welshcakes79

oh hun, your not putting her on a diet if you dont feed whenever she cries, does she bring her wind up easily? some babies with gripy bellies/colic take a feed coz it comforts them then they struggle with the wind hence the crying,...
if she is not colicy then maybe she is just a hungry baby, are you still combining breast and bottle? what formula is she on if you are? maybe you could ask HV about moving her to a hungrier baby milk..
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Tilly

Is she a long baby? cut a long story short (you may have seen me banging on about this story before though) but we got accused of "overfeeding" Bethanie because she vomited a little in her sleep and we took her to hospital just to be 100% sure everything was ok. We were made to feel like crap and treated quite badly! They failed to see that she was a long baby though, and slept straight through the night.. of bloody course she was going to drink more milk!!

Go with your instinct.. if shes hungry feed her. My only advice would be to not be so quick with assuming she is hungry as it can be easy to do that. Do not worry, being a new mummy is so nerve wracking.. soon you will be much more confident.

Im sure all will be fine

bev309

She's not crying because she is bored is she? Jack does when he is fed up & gets really ratty. With the dummy, I found with Jack that we had to really persevere as he used to spit it straight back out too. It still takes him a little while to latch onto it as he like to mess around with it before he starts sucking - but when he is hungry NOTHING is a susbstitute for his bottle, without ANYprior warning, he will scream the house down with tears until it hit his lips

sam's mum

Maybe you should try sticking with 5oz bottles and then put her on you if she seems hungry again - I know it'll probably take up far more of your time at first but if she isn't that hungry she hopefully won't overeat too much (if she is doing that now) - Sam never seems to relax with a bottle (so he screams once it's finished), but will happily just lie there and comfort suck for a while once he's full, so he gets a bit but not too much - that way if she is still hungry she'll take what she needs from you but it won't be as much as another whole bottle (even when he's full Sam never seems to stop with a bottle unless he's really tired).

Did any of that make sense?! I'm half asleep! x

Holldoll

I would try what Sam's Mum said. Bella comfort sucks for quite a while after she eats and then she goes to sleep. If she isn't allowed to comfort suck she freaks out and wakes up and wants to eat again.

toriaaaaTRASH

It's 3am and she has been on my boobs all night. She is so smiley and content, which makes a nice change from her screaming all night.

Mamafy

hiya hun,

ok I would feed her whenever she wants/whatever she wants. If she wants 7oz then give her 7 oz but I have abit of a theory for you.

Do you think Caitlin could have reflux? It would explain the inability to settle, crying, constant urge for feeding (they do this to sooth the acid) the sickness. If this rings bells go to your dr and tell him that you think she has reflux and tell him what she has been doing. Reflux is very nasty when not treated but does change babies when they get the medication they need

Its just a theory, I mightnt be right but anything is worth a try eh?

sam's mum

Glad she wasn't screaming all night last night ...hope you managed to get some sleep though! x

toriaaaaTRASH

She was brilliant last night, she woke up at 7pm, had a botte at 8pm, went to sleep at 9pm, woke up at 2am then slept untill 6.30am, went back to sleep at 8am and slept untill 3 this afternoon.

I hope she sleeps tonight.

vicky

thats brillaint, i hope it carries on for u hun