Help trying to hold on so I can BLW but struggling

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MY DD is 18 weeks on Sat and has started waking two times a night... .this has been for the last two weeks or so....but some nights she sleeps through.....

I really want to hold on till 6months or a week or so short so I can do BLW but with the constant waking (and she naps no more than 20mins during the day) I am struggling to see how I can hold out past 20 weeks (the lowest the HV "suggest" Weaning).

Has anyone got any ideas on how I can get her to last a bit longer? I don't want to go down the baby rice route unless I have to?

give her more milk
and she may not sleep when you start feeding her anyway

may just be a 'blip' rather than a trend

hang ona bit, in other words

the bad news?
the food thing/sleeping through is a myth
sorry
is it a growth spurt? teething? illess? if so, should pass soon
dd has been eating solids for weeks and still wakes up loads at night

The four month growth spurt - see threads passim - it's a big 'un. It will pass.

Agree that more milk will fill her up if she's waking because she's hungry. Baby rice has very few calories, less than milk anyway.

Yep I'm afraid mine did this, I nearly cracked but held on and he started sleeping through again. Then at 6 months when I'd started weaning, his sleeping went tits up and he still hasn't gone back to sleeping through the night a month later

Food does not equal sleep, whatever HVs/your mum/the lady in the supermarket say

Well before all this started she was waking between 8am - 8:30pm, then feeding again about 11am, then again 1:30pm (between 11am - 1:30pm) then again about 4:30-5pm, then again about 7-7:30pm, she used to go to bed after last feed and sleep through, this has been since about 8 weeks.

I have tried tiring her more in the day, going swimming and other activities but seems to make no difference, she has had a cold but that has cleared up......she won't take any more milk than I am giving her, she was mixed feed until 6 weeks, and she has been on hungry baby food since 8 weeks as she was feeding every hr.

She started waking once a night at first about 4 weeks ago, now twice a night....

Ahhhh I guess i have to just hold on, its like having a new born agian but she can smile at me now which makes me melt each time

how exhausting for you... but it does sound like a growth spurt.
i've no idea if this is good advice WHATSOEVER so wait and see if anyone agrees, but hungry baby just takes longer to digest, doesn't it?

it's not like it has more calories than ordinary first milk, just different proteins.
so i'm wondering if you should try her back on normal first milk, she may be able to drink more of that and thus get more calories. does that make sense?

i must stress i never used HB milk, so it's not something i'm familiar with, i'm just thinking out loud. good for you for keeping up the mix feeding, by the way... now that i can sympathise with. what a pain in the neck.

Will try normal milk again Aitch thanks anything is worth a try!

Yeap Hungry baby milk just takes longer to digest, therefore is supposed to keep them fuller for longer

omg at least wait until someone who knows about these things comes along! remember, i'm an idiot... but it might work, i hope so anyway, the logic of it should work.

I thought I would buy a few cartons to see if it made a difference same brand so safe