Breast feeding & struggling

Is anyone else exclusively breastfeeding and struggling with the nighttime?

My baby is 6 days old and during the first few days it was much easier, i’m pretty good with no sleep as long as I get at least 40-60 minutes but for the last couple of days its been awful.

I breastfeed him, he falls asleep, I try to transfer him to the next to me and he’s asleep for a couple of mins then bam, eyes wide open.

Nothing settles him other than my breast, we’ve tried it all.

Yesterday I was breastfeeding him for 8 hours in total 😭😭

Thankfully I managed to make it through last night because he fell asleep resting on my chest and I fell asleep sat up right whilst my partner watched us both (not sure how I’d do it with him).

This is just so draining 😭

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All this is normal baby is only 6 days he spent 9 months in your womb… hang in there the first six weeks are the hardest it will get « easier » before toddler phase start 😅

Bless you, I am on day 8 and day 5 & 6 were prob the worst for me. I think it’s gonna go up and down for a while!
are you swaddling? Mine won’t sleep without one.
I’ve been feeding on the nursing chair then letting her fall asleep on me and leave her for a good 10 mins to try and get a deeper sleep, then put in her swaddle, then rock her again before I put her down and leave my hand on her chest for a minute then slowly remove and most of the time it works (not always!!)

I think they just want to be on us all the time and would if they could! Also depends on what they’re wearing if they’re a bit cold I wonder if putting them down they feel cold once off of us if not enough layers - so hard to know for the best though!

Hope it gets better for you xx

No advice but sending love ❤️

make sure they arent in active sleep when you transfer them. when they are making all the cute sleep faces and stuff they arent in a deep sleep yet. wait for the faces to stop and give it like 5 min after that, and that normally works for my little man

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