Breastfed Newborn Question

My first daughter was a good night sleeper from birth. She'd feed at 8pm, 10.30pm, 3.30am and 7am right from birth.

Ashley (11days old) feeds 2 hourly around the clock. She clusters in the evenings, is wakeful from 11pm to 12am and then wakes at 1.30, 3.30, 5.30, 7.30, 9.30....etc. (in fact, she woke every 1 hour and 50mins exactly last night) . She continues to feed roughly every 2 hours during the day too, occassionally going 3 hours. She feeds extremely well at every feed, sucking and swallowing for 10mins on each side very effectively.

She doesn't like her own bed at night so it takes me about 1 hour from the time she wakes until she is back asleep which leaves me just under an hour to sleep between each feed.

Is this 2 hourly business likely to last long?

Spencer fed 2 hourly during the day until he went on solids and he fed 3 hourly at night until 2 months, then went 4 hourly then down to one feed at night. As a bonus though he did start sleeping through at 4 months.

Kyle has only just started doing long sleeps, until recently he was feeding 2.5-3.5 hourly day and night, I was very very tired and still haven't caught up yet.

Hopefully your little girl improves a bit quicker than that. I have heard that putting a jersey that smells like you in the cot can help with them sleeping in it.

Spencer was actually quite good at sitting in the lounge playing whilst I fed and also with it being summer I would sometimes feed outside whilst he played in his sandpit. Luckily for me Kyle is one of those super fast 5 minute feeders (or was till he got to the distractable age). I did however always have a dvd in the player ready and some snacks on hand to dish out just in case.

That's a great weight gain

I'm sure its probably normal but can't say how long it will go on .... Morgan has only been up once in the night from day 3 and is now sleeping 9 hours straight. And Jake only fed like that when he went into heart failure (not saying that is happening for you!!) but in hospital the nurses did manage to get him to change his frequent feeding, by basically making him wait 3 hours (rocking, and trying to keep him asleep) and after 2x 3 hourly feeds he fed 3 hourly on the dot! So if it doesn't bother you I'm sure its fine .... but if you want to stretch it out, just pick a day when you have help and try to make her last longer for a couple of feeds. That way she will take more cos shes hungrier, so will go longer. If you can do it with a really sick bub I'm sure it will work with a healthy one!

After surgery Jake was still at his birth weight at 7 weeks, so fed 2-3hourly day and night but it got better after a few weeks, and he slept thru at 12 weeks.