**advice needed** dd 16 weeks & now starting to wake in the night

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DD is 16 weeks and from about 5-6 weeks has been sleeping very well during the night. She has been sleeping following her last night feed through from 8/9pm until 8/9am.
Suddenly things have changed. Fri/sat & sun she woke at earlier 6/6.30am which was fine but & sunday & monday night she has woke during the night.

Sunday night: dd woke at 4.00am & wouldn't go off like she usually does with her dummy, I ended up giving her a bottle at 4.30am. She then went straight down till about 7.30am.

Monday night: dd woke at 2am and she thrutched & slept etc till about 4am. I didn't want to give into a bottle so changed her nappy & put her back to bed. She slept till about 6.00 and thrutched about again till I gave her a bottle.

She seems to have her dummy for minutes, spits it out and moans and won't settle...She hasn't cried..thing is because its dark I can't see if she is awake! I don't want to put the light on just in case!!

I have started to wean her and sunday/monday today I have given her 3 small meals 9just in case she needs filling up), she is also on x2 bf & x3 8oz bottles (the last 2 days it's been x4!!)

What can I do, am I dong anything wrong..? I'm shattered and she is still awake now...I can't see/feel any teeth but have given her some gel "just in case"..

Advice would be appreciated.

someone must be able to advise me..???

BUMP

She sounds hungry to me - when does she have her last feed?? Why don't you want to feed her when she wakes? Does she settle happily when she does have a feed? Alternatively she could be teething - my DD had her first tooth at 4months. Is she drooling with red cheeks during the day??

It could always be a growth spurt - can't remember when they are supposed to do this....too long ago! Why not try feeding her & put her straight back down?

I have the same problem - see thread "help - 5 minute feeds and no sleep!". Mumsnetters were really helpful.

Shhh, my DS is 5.5 months now but went through a similar thing at approx. 16 weeks. Started waking earlier in the night at about 1.00am (still wasn't sleeping through by then) and then again at 5.00am. Had a feed both times and went straight back to sleep. Didn't worry about feeding as we were on holiday at the time and he was sharing a room with DD so didn't want her to wake up.

When I shared this story with friends, seemed like loads of babies do this at this age (and also seen loads of MN threads on the same subject). It is just a growing spurt, will last a week or two and then should settle down again.

Feed him as he's almost definately hungry and don't worry that this will cause a 'bad habit'. My DS settled back to his previous routine after about 3 weeks and shortly after that, started sleeping through from 7.00pm-6.30am.

Be careful about giving too much solids too soon as his tummy is still maturing and he may have difficulty digesting foods. I started DS at 21 weeks with just one 'meal' a day of baby rice for the first two weeks.

HTH

First foods have fewer calories than milk, so by giving her baby rice or similar, you're actually reducing her overall calorie intake.

I would skip the food and give her more milk. 16 weeks is a typical growth spurt time too.

Its a growth spurt and will be over in a week or so

May I suggest you stop the weaning though and put her back on just milk which has more calories .. start again around 26 weeks

Im with twiglett - stop the weaning and up the milk.

Snurk

My dd did the same, shes always slept but had about 3/4 weeks where she wanted a night feed, i think she was jsut having a growth spurt and needed an extra feed, i gave her the bottle she wanted because she was obviously hungry and after a few weeks she stopped and went back to the normal routine. give in for a while she will know what she wants/needs and hopefully she'l grow out of it, but make sure you still keep it calm and keep the lights off/down and dont talk to her (i dont believe in the dont make eye contact coz thats a natural connection) but just enforce its night, but if she's hungry feed her she's still very little!

did someone Snurk??