| Patrick was a really "sucky" baby when he was little and mw told me that some babies just have a constant urge to suckle (even when not feeding). I ended up giving him a dummy at 2 weeks and this helped immensely.
P used to drop off a lot, especially night feeds. I did all of the above - strip off, flick ear, blow on face, tickle. One method that worked best for me was to unlatch him and put him down - this used to wake him up and we would get going again - i sometimes had to repeat several times to get a decent amount down him. If LO is v sleepy though still best to get it checked with HV/MW/GP to reassure yourself.
The more the baby suckles though, the more milk you will produce. Its still early days and your milk production is still building - its very very normal for babies to want to feed around the clock for long periods of time at the beginning. Not easy for us poor sleep deprived mums but I can promise that it does get better and relatively quickly.
If you you have a round the clock feeder (which it sounds like you do), and if you can, just sod off everything else, cleaning, cooking etc (can your DH deal with these things or family?) and just get comfy in bed or on the sofa, bundle up with LO with the remote control, dvd box set of choice or a good book and a glass of water to hand and just concentrate on the feeding. It will be great bonding time for you and LO *thinks wistfully through rose tinted specs of many hours with LO before he learned to poke me in the eye and pull my hair*. Not everyone can do this or want to so no right or wrongs about it but it is all part of the BF journey.
It sounds like you are doing amazingly though
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