My 1 month old baby has a period where she continuously wants to feed I.e. she will ask for feed in 20-30 mins. The problem is that after 3-4 hours of such feeding she gets agitated as the flow of milk isn’t there. When I express through hand at that time some milk comes but it’s very less. Is this normal? What should I do?

1 Answer

ExpertDr. Minal AcharyaNutritionist1 Year ago

A. dear mum such cluster feeding does happen when baby is feeding more frequently during certain times of the day at one time feed from only one breast do not switch breast so that baby receives fat rich hindmilk which will keep baby full for longer

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