sleep until 10am and I’ve found that is enough to get me through the day if I can’t grab a nap because we have plans etc. it’s hard but you sound like you’re doing amazing and it won’t be this hard forever ♥️. One day they won’t need us so much and we will miss these precious moments we get to spend with them whilst the whole world’s asleep! Breastfeeding is harder than I thought it would be for sure but nothing worthwhile comes easy!