Advice Please!

[Summer Breeze]

Hi All

I've not posted on here before but I was wondering if any of you ladies had any advice you could offer up??

My baby girl is 21 weeks old and is exclusively breastfed. A couple of months ago she got herself into a routine of sleeping from 9-8.00am with 3 naps in the day, usually for an hour each.

Over the last couple of weeks she has been waking up through the night, usually around 5am but sometimes as early as 1am. Also, when i've been putting her down for her naps she's only been going down for about 5 minutes.

She's been a little bit fussy when trying to feed her as well, she'll pull off after about 30 seconds and will keep doing this for a while until eventually she feeds properly. Also on a night she would always feed to sleep and totally zonk out but at the moment she doesnt seem to be dropping off.

I am worried that maybe she's still hungry? Could this be a sign that she's needing to get some solids already?
Or the other niggle in my head is, I'm due on my period any day now, do any of you notice any change in your milk around your cycles?

Thanks so much for reading and any advice would be really appreciated.
xx

 

[Ozzieshunni]

Sounds like a 4 month sleep regression. She's too young for solids. Hang in there. Alex is doing the same feeding thing just now. Might also be teething. It hurts their gums to suck. Try feeding right as your LO is dozing off. I find that Alex is much too interested in things to be wide awake while feeding

 

[eddjanuary10]

I remember Ihsan being exactly like this around 4.5months, I definately think its a growth spurt. I was tempted to feed solids but instead I continued to bf exclusively and after about 2weeks things were back on track! For us it was short lived and about 2weeks later my lo was feeding like there was no tomorrow again and we introduced solids (only baby rice mixed with bm) for a couple of weeks until he was nearly 7months then we started weaning properly

 

[Summer Breeze]

Thanks so much for your advice ladies. It's been about 2 weeks now so fingers crossed she will settle again soon. Thanks a lot for the reassurance, much appreciated.
xx