I thought they were supposed to STOP squawking all evening by 15 weeks, not bloody well start....

[TigerFeet]

dd2 is 15 weeks old

up until recently she has been a fairly chilled out little thing, the odd loud evening but not more than once a week

just recently she has yelled all evening every evening until gone midnight

doing hungry cues but won't feed

doesn't want to be held, doesn't want to be put down

when she finally goes to sleep she's totally zonked, will sleep for a good 12 hours, semi-waking two or three times for a dreamy feed

so she sleeps all morning barring feeds

she is awake and alert after lunchtime, feeding every couple of hours or so, with perhaps the odd nap of no more than 15 minutes unless we go out in which case she'll sleep in her pram/car seat

then early evening comes and the squawking starts

am knackered, i don't get to bed until gone midnight then up early with dd1 with intermittent wakings in the night

i think maybe she gets overtired

or perhaps i need to somehow adjust her body clock so she doesn't sleep all morning

i have never been a fan of routines for small babies but would it help if i implemeted one? she does have one that she's set herself (see above) but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the household. dd1 is at school so we are bound by school run times and dd1 needing to sleep at night even if the rest of us can't

any ideas?

tia

Congratulations. You hit the 4-5 month regression to newborn hell a week early. Your dd is very advanced!

Seriously. This will pass but it is perfectly normal. It's to do with the developmental stage which makes it impossible for them to get enough food into them during their extremely stimulating day, so they are hungry and tired at night.

Try to feed in front of the tv with the light and sound down low and make it as boring as possible. Stay put for 2-3 hours and your nights and evenings should improve.

hth

Maybe some familiarity might help, but so hard at such a an early age!

Colic maybe, you breast feeding? tried some infacol?

I have 5 years between my boys and the younger just got used to fitting in with the school run. I used to snooze in the car outside school, get their earlier when DS2 had falled asleep in the car, so his nap would coincide with pick up.

I would try to walk to school too, even when not showered and knackerd as the fresh air did the baby good I think.

DS2 was a squarker too, he go nuts so I'd be making DS1's packed lunch with him under my arm and trying to read with DS1 whilst he screeched in his cot (DH was away a lot with work then!)

I wore ear plugs, just to stop the sound grating my head! I also used to just crash the minute they had both gone to be, sod the house and all the shite to be done.

Sleep is the key, good luck.

oh so she's g&t than?

already doing the boring thing

lights low and no telly

she brings up her wind well, infacol makes no difference

too far to walk to school, we usually walk the last bit but too icy atm

will be able to grab zzzzz during the day now dd1 back at school

dh away a lot too, home atm but is ill in bed

i suppose it's a textbook case of andthistooshallpass

thanks for replies