DD is on the second week of weaning, which is mostly going well - she is finishing everything up most of the time, with the odd off-day, but seems pretty keen overall. (She is 5 and a half months). We are on 3 meals a day, mainly pear, butternut squash, sweet potato, carrot,banana, with 1dsp of baby rice to add bulk at one meal.
Now I naively/optimistically thought that weaning was supposed to help with disposing of night feeding, but DD is going in the other direction.
She has had fantastic sleeping patterns before all this, feeding once a night, usually going from 7pm to around 4am, then back to sleep again, but now she has started to wake up twice, around midnight and any time between 3 and 5, still going back to sleep after that though. She feeds happily and then settles down immediately, but I am just knackered! It doesn't seem to be anything else than hunger, and I am really confused. Is this all part of her system getting used to solids? When we first started on solids, she had her first ever 12 hour sleep, and for the first week she was managing to wake up just once, so it seemed as if she was getting enough food at that point. I've upped the amount of food quite steadily, and short of introducing some formula I don't know how to get more calories into her. My own supply is definitely diminishing these days.
Is there anything I'm missing here?