DD so very unsettled....

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Veronica, you poor thing! I remember how hard it was to know whether Natalie had had enough to drink... I agree with Shell, the wet nappies are the best way for you to tell if she's getting enough.
I can't really remember what we used to do... But I know around this time of night it was always a battle. We did get into a pattern after a while, but there was always a couple of hours of rocking and dancing around with her while she cried, then she'd finally settle.
I did find it reassuring to give Natalie a bottle of EBM before I went to bed. The idea was that DH could give it if he wanted, but he really never did. I gave it for a few weeks until I felt confident that she was taking in a good amount of milk. Our routine sort of went like this:
* Get through all the crying and get her into bed
* She would wake, sometimes only an hour later
* Keep her wrapped and feed EBM from the bottle
* Transfer to bed asleep (when I kept her wrapped, she would fall asleep sucking on the bottle... Same with the overnight feeds - if she needed a change, I'd change her, then wrap and keep her wrapped while feeding)
The first few weeks were really hard. You are doing so very well! The crying is so hard to listen to, I know... Natalie cried *a lot* for the first 6 months of her life. But try to think of it as Avaleigh just expressing herself the only way she knows how. Like, 'Oh, mum, I'm soooooo tired!' or 'Oh, mum, this feeling of milk in my belly is just so weird!' LOL, I know that's corny, but it helped me sometimes to think of it as just her way of talking to me.
Hang in there, Veronica! Hopefully that circadian rhythm will kick in soon