How long does the 16 week growth spurt last

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because DD;s is on course to last for a month with no signs of stopping

We had 9 nights of her waking 2 hourly, then one night where she went 4 hours, feed and then 4 hours and now back to waking 2/3 hourly at night

i offer both breasts at each feed, and sometimes 3 or 4 sides

i try to tank her up before bed but makes no difference and sometimes she wakes less than an hour into that sleep

last night, went down at 9 pm, up at 12.30 am, 3.00 am, 6.15 am and then hourly until i got her up at 9.30 am

I treat anything before 7 am as a night feed so dark and quiet

i am so tired ... am teary all the time and worried about PND, am going to see my GP on Tuesday

when she was a newborn and waking like this, i could console myself by thinking it will get better, now i am not so sure

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i think a good test re PND is asking yourself 'if i could sleep well every night, would i be ok?" if the answer is sleep will fix it, then it might just be you are utterly exhuasted

which is depressing in itself

did you ask anyone re the let down?

i wish i had a magic wand/easy answer, but there isn;t one

there is nothing wrong in getting DH to give her a bottle of expressed milk in the night so at least you can sleep a few hours

i know he has work, but you are at home with a newborn and toddler and a house to run, you are in this together

am not sure anymore about if i just got some sleep whether i would feel better

but that may be because i am so tired i can't think straight

saw a very good BFN volunteer counsellor who checked my latch - all fine and i spoke to her about the let down and she said it is fine not to feel it like in the first few days/weeks

she has advised me to feed both breasts each time as DD seemed to be happy with only one so i am doing that

DH will give a bottle and has offered but she tends to scream and really won't take it easily that if i am going to get woken up by screaming i just think i should feed her as i am awake

are you going back to the cranial osteopath?

i am really sorry you are feeling like that, you know you have my total and utter empathy and sympathy.

we went back last week and are back for a top up in a couple of weeks

she is calmer and her posture better

so that is something, she just wants feeding all the time. which is exhausting beyond belief.

i don't know what else to suggest am going to try and get to see you, just need some commitment off DH as to when he can have DCs on a tuesday.. mum & dad are coming in a few days, so hang on in there xxxx

thanks - was thinking about you coming today ...

xxx

will dust off my railcard and get it booked xxxx hang on in there x

My DS went through this at 15-17 weeks, he had slept throught the night from 7 weeks and so to be woken twice a night plus cluster feeding at 6,8,9 and 10 was utterly exhausting. BUT good news is it only lasted 2 weeks (in fact nearer 12 days I think) and then he went back to one night feed for a couple of days and then none. he is now 22 weeks and sleeping 7.30pm-8am with a night feed which I wake him for at 11pm.
So it does get better - I was considering early weaning etc but all the advice I got on here was to keep feeding and to ride it out and i'm glad I did.
Hope it gets better for you asap, I found I was a bit teary too and felt very down in the dumps but lack of sleep does that.
Good luck x

thank you for posting Heather

good to hear that things did settle down for you

oh god sorry I hope my post did not ready like a nah nah nah nah nah my baby sleeps and yours doesn't. I was trying to reassure you that it gets better.
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