HELP! DS's feeding and sleep habits gone mad!!

[Holymoly321]

DS is 9 weeks old, weighs 13lbs and at the moment has a really horrible cold. He had his first set of jabs last week. Thing is, his normal pattern of eating and sleeping has gone out the window and I don't know what the problem is - he seems hungry all the time at the moment - surely he can't be ready for solid food at this early age! His normal pattern was something like this
7am - 6oz bottle
9am - nap
11am- 6oz bottle
12-2pm sleep
2pm - 6oz bottle
6pm - 6 oz bottle
7-11pm sleep
11 - 6oz bottle
sleep till 3am
3am - 3oz bottle then back to sleep until around 6am.
BUT - now he seems to want each bottle earlier and earlier and has been wide awake at the 3am feed - so wide awake that he's smiling, kicking the crib so much it's shaking and generally it's taking almost two hours to get him back to sleep! Grrrr! Last night he had a 6oz bottle of 'hungrier baby' formula (had to try something!) at 11pm then woke up at 2pm!!!!! Argh!! Could this be due to his cold or could he want more food like baby rice? Sorry for long post but this is driving me crazy!!!!!

Smiling - this is normal behaviour for a nine week old baby....he may well be hungrier, just because appetite is like that, and need more cuddles/comfort/sucking because he has a cold. Most babies of this age wake through the night. His pattern before was unusual, I would say

Baby rice at nine weeks is not healthy, and risks overloading your baby's kidneys.

Think about his new pattern as a variation - and you would respond to his needs just as you would at any other time. It's not designed to drive you crazy!