Feeling desperate. 13 week old waking every 2 hours at night.

[charliemama]

My dc3 has always been a windy (trumps like a trooper!) and consequently unsettled baby. I survived until 12 weeks with the hope this would improve. He was waking once in the night so I was coping, but finding the days hard.
The irony is since just before 12 weeks he has taken to waking every 2 hours at night and this often with lots of grunting and trumping. I thought it might be a growth spurt, but he seems to be able to go longer in the day between feeds.

I am getting very down and exhausted as I have 3 dcs under 5.

Has anyone had the same problem, does it sort itself out?

Anyone? I know I have posted similar messages before, but I really need some hope that this will get better.

My ds1 co slept and fed evey 2 hours until at 13 weeks my hv suggested weaning him, which horrified me. However, at 13.5 weeks I cracked and then I also started using a well known routine. He did settle down and quickly stopped feeding at night (but still woke, a problem which remained until he was 11 months and we used cc). What worries me is that he was my first and I had all the time in the world to get him into a routine and could arrange life around that. But evebn so it was really hard work and stressful at times.

My dd had terrible colic, but seemed to settle naturally after about 14/15 weeks and we never had to use cc. But she never increased the number of times she woke at night. Things gradually got better and better. She slept through from about 6 months. But was only waking once from about 15/16 weeks. I weaned her sometime after 5 months.

So I am stumped why things have got worse with ds2.

I should add that previuosly ds2 was sleeping from 7:30pm unitl at least 2am sometimes longer.

It doesn't sound abnormal if that's any help - mind you DS has always been a poor sleeper. Can you co-sleep for the time being to give yourslef a bit of a break? Some babies just sleep better than others - I've tried all sorts with DS and he still wakes up, so have decided to relax and go with it for now. We co-sleep so I still feel like I get some rest even with 3-4 wakings a night.

And growth suports can upset things for quite a while. the classic time is 4 months when things frequently go to pot.

Is he feeding enough through the day? my dd was sleeping through and then recently started not going down till later and waking up at 4ish. I think she just wasn't feeding as much (too busy looking around and mucking about), so have been making a concerted effort to offer her more feeds. It seems to have worked and she is back to sleeping 8 till 7.

She is 16 weeks btw.

but as effie said, some babies just don't sleep as well. tough on the parents though, especially with other LOs to look after.

He seems to feed a lot during the day about every 2-3 hours. In the morning he will go longer but by the evening he is feeding a lot. He never feeds for long (none mine did. I think I have jet propelled boobs!!!!).

do you think its an oversupply issue and he is only getting foremilk?

i wass also advised to only use one breast each feed, then if she wanted more within a certain time to go back to that breast ensuring she was gettung hindmilk.

there are some good articles and information on Kellymom

charliemama, if you post this on the feeding boards, you may get some more advice n the feeding issues

It's normal for babies to feed a lot towards evening, I believe. Something to do with tanking up for the night.

My LO (now 28 weeks nearly) went from being an OK sleeper to dreadful at 12 weeks or so. In the last month he's finally started getting better - one or two wakings as opposed to 5 or 6. It seems very normal for their sleep patterns to go completely up the swannee at this sort of age. We've found a dream feed makes all the difference.

LO also trumped a huge amount, especially at night. This tendency has also disappeared. i think it's just an immature digestive system.