problems with 19wk dd waking in the night could it be teething?

[mazzap]

any ideas, i am having problems with my dd waking up in the night,

she had been sleeping though about 4 weeks ago and then we went back to the uk, which upset her sleep a bit she work up once earlier than usual at about 4am. Now she is waking up at 11pm and then at 4am. We tried doing the 10pm feed but it didn't appear to make much difference, At the mo i feed her at 5pm then at 6pm putting her down at 7pm or before if she looks like she has fallen asleep, or in the past i have put her to sleep when she is still awake and she has settled herself?
I am feeding her when she wakes up in the middle of the night, as I am still breast feeding and am back at work and I don't think she is taking much during the day from the bottle. Thanks

mazzap I'm having the same with my DS, also 19 weeks. He was sleeping through at 14 weeks most nights (11-7), then had a growth spurt at 16 weeks and was up at 3/4am every night for a week, then went back to sleeping till 6am but last 2 nights woke twice between 11pm and 7am for feeds.

Interested in your responses!!

Mazzap, it's quite common for BF babies who are separated from their mums during the day to not take a lot in via bottle and then make up for it when mum is available (I think of it as the same as the difference between canned and fresh )

Alternatively there is a lot of growing going on, both physically and developmentally around this age and babies can be fussier, sleep less, eat much more.

My DS is 20 weeks and went through a few weeks from 16-19 where he was feeding three and often four times in the night where before it had been once, maybe twice. He is thankfully back to something like normal, but I'm sure it'll happen again on the next growth spurt.

4 month sleep regression I'm afraid - look in the sleep topic for a thread with about 300 posts on it that was created about 6 weeks ago. Many 'good sleepers' become horrors at 4 months. It will pass but for now, wallow in other people's sleep pain on the thread I mentioned above

Just want to reiterate...

• growth spurt
• reverse cycling (my DS refused to eat entirely unless it was from me)
• the world getting too interesting to eat when awake (DS wouldn't even nurse on my lunch breaks because he wanted to play!)
• gross motor development interrupting sleep

possibly even teething...