baby keeps sleeping

[serpantdedieu]

My newborn is 6days old and everytime I feed her she falls asleep almost immediately no matter how hungry she is . I can never give her a full session and she always ends up hungry again in a half hour only to fall asleep at the breast again. Its like I'm always feeding her now what should i do???

[cecilia_morgan]

Ahh yes pismo that's good advise I forgot about that :-)

[cecilia_morgan]

Aww I'm sorry huny my son did that to me as well. Hed eat for 10 minutes and often ended up falling asleep lol then wanted to eat again 30 minutes later ik your not exaggerating. I actually let my mom freak out and she told me hec want getting enough to eat so I have him a bottle and he ate 4 oz at 1 month old. I think we just had sleepy babies who liked to eat :-( very stressful and time consuming. My advise talk to your doctor about it. Hang in there keep up the breastfeeding :-) try not to get discouraged. I promise it gets better. The first 6_8 weeks are very difficult they eat a lot bc they have growth spurts constantly at that time and sleep a lot bc they are nb. But if you can be patient with her I think you'll find it very rewarding :-)

[Pismo7]

A little trick is to tickle their face/cheek, gets the sucking reflex going. I used to do this with my daughter all the time.