DD is 21 weeks old and has always fed little and often throughout the day - she has expressed breastmilk, around 3-4 oz every 2-3 hours. She was napping well by day and sleeping more or less from 7 till 7 with just a dream feed at midnight.
This last week she has started waking every 2-3 hours throughout the night and is having a bottle of breastmilk each time. She sits at the high chair at mealtimes and looks on longingly. BUT... I don't want to wean her. I want to do baby-led weaning and really do want to wait till 26 weeks.
My first 2 children never slept and in fact still don't now really at 5 and 3. The fact that dd3 was sleeping was more or less the only thing keeping me going. I don't know what to do - am even considering a big fat bottle of that horrible sounding bedtime formula because I can't cope with this constant hunger and me not being able to keep her sustained for long enough to get some sleep.
I have tried to give her more milk in each bottle but she really won't take more at a time. I know there are loads of people out there thinking that some babies have never slept well at this age and I should be grateful for what I had. I get this but feel like this is really harming me, I have two other dd's with health issues and I have hypertension which has got worse since all these nights of broken sleep.
Any ideas?