Wanted to post here rather than the feeding sections as feel I may get a more balanced response and I've just been let down by a breastfeeding group.
Dd3 is 12 weeks old and exclusively breastfed. She was a nightmare for the 6 weeks, to the point of me trying to swap to bottles but she refused. Things got gradually better from about 6 weeks and for the last 2 weeks we had really cracked it. Pretty much 3 hourly feeds with a 6-8 hour chunk of sleep at night. I was soooooo glad I persevered!!! Until...for the last 4 days she has fed every hour (max 2 hours) day and night. I asked at a breastfeeding group about the 12 week growth spurt and all the advice I got was it's totally normal, you were lucky she was going so long between feeds before, it could last weeks and she may not settle back in to the old routine. I went for support and advice and instead I got made to feel like a bad mum for not wanting to carry on like this and left feeling 1000 times worse!
Why is feeding every hour accepted as totally normal?! When I tell my friends who have kids they are shocked and wonder how I'm coping! I have two other young dc and work fulltime (with baby). Aibu to think it shouldn't be this hard and my concerns/stress shouldn't be dismissed with "it's normal"?