Hi ladies. I seem to be on here a lot lately asking for advise! Hope to repay the favour to new moms when my LO is older :-)
My little girl has just turned 16 weeks. She has always been a great sleeper at night; we feed her about 7pm and she will sleep through to 7am. She does wake up but has always been able to get herself back off.
The struggle has always been the last feed. She is tired and hungry but is constantly rejecting the bottle. We eventually get about 100ml down her but it's a real battle. I think she is tired and so thought perhaps bringing her bed time routine forward (she has a bath about 6:30 currently) would help but that has proved impossible because of her feeding schedule.
Lately though she has started to cry when she goes for a nap and when I put her down at night.
Here is our typical day:
Wakes for feed around 7/7:30 am. Feed and then goes down for a nap at about 8/8:30 am.
Wake about 9:30/10 am
Play until 10:30/11.
Feed about 10:30/11
Then she we play until around 12:30/13:00, depending on what we are doing. She will fall asleep in the car or pram earlier.
Feed about 13:30
Play or we are out and about until about 16:00 when she will nap again. Feed at 4:30. Then play, cuddles, bath and bed at around 7pm.
She will only nap for 30 mins in the day after the first sleep but she does sleep 12 hours at night. She has about 180-200ml each feed apart from bed time.
Just wondering what your thoughts are. She had her jabs 3 days ago and the bed time crying started that night, she has cried before the day time naps for a few weeks.
Do you think it's the jabs? Teething? Could it be that I am not putting her to sleep early enough in the day so she is over tired? Is it the 4 month regression that I hear about? How would you advise I help her? Thanks ladies!