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Just want to say I’m in a very similar position with my almost 7 week old so I can sympathise. Literally just wants boob all evening. When my husband was giving him a formula bottle in the evening in the past (before he went back to work) my supply adjusted pretty fast and if I felt a bit engorged then I’d pump for 10 mins. You’d probably have to keep the evening bottle pretty consistent to make things easier in terms of your supply. We use kendamil goat as apparently goat milk is the closest to breast.
Agree with first commenter; I tried a dummy and would not feed again until at least 2 hour mark (now it’s 2.5 sometimes) and she’s ok in that time between.
He does use a dummy well in the day but in the evenings it just doesn’t seem to work when he is mooching, he spits it out and cries so I feel like I’m ignoring his hunger cues and I get really paranoid about doing that! I don’t know if maybe I could be a bit more persistent with the dummy! I was looking at kendamil goat milk too thank you!
All newborns are usually extra fussy in that evening window! They just won’t sleep, or go in and out of sleep. I say stay persistent. As long as they’ve had their bed time feed, wait at least 2 hours. That’s what I do
Could he be just comfort feeding on you? My little girl started doing it so I tried a dummy instead when I knew she'd had enough and it really helped. It's been a week now and she's off the dummy and has gone back to a normal feeding routine x