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September 2014 Moms
rose913
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Never ending cycle... Help!
rose913
member
We have somehow gotten ourselves stuck in a never ending cycle and I have no idea how to fix it.
My LO won't sleep because she is hungry.... But she won't eat because she is too tired!!!
We are on day 3 of this horrible cycle! All of the sudden my LO won't sleep more than 10-20 mins at a time. When I go in and pick her up she instantly falls back asleep if I put her down, she wants up, even if I hold her she wakes up and complains and then falls back to sleep. She is always hungry because when it comes time to eat she passes out and doesn't finish her meals.
This is continuing at night as well, she has started waking up ever 2-3 hours but falls asleep before she finishes eating. She had been pretty consistently waking up every 4-5 hours at night.
By the time my husband got home yesterday I was in tears, and now we are only half way through the day and my tears have already started.
Anyone else experience anything like this? Or have any advice?
My LO won't sleep because she is hungry.... But she won't eat because she is too tired!!!
We are on day 3 of this horrible cycle! All of the sudden my LO won't sleep more than 10-20 mins at a time. When I go in and pick her up she instantly falls back asleep if I put her down, she wants up, even if I hold her she wakes up and complains and then falls back to sleep. She is always hungry because when it comes time to eat she passes out and doesn't finish her meals.
This is continuing at night as well, she has started waking up ever 2-3 hours but falls asleep before she finishes eating. She had been pretty consistently waking up every 4-5 hours at night.
By the time my husband got home yesterday I was in tears, and now we are only half way through the day and my tears have already started.
Anyone else experience anything like this? Or have any advice?
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Re: Never ending cycle... Help!
It sounds like a combination of cluster feeding and clingyness. I totally understand your frustration! It will pass though. If you have a baby carrier definitely use it so you can move around. Reach out for help if you can too, just having someone else hold her for awhile can really save your sanity.
She is 7 weeks.
She finally gave in and nursed then downed a huge bottle and crashed, been sleeping for about a hour!
I am thinking it is a mix of growth spurt and mental leap, she was also a content happy baby until about a week ago and it was like a switch flipped! Which makes it even harder because I felt like we were on such a good schedule!