When does evening fussiness and cluster feeding stop?

[MadrigalElectromotive]

DD is 16 weeks and is still very fussy in the evenings. She needs to be held/bf from about 6pm-10.30pm when she'll usually finally drop off. She is exclusively breastfed. I was expecting the evenings to have got easier by now. She is happy and settled in general, and a reasonable sleeper, but I find the evenings such hard work!

DD is 14 weeks (we're in the same June antenatal group). I'd say evenings have only just started to get less fraught and earlier bedtimes are beginning. 3 weeks ago she was going down at 11. Now it's about 9. Last night was 8:30.

Ah, so perhaps the end is in sight! I was expecting cluster feeding but everyone said it would end by 3 months. Hopefully she'll start going to sleep a bit earlier soon.

My 16 week old is still doing a shortish cluster feeding session from about 6-8.30 pm. It's only in the last week or two that it's reliably become that kind of time. It's a pain and I'd like my evenings again (DS1 spoiled me by dropping the cluster feeds and adopting a 3 month bedtime at 3 months). Fingers crossed it improves for you soon!