5 week old night feed questions??!!

[dmills]

Our five week old dd is all over the place with her night time feeds.  Some nights she will go 5 to 7 hours inbetween feeds and other nights, like last night she was up after 3 hours and then 2 hours. Is this normal and when should a pattern arise?  I will add that she has some nights were she has colic issues and may not go down until later...those seem to be the nights that she sleeps longer periods.  Any ideas or thoughts?

[*Mona*]

hi

can you post your daily routine? how often does she have those colicky issues? how are you feeding her? and are you sure it's always hunger when she wakes?
sorry for questions instead of replies, but it would help if you could answer.

[dmills]

That is part of the problem.  When she goes down early, no colic issues, then she has a different wake up time and etc... then when she is colicy until midnight or so. Therefore, the times are different each day, but I do the EASY best as I can.  I am bottle feeding her and I make sure to wake her to feed every 3 hours if she is down.  A good day is an hour of A and then a 2 hour nap.  However, every so often the 40 minute bug strikes and throws us off.  She will do that every so often.  Any ideas why she would wake after 40 minutes some naps/days and not others?

[Wink's Marmy]

Just wanted to comment on the erratic night feedings. DD has been erratic in her sleeping since she was 4 or 5 weeks old. She has just recently started sleeping through the night about 50 % of the time. We never knew/know how long she will go. From about 5 weeks to 3.5 months, she would sometimes wake every 3 hrs, sometimes not at all, sometimes once. It was ALWAYS different with no patterns. I kept a log and charted nights & came up with graphs & everything, and could find no consistancy! Just wanted to let you know that I think its entirely normal for some babies to behave like this!! And the short nap thing is normal too. One of the mods can better explain, but around 45 min. is when they hit the end of a cycle & they often wake at this point, rather than transition to the next sleep cycle. We have had lots of experience with these naps. Check the nap board in sleep for more help!

[Jack and Cians mum]

I found that when my DS2 was younger he would sleep erratically but now he seems to have settled inot a pattern.  He will go down around 8 every night and will wake at around 4/5.  If he wakes earlier say round 2am and i feed him, i can guarentee that he will wake again around 5 for a feed and when i feed him at 4/5, he will wake at around 7/8.

With regards to the short naps, my DS2 will wake after 45 mins at his first nap of the morning but then the other naps during the day he can go for 1.5/2 hours with no waking.  Why its always the first i dont know.

She will find her own pattern and it will probably come just like that.  At the moment, she is too young i think to form a pattern.  Mine only did from 8 weeks old.  I agree with Jennifer that some babies are just like that but its great that you can get a good stretch when she is so young.

Your doing a great job.

Tracey