High Maintenance Baby!!!
Hello everyone! After a perfect pregnancy, I feel like I am paying back with my “being mom” experience... I have a 4weeks old baby who
- Has fussy hours every morning and every night - 4 to 6 hours each- where she wants to be breast fed almost all that time, don’t sleep and fights with boobs and cries when the milk flow drops...
-Sleeps average 12 Hours a day. Her longer sleep stretch is 2 hours which is only once a day. Her typical sleep stretch is only 1 hour
- After every wake feeds at least 20-30 mins
- poops well, gains weight, hitting all the miles-stones and as of our first month old appointment, it has been official that she is just a high maintenance baby...
SO FAR WE HAVE TRIED;
- Swaddling all the time
- Creating day-time, night-time routines,
-Bouncers, rocking bassinets, etc...
-Baby wearing, going out
-Rocking her in arms while walking around the house, sitting, lying..
- And supplementing with expressed breast milk at nights when the production is slower...
LOOKS LIKE;
- All she wants to do is eat eat and eat
-She doesn’t care for sleep as much,
- She doesn’t have reflux, GERD, colic- thank god!
- Dr is hopeful that it will get better by 8th week- I am not😕
-She is a bit clingy and loves mama a lot 😂😂
Is there anybody else out there having similar issues..? What are your remedies? How are you dealing with sitting down on a chair and breast feeding your baby approx 6 hours a day without a proper sleep more than an hour at a time..?
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