Comforting a breastfed baby

I'm finding the only way I can soothe my 3 week old baby is by putting her on the boob! Others can rock/sway her and shes off to sleep no problem but she doesn't settle with me like this. I don't think she's clusterfeeding and she is full because she tends to bring up whatever she drinks during these comfort feeds. Any advice or is this just life with a breastfed baby? 🫠

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Place a muslin in with her that smells of you / soaked in your milk especially now in the heatwave weather , that helped when I had my prem son at 24wks ( As you can imagine we spent alot of our time apart , while he was in the nicu ) so him having an item that smelt of me really helped him settle.

Have you tried a dummy? Sometimes baby wants to suck but doesn’t want the milk. Very important you don’t use it instead of feeds and always offer boob first to maintain your milk supply but if you’re confident it’s just for comfort you can swap out for the dummy x

Pretty much just the breastfed baby life. High biological alertness.They associate mums smell with milk and then expect to nurse. Will settle with other caregivers as no milk scent to cue feeding 🤣 it can be tough, but just know its not anything your doing wrong 💕

She is only three weeks old! Boob boob boob

This is literally my little girl as well! Really hard in this heat, I’ve also tried the dummy with her and she does not like them compared to the boob!

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