How to break a 2hr sleeping/feeding pattern in my 7 wk old?

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My EBF DD has started waking up every 2 hours in the night.

The nights start well: I put her to bed between 19.00 and 20.00 in her own room and she sleeps through till 1.00/2.00. I normally give her a dream feed before I go to sleep (around 22.00/23.00).

After that she seems to wake every couple of hours - around 3.00, then around 5.00. I don't think she is very hungry as she will generally not feed for very long, but she wakes crying for a feed.

How do I break this pattern and reduce the number of times she wakes in the night and get her to sleep later in the morning?

How would I go about trying to settle her without feeding when she wakes up at 3.00?

Any advice welcome please!

Thanks

My DS is now 4.5mo and I seem to remember going through several cycles like this. My initial reaction is to say that it's probably normal and it'll change in a few days again anyway but you could try just rocking her when she wakes if you don't think it's hunger. I seem to remember we did that at one point when I also had the feeling that he wasn't really hungry.

Good luck and I hope you get some more sleep soon :)

she is probably going through the 6 week growth spurt and is building up your supply. She will probably settle down in a week or so - mine all did this.

3littlefrogs is right it could well be a growth spurt. How is she feeding in the day? Could you feed her more regularly and get loads of calories in her for the night! I'd also suggest a consistent bed time as well and nighttime routine so she definitely gets the whole night/day thing. Buy they do change so quickly and by next week her sleeping pattern could have changed completely!

At 7 weeks I'm afraid that this is what they do - it's nonuse trying to settle her without feeding - she still has a tiny stomach and needs little snd often.

Go with it, Try to sleep when she sleeps and remember that in the blink of an eye she;ll be a hulking teenager that you can't get out of bed in the morning!

no use, sorry. Not nonuse!

Agree with Seeker, its just what they do. at 7 weeks she is tiny, her tummy is tiny and she needs feeding often.

How often does she feed during the day?

Also agree with seeker and JJJ - she is 7 weeks old. Far too young to be talking about breaking her of anything.

Her tummy will be tiny, and at this stage she just wants her Mummy.

Sleeping from 7pm until 1am is 6 hours, which is a long time for a 7 week old. We used to have DS awake with us in the evening, and then he would go to bed when we did at 11pm or so - and then I was able to sleep when he had his longest stretch of sleep, which was about 3-4 hours at that age. Could you do that so that you are able to take advantage and sleep when she is sleeping?

Thanks - will keep pushing through and enjoy the nights while they last...!

Mine was exactly the same - 2 hourly through the day, longest sleep after bedtime at 7/8ish, then 2 hourly through the early hours. By 8 weeks he was sleeping 7pm-3am, then waking at 5am and 7am. It didn't last long though! By 18 weeks 8 hour sleeps were a thing of the past and we didn't get back to that until he was well onto solids.