Does your baby want to feed all day and all night?
Do you feed your little one and put them down, only to look over at your baby with their mouth wide open like you haven't fed them at all? Perhaps your little one is cluster feeding.
This week on Parents You’ve Got This – The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast we welcome back our Lactation Expert and IBCLC Rowena Gray to discuss cluster feeding – what is, why your baby does it and how to get through it.
We discuss:
- What cluster feeding is
- What age babies typically cluster feed
- How cluster feeding affects your milk supply
- How you know if your baby is cluster feeding or if they are comfort sucking
- If you are constantly feeding your baby it can be exhausting. Rowena shares her top tips to help a tired Mama
- If cluster feeding causes nipple damage or sore breasts and Rowena’s tips if this happens
- What age babies typically stop cluster feeding
- If growth spurts coincide with cluster feeding
- As a baby gets older the milk supply stabilises, how long does it take for cluster feeding to increase a woman's supply
- Rowena shares her advice around when a baby stops cluster feeding and reduces their milk intake, how breasts and milk supply responds
- Rowena’s tips for Mastitis
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