4 mo waking for 3/4 hours in middle of night - any suggestions?

[milki]

DD has regularly been going to bed around 9pm and waking for feeds at around 12, 2, 4 and up at 6'ish. For the last 4 nights she has settled fine, woken for first feed and gone straight back to sleep but not settled after 2am'ish feed and been awake for several hours - v v tiring! Have an active 2 yr old as well so am really struggling during the day. Anyone got any ideas? Should she still be feeding this much at night anyway, even eithout the wakeful few hours? She still feeds every 2-3 hours in the day - I have no idea what she weights but seems fine weight wise to me, is growing out of clothes etc. She is quite pukey, could that be related? EBF.

Any help gratefully received!

M

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[Milco]

Hello Milki

You have my sympathies, that sounds knackering. I'm no expert, but I had two thoughts:

(1) How much does your DD nap in the day -how much sleep does she have overall? Do you think she is getting enough, but just too much of it in the day - has her sleep pattern in the day changed at all recently?

(2) She does seem to be feeding a lot. From what I've read on here, this seems pretty common, even at 4 months, and there are lots of people on here who will say "she's still small etc, so needs to feed so often" but in my opinion (and limited experience, I have a 4 month old DS, but who was born 10 weeks early, so more like 2 months really), babies that old can physically go longer, but only if they get enough food per feed and are in the habit. Have you tried settling her with anything other than milk when she wakes? Does she take much food at each of the early hours feeds (from what you can tell)?

Sorry - more questions than answers but hoped it might be of some help. At least might bump your thread up the list. Very best of luck - I know from experience how shattering it can be, and that's without the 2 year old.