She also has been waking a lot more through the night - like 3-4 times. Taking 2 feeds per night and other times going back off with me re-plugging (giving her back her dummy).Needless to say, I've been quite tired!! She has also decreased her daytime nuring dramatically over the past 2 weeks. I have been using the Annabel Karmel sample food routine for a while now - it states solids to be given at mealtimes with water/juice and milk/BF to be given at naptimes. I've found that Kirsty has been too tired to nurse before a nap and therefore hasn't been getting much milk at all. She has become a very distracted nurser - she will latch on, suck a few times, unlatch to look about and so on. And has started nipping my breast skin whilst nursing - very painful indeed!!!
Yesterday she fed a lot more & better, I also gave her an extra feed at 6:15pm. Last night she went to bed at around 7:30/7:45pm... she gave one small cry at 10:30pm but didn't wake up... I heard her babble twice at around 4:30am (or 5:30am?! very early!) but she obviously found her dummy and went back to sleep... until 6:30am!!! So she slept all night!!! WOW!!!
Soooo, today I decided to change her routine a bit. We did BFs at 7am, 11am, 3pm, 6:15pm. And solids at 8am, 12:30pm and 5pm. I'm hoping to continue this and fingers crossed it will help with the nighttime sleeping. Today with the 11am feed, I offered Kirsty 3oz of my milk in a bottle and she drank it! I'm hopeful she will continue this if offered at the same time each day!
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