ok so now shes feeding every hour...

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I posted a few weeks ago about exclusively breast fed off the chart DD feeding every 1.5 to 2 hours and you were all fab. We are still going...now at 24 weeks.

I am about to drop with exhaustion though. She is now feeding every hour. To be fair she got her first tooth this week and I think the sucking is for comfort too (the suck pattern changes when she is just comfort sucking and it really irritates me I dont know why!). Do they have another big growth spurt before they go onto solids?

Last night I went to bed late as was studying - must have been about 1 ish and was up at 7. She fed NINE times in those six hours. I cannot soothe her any other way - she can settle herself and will often go to sleep all by herself in the day so its not that she cant settle herself just that she wants that comfort. Which I want to give...but seriously?!

Anyway Im not quite sure what the point of this post is other than to rant lol. Happy cluster feeding time of evening everyone

Axxxxx

Have you tried giving her some calpol? If she's just cut one tooth she may have another on the way.

Have tried that one (most of it spat back out over me). She just wants to sleep with my nipple in her mouth. Is quite amusing on one level really - if you watch her in her sleep she suddenly realises its gone and starts rooting madly for it whilst half asleep. But will she have a dummy? No - far too easy lol.

Calpol tastes bloody awful - neurofen tastes much nicer and is less spittable IME.

DD did this when I was at this point in pregnancy and when I asked her why (she was starting to talk) she conveyed - by going and fetching it - that my milk had started to taste like ice cream and she liked it!

It will get better! Well done for keeping going!

I'm feeding ds (18 weeks) pretty much every hour day and night too, and most of them are good big feeds. Feel free to come and join us on the 4/5 month old sleep thread for a moan! Will go find you a link.

It does end, I promise!

Months 4-6 DS fed constantly, 6-10 times during the night, if I could get him off the boob between times that is!
I'll tell you what we did.
Raised the head-end of the cot.
Put him in long-sleeved vests. (It was October and getting cold)
Put him in his own room. (I think we were waking him up)
Started weaning. (He was 26 weeks!)
Plus we'd been working on a bedtime routine.

But in the end, I think he just grew out of it!

(He still wakes at least once a night, but anything is better than that 10 times a night!)

Best of luck!

PMSL! Perhaps all that chocolate I have been eating is flavouring things too much and she has chocolate milkshake on tap.

Am off to taste test several different child painkillers we have lurking in the cupboard...

Here you go.

Thank you. I am desperately holding out for some kind of miracle in 2 weeks I think. I did try putting her in her own room - she woke less often but still every 2 hours and in the end I decided every hour in bed with me was better than every 2 traipsing around in the cold.

Swear little madam knows what shes doing too - she looks very smug about it all

thanks cantsleep xx

I had this with DS as well - it was harder than when he was newborn in some ways.

Repeat ad infinitum 'it will pass, it will pass...'

Don't expect the addition of food to make a difference overnight. DS fell asleep in the middle of his dinner the first day we gave him a meal to have a go at, I think the whole experience was very overwhelming for him! 4 weeks on and he is now down to 1/2 night wakings only, but he still feeds a lot during the day - anywhere between 5 and 9 feeds.

Could she be cold during the night? I would also recommend starting to move her to her own room as this made a real difference for us, we were definitely disturbing DS.