Hey, just need to offload a bit. DD has started waking again at 2 am for a lovely long feed. Problem is, she won't take much during day-time feeds. The past month has been an ongoing saga of breast refusal, teething & fast feeds, which I was stressed about but came to terms with.

I don't really mind fast feeds (3 min max for many feeds!?!) in themselves, but am not impressed about the lengthy 2 am thing - she's now 16 weeks, and has been going from a dream-feed to 4 / 5 am for ages now (yes, I should count my blessings), but I'm just so stressed by the 2 am thing that I can't sleep when I go to bed myself. Last night stayed up & cleaned the house. Didn't get back to bed til 8 this morning after her next feed. Sounds crazy I know, but by the time the feed takes forever, and I'm starving, so I eat, then I'm awake - feeling about as good as at any other time of the day (not that good) so I figure might as well do something useful as go back to bed & lie there feeling crappy & frustrated.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I feel so tired as it is (I seem to need more sleep than the average human, so this newborn thing has been pretty wearing).

I've been trying to wake her to feed her while she's still drowsy, but she's also not been sleeping properly - feels like a descent into chaos from a bub who was quite settled initially. Am feeding in dark room, before she's fully awake to try to reduce distractions.

I know I'm way over-reacting but I thought things started to get a little easier at some point soon. Feel like we're going backwards here & don't have much patience left.