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Infant feeding

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Liz79 · 18/05/2008 15:11

We had a brilliant bed time routine going with our 5mo DD but the last week or two she has been awful and refuses to go to sleep at her bed time. I get her washed and into PJs and sleeping bag and feed her, and all is happy and well. I put her down and when I walk out the room she cries, or when I get down stairs. We are used to her grumbling a bit before she goes asleep but now she does full blown screaming melt down. She has thrush which seemt to be getting better, and her first 2 teeth came through 2-3 weeks ago. We go and check the nappy and its fine and she stops crying if you pick her up and starts again when we leave her. I try and feed her and she refuses. so we try again. She carries on screaming, the next time she will feed, probably to sleep. why didn't she just feed in the first place? She isn't feeding brilliantly, this got better after a few days of thrush medicine but has deteriorated again. We don't know whether to try weaning her, we wanted to wait to 6m (she only turned 5 yesterday). I don't know what to do. I don't know if its a sleep problem or a feeding problem. She isn't feeding brilliantly but then she can be perfectly happy, although starting to get tired, until we put her to bed.

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Liz79 · 18/05/2008 17:58

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frauster · 18/05/2008 18:06

Has the thrush cleared properly - as in no white left on the tongue? I'm no expert but, this can cause real problems with feeding and seemed to make my DD generally upset and out of sorts. If you are BF, you may have it on your nipples, did you treat these too?

BWMum · 18/05/2008 18:07

I don't have any experience of this but thought I'd bump for you. You could also try posting on the sleep thread?

I have heard that sleep gets a bit hit and miss around 4/5 months with teething and other milestones. About two weeks ago my DD (4.5 months) went through a phase of screaming blue murder whenever I put her to bed, although perfectly happy until she touched the mattress. I have been persevering with the "shh pat" method from the Baby Whisperer which is working slowly - but she's not hungry, whereas sounds like yours might be.

bunnyrabbit · 18/05/2008 19:04

No expert, but if she is hungry then surely she would still be upset after you picked her up? No doubt that after fretting for a little while she will be hungry, but that doesn't mean she was to begin with.

Is it worth using a sleep 'method' as suggested by BWMum? I used pick up put down with DS1 and it worked really well as he knew I was there and I didn't fret about leaving him alone to cry.

BR

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