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frustrated-advice please

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The last couple of days DD has had a strange sleep/eating pattern. Actually pattern is not the right word because there is no consistency.

Used to nap every 2 hrs for one hour, then it recently turned to little 20 min cat naps. So today we skipped a nap thinking she is transitioning to taking just a couple long naps during the day. Wrong. She just barely went to sleep for the first time and its almost 5pm!  

 When she nurses, she sucks a little, then pulls away to look around or whine. Sometimes we finish a feeding, but I always feel like there is still milk in my breasts.

 Has anyone gone through this? Is it a weird growing stage or something? Advice would be greatly appreciated. TIA!

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Re: frustrated-advice please

  • diana.filipidiana.filipi member

    Sounds like a developmental growth spurt not so much a body growth spurt.  Super distractable baby Tongue Tied  I think most go through it.  It doesn't present the same way for every baby but I think most BF babies get the too interested to latch for long thing.  She won't starve - she'll nurse more at times when she is settled or at night or sometime.  The nap thing should settle down in a week or so as well.

    Good luck Stick out tongue

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  • elissa808elissa808

    DS is going through something like this too. I think they are close in age as well... My MIL watches him and the last week his naps have been NO MORE than 20 minutes but when he comes home he is cranky and naps around 5:30 or 6 for at least an hour. Plus he isnt finishing all his bottles. he can barely finish 4 oz of BM as it is and now he leaves one bottle with and ounce and another with 2 oz left (It kills me that he is wasting the milk!) So I think this is why I am pumping less at work too. I cant fill the 3 bottles. I think its because he eats less from me too!...

    SIGH! These phases they go through kill me sometimes!

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  • JandM110907JandM110907
    DD just went through something like this very similiar.  She usually takes 3 5-6oz bottles of BM when I'm away, but for a couple days, she was only taking about 12oz, then I BF'd morning and night.  Lo and behold, her appetite came back and she started sitting on her own and crawling with her belly off the floor.  Hopefully I'll remember what a developmental growth spurt is like when it happens again because I freaked myself out :/
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