Not sleeping, eating more often.. growth spurt?

[*LittleMissSummer*]

For the past week DD hasn't been sleeping during the day and then when it hits 5/6pm she gets very cranky and unsettled and takes a couple of hours to settle her.

The last 2 nights shes kept us awake by crying and whinging.. but sometimes her eyes aren't even open.

And she was feeding every 3-4 hours and now its 2.5-3.

I took her to the doctors yesterday and he said it was normal and she will settle into a routine soon. Does that sound right? Also when her measurements were done again they hadn't changed from 6 weeks so would that mean shes going to have a growth spurt soon?

Any info is appreciated

[Arimeh]

From memory, I think they usually have a growth spurt around 12 weeks, so she might be leading up to it.

Just give her lots of cuddles and she'll be right.

[*LittleMissSummer*]

Thanks

[Olive]

is she not sleeping at all during the day?? the arvo crying could be overtiredness or good old arsenic hour !

[*LittleMissSummer*]

She will drift off for maybe 15-20 mins and then wake up. I do believe that at the end of the day she is just so overtired. Before the last 2 days she would sleep all night, would sleep 6-8 hours straight now shes not sleeping at night either. She slept for 3 hours last night and was crying the rest of the night.

She's currently sleeping now. And has been for i guess 3 hours. But today she had one 1 hour sleep and was awake for the rest.

[Olive]

id say this is mostly related to being overtired, can you try and resettle after that first sleep cycle?? do it now while shes younger as it will get harder, or go in at the 10 min mark and gently pat her as she stirs to try and get her to go into the next sleep cycle

[Miss E]

I remember with DS his sleep changed dramatically at around the 2 month mark (and lots of my friends little ones have too). I think at that stage they're becoming so much more alert and taking in so much more of the world, that they don't want to sleep because the world around them is so intriguing. It's around this time that they start seeing colours, are able to focus and properly look at things that aren't 20cms in front of them, really start taking people in etc. Mind you, I can't quite remember how we got through it... I'm pretty sure that at that time it was when he stopped self settling, so we started rocking him to sleep during the day and just generally doing whatever we had to to help him get the sleep he needed during the day - if he slept well during the day, he slept well at night iykwim? Anyway HTH and you manage to get a good nights sleep tonight...