DD and I had an awful night (by her standards: I know I don't, overall, have anything much to complain about).

In the afternoon she slept for a really long time - about 3 hours. This is unusual. She has also been very "spewy" the last couple of days, not that this is particularly unusual. But I did wonder whether she had a tummyache of some sort.

After going down to bed just fine initially (around 8.30pm), from about 10pm when I got to bed she couldn't sleep for hours, kept tossing about, losing the dummy, tossing more, etc. I just kept putting the dummy back in and hoping that this time she'd settle.

Then, around 3am she started crying, and she cried on and off for a couple of hours. I have no idea what the problem was She was really distressed, and this is entirely unklike her - she's a placid, happy baby. It was awful

I fed her at 3 and at 5 and at 7.30. Normal feeds would have been at 4am and 8am (going on recent weeks). The 5am feed didn't actually seem to help much - she stopped crying for a little while, then started again. I burped her well and got one big one, but then she started crying again. Eventually she stopped the crying and went back to just tossing and turning again, before falling asleep briefly.

Now, because she rarely cries, and almost never cries with hunger (I feed her before she gets to crying, almost every time) I don't know the difference between her hungry cry and her other cries. So I don't know if hunger was the problem, in which case it's a growth spurt, or whether there was some other problem, maybe even something I should take her to the doctor for. She seems OK this morning (doesn't seem nearly as tired as I am!).

She's 12 weeks old, so presumably due for a growth spurt. I haven't noticed her having a growth spurt before. Maybe this was it.

Any suggestions? If she does it again today or tonight I'd love to be able to sort out the problem so she doesn't have to cry for so long. I really felt awful about it. The both of us getting more sleep tonight would help a whole lot, too...