My DD1 is now six weeks and two days and - having found her fairly easy to understand and comfort for the first four weeks - I now feel like everything is falling apart. She refuses to feed at pretty much any time apart from when she is sleepy in the morning but cries with hunger, stays awake for 17 hour stretches during which she wants to be walked around and rocked, sleeps for a maximum two hour stretch at night and sometimes only half an hour.
I have heard talk of the difficult six week mark - but what is it exactly? Sometimes it seems to refer to a growth spurt, sometimes feeding, sometime sthe exhaustion of the parents, none of which in isolation seem to explain my baby's sudden grouchiness... I realise that lots of babies are like this from the beginning, and so we are lucky that she was not, but it's horrible to see my happy baby so upset all the time and I can't help but feel it is something or things I have done that have really upset her... But what?