Day and night confusion

[Lottielb]

I'm after some advice or even reassurance! My eight week old DD is still waking every 90mins/2hr in the night. This would be fine but she is able to sleep for four hours in the day now. She is breastfed and goes longer between feeds and more quality longer feeds in the day but this doesn't happen at night. Any advice how I can swap this round or even when it ended for you?

Forgot to say I had one night about a week ago where she slept for seven hours straight from 8.30-3-30 am but I can't remember doing anything different that day.

Sounds like a growth spurt; milk is fattier at night and the more your breasts are stimulated the more they produce.

You could try offering both sides with breast compressions - dr Jack Newman has lots of advice and YouTube videos on this, they can nod off without a full feed.

To be honest every 2 hours sounds very normal at that age.

Thanks, I'll look it up. It would be ideal if I could swap it round so she went 2hrs between feeds in the day and 4hrs at night but I'm sure it'll come.

Go out in day and make it loud and bright. Dark and quiet at night. Controversial but wake her after two hours sleeping in day to feed her...

This is really normal newborn behaviour! Things will settle down a bit soon.