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Name: lil_dancer77 [ Original Post ] Hey everyone, i have been up for the last 4 hours with Olivia...she has had both sides of my breast plus 60mls of expressed breast milk and still wants more....but when i put her back on she falls alseep straight away so i am thinking she just wants to suck on my brest for comfrot reasons rather then she is hungry.... She just wont settle tonite..its not 6.45am and i am BUGGERED lol....i dont mind being up i love her to much to worry about being sleep deprived...Olivia has a dummy but she wont suck it for long. I was thinking about making her a bottle of formula see if she would go back to sleep but i dont want to over feed her! Got to love the learning part of being a mother...trying everything and still having no idea what to do... Anyone got any ideas of how i can tell when she is really hungry or just wanting to be soothed? My nipples are so cracked and sore i dread feeding her at the moment... ↓

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Name: spankyx0711 | Date: Jun 7th, 2007 5:07 PM

have you tried swaddling her? or holding her close and rocking her? if you think its just a comfort issue then these things might work. ↑

Name: Starbucks | Date: Jun 7th, 2007 5:07 PM

How old is she? And how much does she weigh? Most babies cannot keep hold of a binkie for long - the second it slips their extrusion reflex pops it out. My son is 4 months and still spits it out on accident sometimes. ↑

Name: lil_dancer77 | Date: Jun 7th, 2007 5:16 PM

Olivia is 12 days old... she is soooo tired she can hardly keep her eyes open but is fighting sleep!!!!!!!!!! she was 8 pound 2 at birth think she would be a little more now... this is her first really unsettled night..last few she had been sleeping 8 hours and that was with swaddling her ↑

Name: lil_dancer77 | Date: Jun 7th, 2007 5:22 PM

when i hold her close and rock her she gets frustrated i wont give her my boob! ↑

Name: Starbucks | Date: Jun 7th, 2007 6:14 PM

I don't think you need to worry about feeding her too much - at 12 days old she can't over-eat... and if she did she'd just puke and then eat again, lol. Their tummies are only so big. If she looks like she might take a bottle than give it to her. At 12 days though you are really lucky if you're not awake every 2 1/2 hours. So if she's sleeping 8 sometimes than I wouldn't be jinxing it! Try putting the binkie in her mouth and then holding it in - or holding her against you - so she can't spit it out. She may not be spitting it out on purpose. ↑

Name: lil_dancer77 | Date: Jun 7th, 2007 6:17 PM

thank you for your input! I just got her to sleep! Finally!...and now im over being tired so i dont want to go back to bed! ↑

Name: veronim | Date: Jun 7th, 2007 6:19 PM

my parents always used to put me in the car and start the engine when I would not sleep - It would send me straight to sleep ↑

Name: veronim | Date: Jun 7th, 2007 6:22 PM

you gave birth in the mater? how were they ↑