Do all babies cluster feed, or did you get an outlier?
Not exact matches
However, I don't see a problem with following the
baby's lead on this for
cluster feeding.
The
Baby Whisperer says the dreamfeed is superior to the
cluster feeding if you can only
do one, so I would shoot for that.
Do others find that alternating solids and formula / breast milk is the best bet (essentially she ends up eating every 2 hours...) or that
clustering the solids and
baby food together is better?
My
baby slept through the night at 9 weeks and we
did cluster feeding (4 and then 6 pm) until she was around 4 months I think.
I
did cluster feeding in the evenings for all three of my
babies due to a combination of hunger and witching hour (refusal to sleep with lots of crying).
It's very normal for newborn
babies to still be
cluster feeding at this point, and it's normal for new mums to wonder if that means they don't have enough milk supply.
Question about
cluster feeding... when you are
cluster feeding in the evening,
do you put the
baby down for a nap in between feedings or just feed the
baby keep
baby awake and then feed again before the
baby goes to sleep?
Growth spurts will typically last 2 - 3 days, but don't be surprised if they last for up to a week — and
baby continues to
cluster feed for that long, too.
You basically have to
do all the work for them, and unless you want to be holding
baby every time you nurse (sometimes for hours at a time during those
cluster feedings!)
The second day relentless crying,
cluster feeding etc I asked midwives constantly and was always answered in the same way (almost demeaning), that
babies do this and keep trying.
There are so many battles you might feel like you need to «win» when it comes to breastfeeding (or not breastfeeding)-- Should you
do it at all, and for how long, and how often, and what if your
baby won't latch, or has a tongue tie, or you get mastitis, or clogged ducts, or
cluster feeding is killing you?
It replicates what
babies do when they are «
cluster feeding» which is when
baby is on and off the breast often so as to signal to your body to increase supply.
Do babies «
cluster feed» before the onset of copious milk production during the first few days of life?
Bottle - feeding
babies do not
cluster feed during this time either.
How
do cluster feedings and snacks throughout the day and night impact your
baby's gums and teeth?
As a single mother you don't have another person there to hold the
baby for you when you need to have a shower, or to bring you a drink or a meal when you are marooned for hours on the sofa
cluster feeding in the evenings.
Try not to worry, if the
baby feels like it feeds constantly it doesn't mean they aren't getting enough it's called
cluster feeding and is the
babies way of making your body produce what it needs.
Your
baby may begin to wake more frequently at night for a feeding and / or may begin to eat non-stop (
cluster feed) as she once
did as a newborn.
, your
baby has
done cluster feeding.
Your
baby may also want to
do more
cluster feeding with growth spurts or in times when he or she is more fussy or irritable, such as with teething or minor sicknesses.
ROSE DEVIGNE - JACKIEWICZ: If it is truly
cluster feed and the
babies are
doing great as far as weight gain, then no,
babies don't need a bottle.
Introducing a bottle too early can potentially interfere with the
baby fully establishing breastfeeding.That's not to say if a mom says «I'm at my wit's end,» but
babies during
cluster feeds really don't need that bottle in the evening time.
We just suspect what many of the reasons are, and some feel like it's the
baby's way, especially during that evening time, and that is the most common time when
babies do cluster feed because it's their awake time.
My
babies are a little bit different than what I'm hearing here in the studio, because I believe they
cluster feed but they typically
do it in the morning before their naps.
Then I ask moms, when
does the
baby seem to want to
do these
cluster feeds?
Your developing
baby doesn't look like a
baby yet, but cells have
clustered in places where your
baby's heart and circulatory system will grow as well as where lungs, urinary tract, intestines, brain and entire nervous system will grow.
Therefore, if you don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night by a hungry
baby, then you need to encourage
cluster feeding.
Cluster feeding can make a seasoned mother fret about all the things she can't
do because she has to sit down with the
baby until the
baby decides that she has had enough.
When it comes to bedtime I
do more
cluster feedings, which means you feed the
baby a little bit closer together preparing for night than you would during the day.
To answer your question as to how long you should
cluster feed at night,
do it as long as your
baby needs.
Your
baby may begin to wake more frequently at night for a feeding and / or may being to eat non-stop (
cluster feed) as she once
did as a newborn.
MELANIE SILVERMAN: Well, this happened to me and it was shocking when it happened with my second one and I kind of had to flip through my books and figure out what was going on, but it's called
cluster feeding and what is happening here is, and again this is what is so valuable about Pacify, I think, getting that immediate help like what am I
doing wrong, it is actually a signal that your
baby needs more milk and it's growing.
It is possible that she
did produce plenty of milk, she just happened to have a
baby who was going through a period of
cluster - feeding.
I've already written a little about
cluster feeding in my posts about nursing a newborn
baby and when
does breastfeeding get easier.
I just had my third
baby and I feel so stressed I forgot what
cluster feeding was like but this time I don't have any adults at home to take the other ones out.
In a manner of speaking, globular
clusters appear capable of «adopting»
baby stars — or at least the material with which to form new stars — rather than creating more «biological» children as parents in a human family might choose to
do.