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SLEEP => Night Wakings => Topic started by: PaolaG on November 14, 2005, 09:45:25 am
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I am not sure what has happened, but my 3 month old, Lea, has started to wake roughly every 3 hours during the night. She was sleeping regularly for 5 hours, and occassionally for 7 hours (and once for 8 hours!). At first I thought she was just waking and we should calm her back to sleep, but now I realise she really is hungary, and so I feed her.
I do try to feed her more before she goes to bed - at 5 pm and 7pm (roughly). I hadn't been dreamfeeding, but now she stirs a bit sometime between 10.30 and midnight, so I am feeding her then. But its not making any difference. She still wakes at around 1 or 2 really hungary
So now I am thinking that she needs to eat more during the day. This probably sounds stupid, but how do I do that? She is exclusively bf. at the moment she feeds roughly every 3 hours during the day.
any ideas?
thanks
Paola
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Hi there
Lea may be going through a growth spurt as she is 3 months old. Hopefully after that she will settle back. I am bf too and it can be stressful as you dont know what they are getting. I do express so I know he is getting one good feed and I also give a bottle of formula at bed time.
Fingers crossed its the growth spurt !
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Hi there,
My son is almost three months and he rarely sleeps for over 4 hours at a time. He has slept 6 hours straight only twice. When he wakes, I can literally hear his stomach growling. He's a big boy and has been growing fast, so I feel confident that it will calm down and he'll sleep longer when his growing slows a bit. As much as we don't like needing to get up so much with him, what else can you do?
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I think you can confidently say it is the 3mo growth spurt, so you need to keep offering the extra feeds & it should settle down in 2days-week at the most.