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12 wo not sleeping more than 2 hours between feeds

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Tryingtobenice · 20/08/2012 12:57

Aaarg ebf baby on 3 hour cycle 24 hours a day.
She's 12 weeks on weds and her pattern at night is roughly:
Bedtime routine starts about 7.30 and down by about 8.30, often quicker.
dreamfeed at 10 (if she doesn't wake demanding food before then)
waking to feed 1-2 then again around 4 or 5. Yesterday to add insult to injury she woke again at 6.30 and fed til 7 then decided it was morning at 8.15.
So basically she is on the same 3 hour cycle, 24 hours! She's a total sweetie and very cute about it but it will kill me if she doesn't go longer soon!

She feeds for almost an hour each time so isn't snacking. Last night for the first time I got her to drink some expressed milk from a bottle while she was asleep so I plan to express more today and try the same tonight to tank her up. I'm also working on self settling but she really does seem famished when she wakes up in the night. Any ideas welcome.....

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Trazzletoes · 20/08/2012 12:59

How long has this been going on for? If only a couple of days then I would say its the dreaded 12 week growth spurt. If its been happening always I'm not so sure...

Tryingtobenice · 20/08/2012 13:08

This has been the routine for a while. It got a bit better a couple of weeks back but that didn't last.

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Raspberrysorbet · 20/08/2012 14:38

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Tryingtobenice · 20/08/2012 17:25

Thanks Rapberry. Though another 3 months of this sounds horrible. Today she seems to be on a growth spurt and is upping feeds to 2 hourly. Maybe after the 12 week spurt she'll be a transformed sleepyhead...

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Tryingtobenice · 20/08/2012 18:56

Thanks Rapberry. Though another 3 months of this sounds horrible. Today she seems to be on a growth spurt and is upping feeds to 2 hourly. Maybe after the 12 week spurt she'll be a transformed sleepyhead...

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