Exhaustion

Anyone else feeling completely exhausted? I'm currently 2.5 weeks postpartum and trying to get my milk supply and production up so have been either breastfeeding or pumping quite regularly. The past few nights I've been up for about 2-3 hours at 2am, and then again at about 7am + for pumping, feeding and changing nappies. Yesterday the total breastfeeding time was 7 hours and pumping was 2.5 hours. I am really exhausted but I am conscious about cutting down on pumping or feeding as I really hope this breastfeeding thing works out well In the end (hoping to get a good excess supply of pumped breastmilk so my husband can also feed her and I can get more rest/break).

Anyone has any thoughts or advice on dealing with exhaustion particularly with having to pump and breastfeed?

I try to take a nap in the afternoon too but the broken sleep in the early hours is catching up on me.

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