Hi all
my 22 wk old DD has just been through a delightful settled phase, where sleep was beginning to be predictable, she was only waking twice a night and was happy and content most of the day, would play on her play gym and sit in her chair to watch what I was upto..
We've just got back from a week camping, where bed time went a bit askew and there were people around to hold/play with her all the time. On the way home we stayed with friends and I put her down on the big bed upstairs. She managed to get to the edge of the bed and fell off. I know I shouldn't have left her, but she had really only rolled over once before that and I did put her right in the middle of the bed. Anyway, she fell onto the thickly carpeted floor and she seemed totally fine afterwards, though of course she had a cry. I didn't take her to the doctors.
Since we have been home she has been acting all out of character. She screams in the day if I try to put her down at all, or even to sit down with her on my lap or next to me. She is only happy if she is being carried around facing outwards (not in the sling, which she used to love). She is waking every 1.5/2 hours through the night. She is feeding voraciously, both boobs when previously she would have only taken one, but she gets herself into a right state first and flings herself back screaming when I try to feed her. I have been trying to catch her before she gets upset, but she is so unpredictable with feeding at the moment that it is difficult. She won't sleep in her cot, only in the car seat or sitting on my lap, and whereas I used to be able to transfer her to bed/the sofa etc once she was asleep, she will now wake and scream her head off. The crying is genuine crying, with real tears.
Is this a phase? Could she just be going through a growth spurt? Or is she hungry- should I be thinking about introducing some baby rice (don't really want to do this as wanted to do BLW when the time comes and why start early if not necessary, but she will only feed when she will feed and I don't see how I can increase her milk feeds)? Or, and this is my big fear, has she hurt herself in some way and I have not sorted it out?