4.5 month old feeds all night not in day

[lolalotta]

Help! My exclusively BF 4 1/2 month old DD has started feeding all night and doesn't bother much in the day! I'm not sure how to go about fixing it! She goes to bed at 6.00pm and last night between 10.00pm and 7.00am she was up 5 times feeding and then hasn't fed at all this morning and fed for about 3 minutes at lunch time and a few more minutes now at 2.00pm. I really need advice on how to sort this as gently as possible. I have a 4 year old too, so no opportunities to catch up on sleep in the day! Please any tips very welcome. I posted this in sleep too...

Hopeful bump for the teatime crowd...

It's called 'reverse cycling' and there's lots online if you Google it. This page from kellymom is the first hit: kellymom.com/bf/normal/reverse-cycling/

Could it be distractions during the day feeds, ie everything else is more interesting?
kellymom.com/parenting/parenting-faq/distractible-baby/

My nearly 4 month old finds it difficult to concentrate on feeding during the day - everything else is too interesting.

We have found that sitting him up to feed (supporting his head with one hand) helps because he can still look around! Explanation below:
www.breastfeeding-babies.com/saddle-position.html

My 5.5 month old is still doing it and I haven't been able to fix if. Everything distracts her, she'll find something more interesting than the boob in a dark, empty room, I swear.
As a result she wakes gazilion times and I am a walking zombie :(

Thanks so much for the links, I will have a read! I don't think it is so much distractions (though she does love to pull off the grin at me) in the day, I think it has got to the point where she is feeding sooooo much at night she simply isn't hungry in the day. I'm not sure how to break the cycle...

try to give her less feeds at night. lenthen out the space of feeds at night. it might be tough first day or two, but hopefully she will be hungry in morning to eat. for example....if she wakes dont feed her. try to settle her back to bed. if after 30 mins she doesnt settle, feed her or if she does setlle but wakes again, feed her on second waking and so on. this way she hopefully has less feeds at night and can catch up in the morning/ good luck!

Thank you Mama, she was still up a lot last night but I managed to shorten a few if the feeds to just a minute and settled her back off once by just stroking her head so fingers crossed for done improvement over the next few nights with some perseverance from my end and hopefully she will be hungrier today too!

Am having the exact same prob...
Thought yesterday I had cracked it as got her to stick to good, big regular day time feeds - but last night was just as bad as ever, every 90 mins feeding! I don't know where she puts it all like a bottomless pit!