DS2 is 16 weeks today. Up until he was about 12 weeks he would wake once during the night for a feed, normally around 4am although once at 5:30am!
Since the 12 week mark, he's been waking at 2 or 3am then again at 5 or 6am before waking for the day at 7ish.
He feeds (bf) around 3 hourly all through the day (7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 6:30pm) then has a bottle at 10:30pm. Initially this was ebm but now is formula in the hope that it bought me another hour at night.
He's had a cold for what feels like forever but is probably around 4 weeks. It was easing but then he had his jabs and so the snuffles came back. This seems to wake him at 5am as he can't breathe properly.
The last week we've moved to 2 hourly, and now he wakes almost hourly from about 3am.
He's 16lb and sits on the 75th centile.
Any advice, tips for more sleep, hand holding gratefully recieved. I am really feeling the sleep deprivation as DS1 is 4 and so I don't get chance to catch up in the day. I feed laying down at night to rest, but am wondering if this means he's not feeding as efficiently? He drains a side in 5 mins and is never interested in the other side. He follows his line though so presume he's getting enough.
Sorry, long waffle .. thanks for listening. I enjoy bf so don't want to give up but am finding this really hard. I only managed 12 weeks with DD and 4 weeks with DS1 so this is all a bit of a shock.