Am I overthinking this
I exclusively pumped for the first two months and baby finally latched at 8 weeks. Woo! Now he is 11 weeks and I feel like I’m getting into a groove w nursing (because F the pump) but I also don’t know if I’m doing it right? Can I mess this up? For example:
I’m super engorged in the morning because he is a good sleeper so he only wants to feed from one side before feeling content. As the day progresses I feel like he needs both boobs to feel content. Is that normal? Same thing w duration… morning is like a 10 min feed and last feed of the day is like an hour…. Is he just working harder to get all the milk out? My boobs are so deflated at that last feed how do I know there’s any milk in there?
He will now take a bottle with others but not me. I would assume that’s normal too?
Should I expect days of cluster feeding at this stage or no? How does nursing change as they continue to get older…. I.e when they have teeth (ahhhh!!)
Is my milk regulated now?
When he’s tired sometimes I just put him on the boob now rather than having to aggressively rock him for 20 min. Is this creating a bad habit because it’s sooo amazing right now. I also feel like I’m paranoid about him being hungry if it’s almost been 2 hours
I am beyond grateful I’m able to breastfeed (with my first I had to exclusively pump and got burned out real fast) and now that I’m a SAHM it makes even more sense that I don’t have to worry about pumping for work but I feel like such a dummy and it’s definitely weird no longer knowing how much he’s getting!