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XP - BF Reverse cycling - what to do (or not)?

sheryn2sheryn2
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My LO is 6 mos and reverse cycling. Before I went back to work she started eating at 7pm and again at 5am, with 1-2 paci runs overnight. This past week she's firmly wanting to eat at 7pm, 12am, 3am, 6am. During daycare (8am-6pm) she's eating 12 oz. I was hopeful that introducing cereal 2w ago would help (we're up to 2Tb after lunch, 1T after dinner), but it hasn't. For those of you who experienced something similar, did you "do" something about it, or accept it as a stage and it passed?

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Re: XP - BF Reverse cycling - what to do (or not)?

  • jlsimon56jlsimon56 member

    My LO did this when she was your LO's age.  She just went back to "normal" this past week.  Usually, she wakes 1 time at night to eat quickly and go back to bed.  Suddenly, she was waking 3-5 times per night in addition to taking her usual 12oz at daycare.  Now she is back to just the one wakeup, but surprisingly, she's only taken 2 bottles at daycare vs. three - so only 8oz.  So not only eating less at night, but also eating less at daycare.  I am not concerned (yet).  I figured it was just a growth spurt (a weird one though - usually daycare insists on more or bigger bottles when she hits a growth spurt, and they didn't think time....but the teacher who always said it doesn't work there anymore....).

    So I would say it's a phase.  It lasted maybe 2 weeks?  Two LONG weeks, haha. 

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  • sheryn2sheryn2
    jlsimon, thanks.  LOL, yes, long indeed.  OK, I'll keep the faith. Smile

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  • jlsimon56jlsimon56 member

    I was just looking at the times your LO is waking and mine was also waking every 3 hours like that.  Weird!  God speed these next two weeks, haha.  

    (It did wonders for my supply, so there's that silver lining.) 

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  • desdemona39desdemona39
    My LO started reverse cycling when I went back to work at 3months. She nurses like crazy in the evenings and eats 2-3x overnight. I thought it was a phase, but it wasn't. Around 6-7 months. I stopped responding to the pump as well, and if she wasn't reverse cycling, we would definitely have had to supplement with formula by now, so I look at it as a blessing. I can nurse her and get her back to sleep in under 15 minutes now, so it isn't that bad.
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