Weaning has ruined everything?

[Gigis]

Hi,
Dd will be 6 months in a week or so. We started weaning her about a week ago. She will have purees at lunch and dinner and drink milk for breakfast, all snack times and before bed. I thought she was getting enough but the past few days she's been a nightmare. She used to sleep about 7.30 to 4, but now there are wake ups at 11, 1, 3... it's like back to a few weeks old. I went back to work 2 weeks ago confident that she was sleeping well enough for me to function and now I'm struggling. At night when she wakes we offer her food but she only ever drinks half the bottle, so I'm wondering if she is hungry?
Any tips or ideas welcome, currently I've brought her downstairs because she's so alert and am familiarizing myself with rarely morning tv which I haven't done for months!

Could be teething? There's a development leap at 6 months it's when they start to realise that they are separate to you and can get separation anxiety. Have you tried increasing her milk through the day? Food before one is for fun apparently.

Hope you get some sleep soon 😊

Have you reduced her milk since you started giving her food? My understanding is that the milk consumption should stay the same and food is an addition. At that age, DS was getting 6-7 milk feeds per 24 hours. At 11.5 months, I have only just stopped his feed during the night and he is now on 4 milk feeds in 24 hours. I was also told by the pediatrician to give milk before all meals as the nutrients are more readily available from milk than food at this age.

Maybe the food is making her tummy a bit sore as her digestive system gets used it?

She's started nursery and I from what I can gather they give her 3 bottles over an 8 hour period and 2 pureed meals. She also has a bottle in the night, one before nursery and one when we get home before bed. I think the quantity of milk has gone down because she never seems to finish her nursery feeds so I wonder if she's full from the puree and rejects the milk, but is then hungry later?

Baby sleep can be really disrupted once you start solids. It’s a whole new experience for their digestive systems. Plus there’s a massive growth spurt at 6 months so it’s normal to need that much milk.

Honestly, I'd probably stop may be just for a week or so. Three bottles and 2 meals she's probably over fed and has a sore tummy.

It won't hurt to slow down a bit.

Feed her the botyles first, then do the purees. At least then she should have all the milk which is the most important part at the moment. Purees don't have a lot of calories

Thank you everyone this is all really helpful. It's all such a minefield, just as I thought I'd got the hang of her needs... anyway, she's now picked up a cold from nursery (I expected this) AND has started teething. So now it's impossible to tell what is disrupted sleep because of food, blocked nose or pain. Tbh it doesn't matter - there is very little sleep anyway atm!

Ooh snap, my baby caught a cold and was teething within 2 weeks iof us starting weaning! It’s rubbish isn’t it. Wind seemed to be a big problem at the beginning.
I’m sorry to say my DD, now nearly 15 months, has not really slept through since starting solids (though she’s breastfed so more likely to wake). She has got better though, less wake ups .
Hope you get some sleep soon!

Up 4 times since 10pm so far. Yesterday she woke every hour after 2am until dh took her down at 5 so I could sleep before driving to work. I feel sick with tiredness! Why don't babies have any concept of weekends?! I long for a lie in, even just to 6am.