How Long Do Your Infants Take to Eat?

[midaycare]

Do you think it could maybe be just mom wanting to extend the close bonding time that nursing provides her?

Maybe because she is a working mom and feeling guilty she is trying to train baby to eat slowly so she can spend the time with him?

This may be one reason, but if I had to use my best guess...she just got her nursing degree and has become super healthy/obsessed. This mom is the one who was frantic about baby eating more than a few ounces at daycare. Worried dcb would start expecting more from the breast.

I think she's spending too much time on breastfeeding mom forums, as well as using her nursing knowledge to freak herself out.

She does work, but it's 2-4 days a week, and 2 of those are weekend days, when baby is with dad. She spends a good amount of time with baby.

All that said, I was crazy DS'S first year. So I'm not judging

[Pestle]

I don't remember nursing taking 20 minutes when I was breastfeeding, but then again, I had an oversupply issue for the first 6 months or so. Very heavy flow.

I have a child who started care at 3 months and this is the system we use each day:

-A couple of minutes chilling after arrival
-Tummy time until he fusses
-Change diaper
-Into the Ergo so he can nap (AP mom--he won't sleep in a crib for me)
-A bottle when he wakes up

Before we got on that routine, feedings took forever and he was spending half the day fussy because he wanted the comfort of a bottle nipple in his mouth (he uses a pacifier at home but won't take one with me). Now that I get him tired out and then have him sleep for a while, he wakes up with an appetite, chugs through his bottle, and is cheerful and ready to play until he's actually, genuinely hungry again.