Challenge of infant led BFing at night

[dusty]

Lenny your post in my other thread has really helped me cope with all this change & unsettled behaviour. DD is spending much of today sleeping in our arms. Pixie she is doing all those things. I figure it's a Wonder few Weeks! I feel for her as she's been so sheltered as I was unable to get about for ages & now we are starting to expose her to the world more & it's very overwhelming for her. Had a disasterous first mothers group today & we both came home early in tears. Thankfully fairy grandma arrives tomorrow to help out. Trying to focus on the special moments on days & nights like today.
Kmn been doing that when I can to help get me through the days.

[Kmn]

part of what may help is to put some effort in to teaching her about "daytime" - for example waking her for a feed every 3 hours during the day, taking her outside and letting her see the light and the daytime and hear the noises. Usually bubs that wake heaps at night have their "nighttime" (a big 4+ hour sleep) during the day - so turning that around can help. Don't stress the Mum's group - it happens - and over the course of the sessions it will happen to most of the Mums and Bubs there.

[onthefly]

Sounds like a very normal sleep/feed pattern. Definitely go to bed when she does and make the most of that long stretch.
And Kmn's right - all those mums and bubs will have days like that too.