Slow feeding and snacking at 5 weeks
Hi! Looking for advice and successful stories to boost me along.
My baby is 5 1/2 weeks old and a very slow eater still. When I google it, I see that baby should be taking a total of 20 to 30 minutes total to feed. During the day I find that she can feed for an hour or she will just snack and then be hungry again in an hour meaning that I spend my entire day feeding her and hardly ever putting her down. She had her tongue tie revised at two weeks old due to a painful latch. I do find she sometimes still clicks and falls asleep at the breast. I have tried compressions, stripping her down to her diaper and putting her down and picking her back up when she starts to seem sleepy. We switch breasts periodically and still it doesn’t seem like she gets a full feed. I’ve spoke to two different lactation consultants and having consider considering bringing another one in or doing a follow up. This has been going on now for a week with maybe one good day in there. She just seems like a really inefficient feeder. At night it’s not as bad. I can get her up and down in an hour, and she gives long stretches to sleep but you’re cluster feed like crazy through her witching hour in order to get to that point.
Does anyone have any tips and tricks on how to improve her efficiency? Has anyone else gone through this with their baby is just a very slow eater? Does it improve? If so, when did it improve? I need to know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and I’ll have a little bit of a life again eventually lol.