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Food seeking
kdoak2015
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Hi everyone,
My DD is 5 weeks and seems to always be food seeking while she's awake. She's BF and supplemented with 2oZ of formula(not every feed but aprx 6 or so a day). She eats on demand aprx every 3hrs with a 4hr stretch at night. My problem is after she's "finished" she continues to food seek and if we give her more she spits up, after she spits up she continues to food seek until I put her back on the breast or we give her a soothers she goes to sleep. It's causing me a lot of confusion because I don't know when she's full, I don't know how much she's getting from the breast and how much formula she actually needs. We are trying to ween from formula but it's hard when she's always food seeking. Any experience/suggestions?
My DD is 5 weeks and seems to always be food seeking while she's awake. She's BF and supplemented with 2oZ of formula(not every feed but aprx 6 or so a day). She eats on demand aprx every 3hrs with a 4hr stretch at night. My problem is after she's "finished" she continues to food seek and if we give her more she spits up, after she spits up she continues to food seek until I put her back on the breast or we give her a soothers she goes to sleep. It's causing me a lot of confusion because I don't know when she's full, I don't know how much she's getting from the breast and how much formula she actually needs. We are trying to ween from formula but it's hard when she's always food seeking. Any experience/suggestions?
Re: Food seeking
1. When my son did this, I just gave him a boob. I did NOT follow a schedule. Babies can learn to suck while getting very little milk. I followed the philosophy that my baby was NOT using me as a pacifier, that in fact a pacifier is a substitute for the real thing: mommy's "nursies."
2. If you want to get off of formula, shouldn't you be nursing like crazy to up supply anyway?
3. There is a huge growth spurt at six weeks. Your lo may want to clusterfeed. Thus is normal for babies to nurse a ton, even every half hour, during these times.
4. Baby might not need the formula, especially if it is only 2 oz and she is spitting it all up. Another idea, she might be nursing to calm a tummy pain, maybe a silent reflux?
How is babies weight gain? I really hesitate to give any more specific advice, because really you and your doctor (and lc, if you are seeing one) know what is going n way better than us. The best advice I can give us just to forget about schedules if you are bfing and just nurse on demand. If she's rooting she needs to nurse, whether from comfort or hunger. If you think it's from hunger, then seek out a professional to evaluate her feeding.
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My babe is at the 3 month mark and seeks the breast often. That's just what babies do. I give it to him whenever he gives signs of wanting (or if I know it's been a while since he's eaten). Nursing is not just for food, it's comfort and bond-strengthening and sometimes they just want to be close to mama.