He's eating too much?

[Young_Mommy89]

My son is 5wks old & he just eats & eats & eats. I've started using formula as well as breastfeeding to give myself a break. It doesn't matter if he nurses for 10mins or nurses for an hour 30 mins later he's hungry again. I even broke down & put a little cereal in his formula...still doesn't matter(does help his acid reflux though) Even when he doesn't spit up he's hungry all the time. Is he just growing or is something wrong with him?

[gdiamante]

Quoting Young_Mommy89:

I don't want to switch to formula, I do not mind using it on occasion just bcuz right now I can only NIP while sitting down. Its very inconvienient, it makes trips to town extra long. I found someone willing to sell me a moby wrap for $15, now I just have to get $15. I'm selling my maternity clothes to get money.

Good luck!

I have an almost 4yo who is going through a whiney, attitude stage. She's driving me batty lol

Heh heh...that will teach you to go have addtional children, huh? **grin** Toddlers and preschoolers are pretty darned self-absorbed.

 Me & SO have been through a lot of issues & his main complaint was that I didn't clean,

The sexiest man on earth wields a MOP. Teach him to do so. He can damn well do the cleaning; no mercy unless he works in a field where he has people's LIVES in their hands daily.

No one worth being had "World's Greatest Housekeeper" on her tombstone, either.

I just don't want to mess up this new groove I've found with cleaning. It makes him happy & I can tell it makes our relationship easier as far as fights. I get lazy easily lol right now is the easiest going day I've had so far but that's bcuz I'm still hurting from my bc insert so SO has made breakfast & is mainly taking care of dd & ds.

I don't give formula all day long, normally he gets 1-3 formula bottles in a day, if he gets any at all. 

That little can be enough to cause you your problems. Sit down with SO and ask him which is more important: A clean home or being able to feed your child? From the financial challenges you describe, formula would cost more than it's worth.

Make up a chore chart. Even the four year old can help with that, by swepping a little or learning to sort clothes for laundry. EVERYONE above the age of four pitches in! That includes SO. 

[mostlymaydays]

If he's still projectile vomiting the formula as well, especially with rice cereal in the bottle, I'd suspect the dairy. Many babies with dairy issues also have soy intolerances and the alternative, elemental formulas, cost a fortune.

My dh is gone about half the year, sometimes in Japan or South Africa, sometimes in the US, but gone is gone. Shuttling 4 kids to school and sports alone sucks. But the housework is low on our priority list. Typically for the few first months after a birth, the baby is "my job" and dh takes care of the basics for the other kids. My house is "messy" but it's never dirty. My kids won't love me anymore if I vacuum the upstairs hallway. If my dh has the time to complain about a mess than he has the time to help clean the mess. Or we can live with it *half cleaned* and go to the zoo instead,which is how we cooperatively manage now.

More than once I have taken my wool pashminas and knotted the ends to make a sling. In cultures where babies are commonly slung, they usually just tie a swath a fabric into a sling, no rings, no buckles, no sewing.

Quoting Young_Mommy89:

I'm on paraguard.



So how do you explain him spitting up formula as well? And yes I've had OAL but even when it was BAD he didn't get gas & wasn't like this at all.



That's easier said than done here. I am basically a single mother most of the time, as my SO works out of town & is sometimes gone an entire week or more. I HAVE to keep the houseclean, like seriously, I now have an uncontrolable urge to clean & when it hits me I can NOT sit still. I went from hardly ever cleaning & when I did it wasn't much, to changing sheets, making all beds, vaccuming, sweeping, mopping, washing dishes, cleaning stove, counters(bathroom & kitchen), wiping down furiture, keeping every single thing in its place, moving around rooms, just all kinds of stuff DAILY. And I don't want to not clean I'm scared I will go back to my lazy habits.



Someone suggested staying in bed with him, its simply not an option, I've tried "camping out" on the couch, since there's tv in there, but I can never be still long.



Someone else mentioned a sling, you have to have money for those. We don't have spare money for something like that right now.

Quoting tabi_cat1023:

What birth control did you start?





I dont think your baby has reflux at all. I think you have a forceful letdown and an oversupply. This causes baby to eat too fast and get more foremilk. Foremilk had higher lactose/sugar levels this causes stomach aches. Eatting fast causes gas again causing stomach aches. Nursing is comforting so baby nurses alot. This makes supply higher and makes matters worse.





Give it three days for me. I want you to block feed. Do all feeds for four hours on one side.....then switch to four hours on the other side. No pumping, no bottles, no formula, no cereal.

[fortressmom]

Growth spurt time!!  Ditch the formula.  It totally messes up your supply which starts a vicious cycle with a growth spurt going on.  When he gets your supply back up to where he needs it the feeds will taper back down.