Sorry its long
My 19 week old DD has always fed and slept really well and just fell into a routine of eating every 3 hours from birth and sleeping in the day for an 1.5 hours to 2 hours at a time. At 6 weeks she slept through the night 7 til 7 with a Dream Feed from my DH of expressed milk.
For a week she has been eating every 1.5 or 2 hours. In the afternoons she is eating for sometimes an hour at a time. She is not really sleeping during the day, today 3 hours in total after 3 naps. She is also waking during the night, last night from 3 until 5, then woke at 7am. Last night she fed for an hour, fussed then fed for another hour before she went back to sleep.
Tonight, after eating all afternoon, she has fed from me for another hour. I am now so tired my DH gave her a bottle of expressed milk which she downed 7oz. She slept for 15 mins before waking up screaming. I really dont think she is hungry any more. I am so tired DH has taken her for a walk in the buggy to calm her down. I know I have milk as my breasts are really heavy and I can express. I haven't today, but I did yesterday just to check milk was there.
Is this just the 4 month growth spurt? She has had growth spurts before, but it only lasted a day and didn't effect her night time sleep. My friends and Mum say to give her some solid food, but I want to wait until 26 weeks. Do I just grit my teeth and get on with it? My nipples feel sucked off today.