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Please help...5.5 month old

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smileygrapefruit · 31/12/2017 10:50

Not sure if sleep or feed related so posted in sleep too...

Please help. I'm really at my wits end 😢 3rd baby but this is the longest I've ebf for. She's 5.5 months now. She's always fed a lot! At least every 2 hours day and night apart from a magical few weeks where she did a 6 hour stretch at night (I'd do anything to have that back!!) Started weaning a couple of weeks ago and she instantly ate a full pouch of puree, she is now on 2 meals a day plus breastfeeds at 7ish, 9ish, 12, 1, 4, 6 and 7.30pm. Then a dream feed at 11ish. This was going brilliantly for a few days and she was sleeping from 11 til 5ish, quick feed and back down til morning feed. The last week (feels much longer!) she is waking before her dream feed and no amount of feeding is settling her. I gave her a full breastfeed last night and then she had 5oz of expressed and still wasn't happy. She finally went down at 2am and was up again at 3am intil 6am then up at 7am!! I've had a week of literally no sleep and I'm at breaking point. She naps well during the day 9.30-10 and 1-3.15ish. What can I do? I tried formula last night but she wasn't having it.

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Tulpenblue · 31/12/2017 16:09

Oh that’s tough. I have a hungry boy of the same age. I also just posted about a similar problem. Sounds like she’s still hungry. Have you tried a 3rd meal or increasing the size of her meals?

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