PLEASE someone tell me this is temporary. My DD (20 weeks old) has two new teeth and has just got over a nasty viral gastric thing which had both of us hurling for England.
During the last week we both basically took to my bed and nursed each other better (well I nursed her, she just lapped it up and farted a lot) but I digress.
Now I've started trying to get her back into her cot and she did sleep in her cot last night, well actually she didn't sleep, she went down at 7:30, woke again at 8:00 got her back to sleep, fed her at 10pm (dreamfeed), then up at midnight, five minutes of milk and then back to sleep but then the little sod woke up at 2am really upset, and I finally gave up trying to settle her at 3am and fed her and she slept till about 6ish, at which point I took her back to bed with me and she fed and slept till 7:30.
She doesn't seem to be going more than a couple of hours between feeds and is really screamy (never has been before, she's always been a placid little soul).
She used to do, 10pm till 5am on a regular basis (for about three weeks) and I thought hurrah we've cracked this, the constant revising from baby books like we have 'A Level Baby' exams coming up has paid off, but then things changed.
Please someone tell me this is normal, I'm a first time mum and very very tired. I know rationally she's not doing this deliberately and when she wakes up her tummy is grumbling away audibly so I know she is really hungry not just being a habit muncher (or do I? Actually I do think she comfort feeds but I don't really know a baby who doesn't if they have the opportunity).
Help!