anyone want to join me in a growth spurt support thread?

[TigerFeet]

one handed typing only

i need a wee but i have not yet recovered from the wailing that ensued when i dared to put her down long enough to make myself a butty and refill my water bottle

not looking forward to tonight... last time she did this she woke 5 or 6 times a night for a feed instead of the usual one or two

can anyone enlighten me as to the usual ages for growth spurts? when will they stop?

dd2 is 18 weeks old. not many left now, surely?

I dunno Ds is 7.5 months and he is having a monster growth spurt at the mo. Think teeth are complicating matters though. I think kelly mom has a rough list must check.

Hope she fills up soon 16-18 weeks was particularly ferocious as I recall

ferocious lol yes that's a very apt description

just back from school run and she is latched on again

kellymom (forgot about that site so thanks for the reminder ) reckons on
7-10 days
2-3 weeks
4-6 weeks
3 months
4 months
6 months
9 months
as a rough guide but obv different babies do it at different times

i reckon dd2 may be teething too - one red cheek, chewing fists and drooling, i keep telling her she's too little for teeth but she ain't listening

Haha I was going to post a 'please tell me the 4 month growth spurt ends' thread!

My S is 18 weeks today and has been fairly voracious for the last week or so.

Had to wrestle him at baby group today - decided he was hungry 5 minutes in, then wanted to smile and try to look around instead of feeding. He only took a wee bit, so was wailing by the end of the hour and had to be taken home quickly for further guzzling.

Apparently they feel the teeth well before they come in, I have had my fingers severely gummed a lot recently so just bought him some stuff to chew on.

dd is 18wks and although the feeding is still fine her sleep has become a nightmare - I'm hoping it's a growth spurt too

oh yes, feeding in public... i tried to feed her whilst out and about yesterday and she kept breaking off and looking around, i had to find a quiet corner of a department store to feed her in, not because of any misplaced sense of modesty, but because she wouldn't bloodly well stay latched on if anyone so much as looked at her, she kept letting go, smiling, then squawking because she was still hungry

teeth definitely moving around, it'll probably be weeks before they make an appearance won't it? she has stuff to chew on, like my nipple

dd2 is also 18 weeks today jaggythistle - obviously a prime growth spurt age

stealth - last growth spurt was a couple of weeks ago. she went from feeding once or twice between 10pm and 7am to almost hourly, for about 4 or 5 nights, then back to normal. i reckon i'm in for a few more nights of it if today's anything to go by

I have a 6 month old 27 weeks who is constantly on the breast- I'm either feeding her solids/ breast feeding/ clearing up mess from her high chair.

I need a break- she wont nap in the day unless she's breast feeding (in her sleep)

I really feel down about it today- I can't stop eating and I'm starting to resent Bfeeding (stupid I know but I feel like my breast in a chain attatched to the baby)

And I usually love breast feeding

the baby group was really busy and loud, so he couldn't concentrate at all. I was quite jealous of the lady with the 3 week old having a nice quiet feed at the other side of the room!

However I just had an outing to the supermarket where he dozed off in the trolley, still asleep now so I am getting a break. No doubt the very act of typing this will wake him up though...

He had about 3 feeds before we got out the door so it must have tired him out.

His sleep has been going wonky for a few weeks, when he got his 16 week jags he forgot how to go to sleep before midnight for 4 days

Ah, guess who is now cuddled into my shoulder while I type one handed. Not quite fully awake yet though... just started drooling on the front of my top, I can take a hint.

MrsVidic
How long has she been feeding like this for?

It is really, really wearying I know.

Is she your only child?

I find that giving in to the inevitable really works - instead of getting stressed about how much isn't getting done other than somehow inserting nutrition into a baby (my washing pile is ever growing and I really need to change everyone's bedding) - I make a positive decision to let it go for now until I get a bit of respite and resolve to deal with it then.

Have a chippy tea

Make sure you are well hydrated it's easy to forget to drink enough when all this is going on.

Call in favours wrt shopping, older child wrangling and so forth

brb, squawking baby...

right, baby latched on (you will note decline in typing accuracy)

whatever you do, don't attempt to steam fresh veg for older dc, baby will cry, you will feed and forget said veg, and will spend precious non feeding time scouring a pan with a brillo pad. ahem.

instead, open a can of beans and shove a slice of bread in the toaster.

the trick to coping with a growth spurt is essentially to lower your standards

thanks Tiger- she's been like this for 2 weeks (just got over a vomiting virus which landed her in hospital on a drip for 3 days) so she's growing and putting the weight back on.

luckily she slept through last night and generally doesn't feed through the night but its still wearing.

my dp has ben fab though- he does all cleaning and laundry and has looked after her while I've been for a run a few times

Oh no - dd1 had a similar thing when she was about 18mo, 2 nights in hospital, but she had been weaned off the breast for a few months at that point so the fallout afterwards wasn't such hard work

glad you are getting some time to yourself

you are doing really well to keep going under such trying circumstances

andthistooshallpassandthistooshallpass...

I'll join, especially if I can have a chippy tea.

mini-blinder is 19 weeks and seems to be coming out of the growth spurt for a couple of nights. Last week there were 6 / 7 wakings per night: this week 2 / 3.

Tonight will obviously be hell .

hello blinder

what's yer poison? cod'n'chips or are you more of a battered sausage type of gal?

being from oop north i am rather fond of chips and gravy myself, i like a meat and potato pie with it but they don't sell those in chippies round here

dd2 was growth spurting a couple of weeks ago and is doing so again... i am wondering if it one long growth spurt with a bit of night time respite in the middle or two separate ones? not that it matters really, the end result is still the same.

she is always a good feeder during the day anyway, she rarely naps during the day unless i take her out (which i have to for school run so she naps then)

atm she is feeding for longer (still on breast from earlier post half an hour ago) with much shorter breaks between feeds

I did indeed curse him awake by saying he was asleep.

He then attached himself for about 40 minutes and has been sleeping it off in the bouncy chair ever since.

I think we will go to the supermarket more often if it chills him out this much.

He has been up about 4/5 times a night (between 10 and 7) for the last few weeks, after the brief couple of weeks where he only woke up once between those times.

I have decided not to stress and just go with it, he did eventually calm down after other feeding frenzies. It didn't seem to help that he had a nasty cold for a few days at the same time as the jabs, he was off his food a little bit so may have been making up for it since!

shall we reconvene in the morning and do competitive tiredness compare notes?

am not expecting more than a couple of hours at a time if today's anything to go by

here's hoping i am wrong

Hi TigerFeet! I'll have currysauce, chips (lots of salt n vinegar), and a chicken pastie. I made my first corned beef pie the other day so I'll dish you up a slice.

Since I posted dd has required constant suckling to keep napping.

Why did I post that things were going well?

The supermarket works for us too jaggythistle, the louder and brighter the better. Maybe I should invest in a trolley for the house, turn up the telly and put tins in the bookcase?

Come to think of it a trolley would be quite handy just to wheel him around, while doing a tiny bit of housework in between messing around on the internet. Would maybe have to be a mini trolley though

I'll have a white pudding supper please, maybe a smoked sausage on the side for extra growth spurt calories. The lovely things you get in Scottish chippies. I have never witnessed a deep fried Mars bar though

I am just happy that he has remembered how to go to sleep, at least I get to go to bed.

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i had a mars bar toastie once, back in my student days

mmm carbohydrates....

Wwwwwhhhhhyyyyyyy is it now taking my angel baby 45 minutes to go to sleep (with feeds, cuddles, pats, music etc), when last week we used to bathe, dress, feed and quick cuddle, lay him in his cot awake at 7pm and he would silently drift off to sleep by himself

He would have a dreamfeed at 11ish then sleep through til at least 6am, now he is waking at least twice, and it isn't feed then put down and sleep, it is feed, put down, howl house down, cuddle, feed etc etc for 2 hours at a time.

Why why why?

Howdy Bratnav. It just goes to show - you can do everything 'right' and they will still throw a spanner in the works.

I just tried letting dd grizzle for a while to see if she would drop off...

Nope. Just cried enough real tears to make me feel like Big Bad Mum.

Ended up nursing her to sleep for the 5th time today [shame].

Glad you started this thread TigerFeet. Thank God it's not just me.

A mum at school who has a 7 month old swears blind it only lasted a week to 10 days with her DS, I hope so, I don't know how much more of this I can take with 3 others

Can I join...My DD is 19 weeks today, and the last few weeks have been a feeding frenzied nightmare!... She used to be sucha great sleeper too

Great to know I'm not the only one in this position! Thanks for starting the thread up TigerFeet!!