Night feeds

How is everyone staying awake during night feeds? I often can feel myself starting to nod off when he is feeding at 2am.

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I often have to sit up in bed, even legs out, a drink while my wee man is feeding

I get out of bed to change her in the nursery first, so that I am wide awake and then feed her

As above - get up to change baby so both of us are awake. Then I sit in chair to nurse and put in earphones to listen to an audiobook. I have water, cereals bars, nipple shields, warm clothes and a blanket beside the nursing chair to entice me over to it! If I get lazy and feed in bed I keep dozing off

I’m always drifting off feeding LG in bed! i play silly games on my iPad to try stay awake. but i do usually jolt myself awake in front of whatever distraction i’ve got.

It is hard as I'm normally awake for 6-8hrs straight because of the witching hour with feeding my girl every 30-60mins! My husband tells me to put on programmes on the TV etc but I feel like I would miss out if she was asleep or not?

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