DD is 11 weeks and EBF. She has never been a good sleeper however having introduced a bottle of expressed breast milk (after feeding all evening) before I went to bed she would usually have a 3 to 4 hour sleep followed by a 2 hour sleep then around 1hr30 which I could cope with. However for the past two weeks she has gone down to only sleeping in 2hr or 1hr30 slots (sometimes less) and feeding all night. I have started co-sleeping with her to make it easier for myself and last night she seemed to eat constantly. I have stopped giving her the expressed milk at night as it doesn't seem to make any difference which makes me think that this isn't really a food issue. She just seems to want to eat all the time. She does appear to be going through a growth spurt however I can't believe that it would have lasted this long. In the day she can go for 2/3 hours between feeds and is generally pretty content. Still poos 5/6 times in 24 hours. I have tried to make sure that she is eating more in the day, giving her bottles of expressed breast milk but this made no difference. I got her into a bed/bath routine when she was 3 weeks old, however had to give it up because in the evenings it's like she has never eaten enough so I can't put her down! She is quite a big baby, 80th centile.
I had thought that she was at the breast for so long because she has a small tt however from bottle feeding her I can see that she is actually hungry, for example I left her with DP this week for the evening and from 7pm-11.30pm she drank 3 5oz bottles of milk, went down at midnight and woke up every 1hr30mins to feed. I have tried not feeding her when she wakes up but she just gets really upset.
I know that everything is pretty much normal with a breast fed baby, but has anyone had this and will it stop at some point? I really don't want to supplement with formula but I'm reaching the end of my tether.
Thanks!