3 month old cluster feeding at 4am!

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The books never mentioned this and my other DS certainly didn’t do this!

My 13 week old is EBF and up until last week was only waking once or twice a night to feed and feeds every 2h or so during the day. He has begun cluster feeding at 4am and won’t be put down or stop feeding until around 7am and I’m exhausted!

I’ve started doing safe co-sleeping and feeding him lying down to be as safe as I can with him.

Has anyone got any experience with this? Please tell me it’s a short lived phase! I’ve got no intentions of long term co-sleeping with him.

Would formula feeding before bed or at the 4am eliminate this? I eventually want to move to combi feeding, so wouldn’t be against trying it that.

Sounds like a growth spurt! We went through a few every few weeks with DS.

It does calm down eventually! But everything with babies is a phase that eventually passes.

Formula might not eliminate it, some babies formula vs breast makes no difference to how they sleep.

If he's cluster feeding it's an indication that he's trying to up your supply, as exhausting as it is, I'd try and ride it out if you want to EBF. If you can, get yourselves into the safe c position and see if you can doze off whilst he feeds.

Good luck op, hope it passes soon for you!

Thank you for your kind reply! He’s been up hourly in the night and still wanting a feed on and off from 4 but it’s slowly getting better.

Definitely outgrowing everything so I assume just growth spurt induced! Haven’t gone to formula yet so all going well.

It sounds like the start of the 4 month sleep regression and is due to him going into a phase of light sleep and wanting to be fed back to sleep rather than actual hunger.