My 4 month old has been grumpy, fussy and clingy for the past few weeks, and much worse since she had her jabs a week ago.
She is easily distracted during feeds and pulls away a lot, sometimes needing to be manipulated back to the breast multiple times per feed. She doesn’t often fall asleep on the breast anymore, which was how all her naps happened a couple of weeks ago. At this point I couldn’t say whether she’s taking as much milk as usual as she is so erratic, though she’s wetting nappies and pooping OK. She’s been refusing her usual morning bottle of expressed milk. But overnight she feeds beautifully two or three times.
During the day she can be lovely and playful at times, but most of the time she is whingey, shouts if left alone briefly, cries a lot, needs near-constant attention to prevent her getting seriously upset.
She has always been a high needs baby, but never so difficult as this. I’m exhausted with trying so hard to keep her calm.
She has never been poorly, used to posset a lot but this has improved a lot so I doubt it’s reflux. She is quite windy but no more than before. She sleeps pretty well at night for about 9 hours, and naps for several hours a day in the sling or pram. She does seem sadder when tired and near bedtime, so I’m sure some of it is tiredness.
Does this sound at all familiar? I’d just like to know that it gets better from here- I’m finding it so much harder than I did a few weeks ago.
Sorry for the long post, thanks for reading.