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[quote=Anonymous]OP it has been a few years since my breastfeeding days, but what you describe sounds like a growth spurt.   THey usually happen a 2-3 weeks, 5-6 weeks, 2-3 months and 5-6 months.   It's about 3 days of non-stop, every hour and a half feeds until you feel like your tits are going to fall off... followed by (at day 4 of the growth spurt) a baby who nurses and then falls asleep for 4-5 hours and you freak out saying "Why isn't he waking up to nurse?!"

How can you tell things are OK?   My rough guide -- (of course after being sure your baby is gaining well, urinating etc) --

-- when the baby cries, are you sure it is for food?   Is he making the "rooting" signals with his mouth?

-- Do you get the sense that the baby is more or less full after he nurses, at least for a little while?

-- Do the "hungry times" come around late afternoon; evening?   That's when your body is probably making the least milk.   Baby might seem inconsolable at these times.   It is important to just keep putting him to the breast though, that's what helps your body step up production.   3 days should do it.   I would give the baby to my husband if it had only been an hour since his last feed, and ask him to take the baby away, out, do anything to distract him for another half hour or so to give my body a little more time to make some more milk!

-- try to just nurse with one breast at a time.   If the last nursing was on the left breast, and it has been less than 3 hours between feeds, have the baby start on that side again first for a few minutes.   Then switch to the right breast for the full feed.

If this IS a growth spurt, you should start feeling like you are making more milk to satisfy your baby today or tomorrow.

No, there's noting wrong with formula.   But if you give it, you interrupt this cycle, is all.  Just one feed won't do much to interrupt it, but one formula feed a day will.   Hang in there![/quote]

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